College football coaches, players and fans get their first whiff of the 2025 season during spring practices, which are underway or coming soon to campuses around the country.

A big measure of what makes a college football team good any given year is returning experience. While not all teams are created equal and not all experience is good experience, more often than not, players get better at football by playing football.

The 2025 college football schedules are set, and it has a lot of people fired up for the 2025 season. Ohio State is coming off its first national title in a decade after beating Notre Dame in the National Championship Game and is trying to repeat when the 2025 season starts in late August.