I’ve got good news for you. If you’re here, it means 2 things. Two good things.

One, it means that you’re a college football fan and we’re in August, AKA the first month of the regular season. Your “offseason” days are numbered. Soon, your Saturdays will be filled with wall-to-wall college football instead of 4 hours of basically the same show titled 8 different ways on HGTV.

Two, you’re in the exact place you need to be for the start of Top 25 Week. What’s Top 25 Week, you ask? It’s a week in which our Saturday Football team will provide daily rankings stories to get you ready for the season. A total of 28 unique Top 25 stories will be available across our 4 sites. That’s right. We have 4 sites that primarily focus on these conferences:

I know what you’re thinking. What will the coverage look like? What else can you rank besides teams and players?

Great questions. Here’s a rundown of our Top 25 Week stories that’ll run each day and where you can find them:

  • MONDAY, AUG. 7
    • Preseason Top 25 teams — All 4 sites
    • 25 burning questions about SEC — SDS
    • 25 burning questions about B1G — ST
    • 25 burning questions about ACC — SR
    • 25 burning questions about Pac-12 — SOW
    • 25 burning questions about college football — All 4 sites
  • TUESDAY, AUG. 8
    • Ranking the SEC’s Top 25 players — SDS
    • Ranking the B1G’s Top 25 players — ST
    • Ranking the ACC’s Top 25 players — SR
    • Ranking the Pac-12’s Top 25 players — SOW
    • Ranking the nation’s Top 25 QBs — All 4 sites
  • WEDNESDAY, AUG. 9
    • Ranking the nation’s Top 25 head coaches — All 4 sites
    • Ranking the Top 25 OCs in the nation — All 4 sites
    • Ranking the Top 25 DCs in the nation — All 4 sites
  • THURSDAY, AUG. 10
    • Ranking the SEC’s Top 25 newcomers — SDS
    • Ranking the ACC’s Top 25 newcomers — SR
    • Ranking the Pac-12’s Top 25 newcomers — SOW
    • Ranking the B1G’s Top 25 newcomers — ST
    • Ranking the SEC’s Top 25 NFL Draft prospects — SDS
    • Ranking the B1G’s Top 25 NFL Draft prospects — ST
    • Ranking the ACC’s Top 25 NFL Draft prospects — SR
    • Ranking the Pac-12’s Top 25 NFL Draft prospects — SOW
  • FRIDAY, AUG. 11
    • 25 bold predictions for the SEC — SDS
    • 25 bold predictions for the B1G — ST
    • 25 bold predictions for the ACC — SR
    • 25 bold predictions for the Pac-12 — SOW
  • SATURDAY, AUG. 12
    • Ranking the Top 25 games for 2023 season — All 4 sites
  • SUNDAY, AUG. 13
    • Matt Hinton’s Top 100 players for 2023 — All 4 sites

Yes, that’s a ton of content. No paywall.

Oh, and unlike some other rankings, this will actually have context instead of just ranking things and hoping to reap the benefits of social media engagement.

But I digress.

Top 25 Week is how we tell you, the reader of this column, that we appreciate you. We know the dog days of August are here. We know that you don’t really want to be sitting in your office pretending to work.

You’d rather dig into if Jayden Daniels is as good as Drake Maye or if Florida State should be ranked ahead of USC. You want to read about the Top 25 games of the year and see which Saturday gives you the most ammo to say “no, I absolutely will not be attending your fall wedding.”

This is the best way to get you, me and everyone else closer to the college football season.

No, we don’t expect you to agree with all of our rankings. If we produce any Top 25 story with a unanimous approval rating, that’d be the first of its kind in human history. We get that. Discourse is healthy, so long as you don’t tweet at any of us that you hope that the only football we watch this fall is the Iowa offense. There’s a line, and that’s crossing it.

Our goal this week is to make you the most informed and entertained college football fan possible. Our team covers this sport from coast to coast, and in my totally biased opinion, we do it as well as anybody. So sit back, relax and get ready for the best time of the college football offseason.

Top 25 Week is here.