A key moment in the offseason is here as ESPN has revealed its preseason 136-team college football rankings, a big pile of analytics that includes, among other metrics, a preliminary strength of schedule rankings for every team in the country.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers cracked the top 25 in ESPN's first Football Power Index rankings of the 2025 season. The Huskers hold the No. 25 spot.

This is the 10th season we've ranked Power Four (nee Power Five) college football coaches at CBS Sports, and it's always interesting to follow the ebbs and flows of various reputations every year. The truth about our panel of voters is that while we cover the sport for a living and know more about "how the sausage is made" than we want to when it comes to opinions,