They are not who CBS Sports senior writer, Dennis Dodd has ranked as the No. 1 team in his "way-too-early" top-25. Rather, the Texas Longhorns find themselves as the nation's top team heading into the 2025 season.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press also released its final poll for the 2024 football season. Texas ranked fourth behind Ohio State, Notre Dame and Oregon. This marked the 22nd time since 1936 that the Longhorns have been a top-five team in the AP's final poll.

There’s always next year. But if Ari Wasserman and Andy Staples of On3.com are right, 2025 might be a banner year for the Horns. The two analysts have put together a “way-to-early” 2025 Top 25 and the pair lists Texas as the No. 1 team in the nation.

While the Texas Longhorns have already made some additions via the transfer portal, there could be more on the way.

Texas will be coming off a College Football Playoff semifinal appearance and looking to top a 13-3 season that ended in the Cotton Bowl. It's already been a busy 2025 for the Longhorns, with plenty of transfer portal activity and a reported new extension for head coach Steve Sarkisian.

FOX Sports' RJ Young offers up his way-too-early top 25 rankings for the 2025 college football season, with Ohio State, Texas, Michigan and Colorado all in the mix.

Is Texas poised for another appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinals? The national media certainly thinks so.