As the college football calendar approaches mid-October, crunch time has arrived for the top prospects in the 2025 cycle. Eight weeks out from the early signing period, only 17 prospects in the ESPN 300 remain uncommitted, including nine of the top 100.
Yet the final weeks of the cycle still promise to deliver plenty of fireworks. As Dec. 4 looms, there's a handful of elite committed prospects mulling possible flips, and college football's top programs continue to work on changing the minds of some of their rival's top pledges.
Among the nation's high-profile flip candidates are ESPN's No.