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CFB Player Rank: The top 50 players in the 2025-26 playoff

Skim through the Heisman Trophy voting, and seven of the top 10 players will be on the field in this year's College Football Playoff. Our apologies to Jeremiyah Love, whom we'd love to see there, too, but that's an issue for Notre Dame and the ACC to work out.

But that list only scratches the surface of the depth of talent that will be showcased in this year's playoff. From Ohio State's wealth of riches to James Madison's band of upstarts, the 12 teams that made this year's playoff are loaded with future NFL draft picks, college stars and under-the-radar gems just waiting to become household names on the sport's biggest stage.