When athletic director Trev Alberts hired Mike Elko to become the new head coach of Texas A&M on November 27, 2023, every member of the Maroon and White faithful knew the Aggies had hauled in one of college football's top recruiters.

In the past two decades of college football recruiting, only seven programs have signed a class that ranked No. 1 according to the Rivals Industry Team Rankings. Others have gotten plenty close on a number of occasions,

Week 0 of the 2025 college football season has arrived. That means, among plenty of other things, that the recruits atop the 2025 recruiting class are poised to get their first taste of regular-season action at the college level over the next month. What's in store for some of the top incoming newcomers across the country this fall?