Vols, Dawgs, Tide part of college football’s ultimate road trip for 2025
Forget about easing your way into college football this year.
The schedule includes several enticing matchups before September even starts, including a clash of ranked Big 12 teams facing off in Ireland this weekend, plus multiple top-10 showdowns.
All of these were considered in the annual attempt by The Associated Press to map out college football’s hypothetical dream road trip.
A quick review of “the rules” (OK, just two) for our journey before the 2025 season kicks off: We must see every team in the preseason AP Top 25 at least once, and travel between games must be reasonable in the time available. So that means long drives and even flights are OK, but if you’re at a night game in California, you’re not getting to Florida for an early afternoon kickoff the next day.
This season’s 17-game journey looks like this.
No. 17 Kansas State vs. No. 22 Iowa State (Aug. 23 in Dublin): The Big 12 now stretches from Arizona to West Virginia, so why not have a game in Ireland as well? The league exports the “Farmageddon” rivalry to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and in a conference that received only one College Football Playoff bid last season (despite the expansion from four berths to a dozen), any matchup of ranked teams looms large.
