A Look Back At The Top 25 Rankings From NCAA Football 14

Today we’ll be looking back on the top 25 ranking from the NCAA Football 14 video game that EA Sports released all the way back in 2013.

It has been an incredibly long hiatus, but there is an end in sight! EA Sports’ College Football 25 game will be released in Summer 2024.

So we thought it would be a good time to look back and see how the state of college football has changed over the past decade.

This is what the top 25 (according to NCAA Football 14) looked like back then:

1. Alabama
2. Ohio St.
3. Stanford
4. Texas A&M
5. Georgia
6. Oregon
7. Notre Dame
8. South Carolina
9. Clemson
10. Florida
11. Louisville
12. LSU
13. Oklahoma
14. Florida St.
15. Texas
16. Oklahoma St.
17. TCU
18. Boise St.
19. Michigan
20. UCLA
21. Kansas St.
22. Nebraska
23. Oregon St.
24. Northern Illinois
25. Vanderbilt

Not much has changed at the top with University of Alabama, Ohio State, and Georgia being perennial national championship contenders.

Stanford is definitely not the powerhouse that they used to be during that time period.

Oregon, Clemson, and Notre Dame are all still right up there each year in that 2nd tier of national championship contenders.

As we move down the list, South Carolina and Louisville are no longer top 15 teams.

As you get to the teams ranked 10-20th, many of them are storied football programs who have loaded rosters even during down years. Those are programs like Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Florida State, Texas, and Michigan.

Compare that top 25 to what many analysts expect the top 25 to look like heading into this next college football season:

1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Michigan
4. Alabama
5. Penn State
6. USC
7. LSU
8. Florida State
9. Washington
10. TCU
11. Utah
12. Tennessee
13. Notre Dame
14. Clemson
15. Oregon
16. Texas
17. Oregon State
18. Kansas State
19. Tulane
20. Ole Miss
21. North Carolina
22. UTSA
23. Texas Tech
24. James Madison
25. BYU

There is a lot of overlap between the 2 rankings. Georgia, Ohio State, and Alabama in the top 5, with other big time programs right behind them.

There is still an entire season of college football to be played before the new game is released so things could still change.

That being said, as much as things have changed in college football, they continue to stay the same.