Booger McFarland says Texas A&M is deserving of No. 1 spot in CFP ranking
By Jacob Moss
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The first College Football Playoff rankings of the 2025 season were released on Tuesday night, and they featured a total of 9 SEC squads that made the initial cut, with 6 landing inside the top 12.
The Texas A&M Aggies were the highest-ranked SEC team in the CFP ranking at No. 3, coming in just behind the Ohio State Buckeyes at No. 1 and the Indiana Hoosiers at No. 2, but ESPN analyst Booger McFarland believes that the Aggies are too low.
McFarland discussed the initial rankings on the CFP reveal show on ESPN Tuesday night alongside a panel of several other ESPN analysts, saying that Texas A&M was most deserving of the No. 1 slot.
“I think that Texas A&M’s resume, the way they’ve looked, and what they’ve done, deserves to be No. 1,” McFarland said. “I think that when you look at Indiana going on the road to Autzen (Stadium) and beating Oregon, I would even put them No. 1… Indiana and Texas A&M, I think they’ve done more so far.”
Joey Galloway also spoke up in defense of the Aggies during the discussion as well, saying that when it comes to ranking and analytics, Texas A&M has been the best team in the nation thus far.
“This tells me they’re going a lot on eye test here,” Galloway explained. “If we’re going on rankings and analytics, Texas A&M is best analytically over Indiana and Ohio State, and they’re sitting at No. 3.”
