College Football Round-Up: June Edition

Andy Pham wraps up all the college football news you need to know from June!

Prelude

We’re into July, which means we’re over the hump of the summer doldrums and are ramping up with the last wave of freshman enrolling into their programs, and fall camp will start to ramp up next month; we are at a time when we should get excited.

The 2025 Landscape

The quarterback position is the face of each program; with success, they become the face of college football. We’ve had Caleb Williams as that face for multiple years, and Jayden Daniels made a splash this past season. Who are some potential names to take over?

LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier has been my QB1 of the 2025 class for over a year. Nussmeier has all the intangibles you want, and LSU should have another lousy defense. That means LSU must rely on Nussmeier to keep them in games and be a prominent highlight reel for the upcoming season. Nussmeier also has the charisma to become the face of college football for the season.

A trio of returning players can make a case for being the face of college football, and that starts with most people’s QB1 for the 2025 class, Georgia’s Carson Beck. Beck is in the pole position, Georgia is primed for a National Championship, and we saw Georgia go all in with moves in the portal to take advantage of a potential down year in the SEC. The favored among most to be the first quarterback taken next spring in the NFL Draft, Beck has all the reason to stake his claim to being the face of college football.

The SEC has been a theme in this conversation, and Alabama's Jalen Milroe is the next player who can become the face of college football. If Milroe succeeds in Kalen DeBoer’s system, He can be an electric playmaker and overcome the narrative that he can’t process defenses and is not a profound passer.

The final two are dark horses. Liberty’s Kaidon Salter showed himself to be a dynamic playmaker. The once top-100 recruit who got kicked out of Tennessee has been able to change his narrative and, with another successful season, can enter the portal and take over a powerhouse program in 2025. The last one could be the face of college football without even playing a single snap this season.

Tennessee’s Nico Iamaleava, with three years of eligibility and in an uptempo offense, has the potential to light up the college football scene with his ability. Oklahoma’s Jackson Arnold, an exciting player in a prominent program moving into the SEC, has the potential to lead Oklahoma to an SEC championship and become the face of college football. The final second-year player who will be taking over a program who can be the face of college football is South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers. Sellers is an exciting dual-threat quarterback with a cannon for an arm and can make defenders miss with his legs. Throw in the goggles; you have an image that college football can trademark. Texas’ Arch Manning has the name, the ability, and the smile to become the face of college football for the next three seasons. He should take over in 2025 and be in EA Sports’s NCAA Football video game.

Potential Breakouts