The Ohio State Buckeyes ranked among the nation’s best teams among college football coaches. The Texas Longhorns were ranked No. 1 while the Buckeyes are No. 2 Penn State, Georgia, and Notre Dame rounded out the Top 5.

Ohio State is the defending national champion, though not No. 1 in the newly released preseason US LBM coaches poll.

The time has finally come for the Coaches Poll to release its preseason top 25 rankings. For the most part, Texas and Ohio State have been considered the top two programs heading into the 2025 college football season.

The Texas Longhorns will travel to Columbus in Week 1 to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. It’s college football’s most anticipated kickoff weekend showdown. Ohio State, the reigning College Football Playoff National Champions, knocked Texas out of the bracket in the semifinals last season before the Buckeyes beat Notre Dame to win it all.

With the release of the preseason US LBM Coaches Poll, Ohio State football's Week 1 game vs. Texas is officially a "Game of the Century" matchup.

This matchup was already highly anticipated after what happened in the College Football Playoff. Things have changed in a good way for that matchup, as it has now become a historic matchup. After the Coaches Poll was released,