June 30, 2025
By Chris Hummer, CBS Sports: True freshmen have always played an outsized role in the direction of college football seasons.
College football certainly isn’t college basketball, where one-and-done players (a la Cooper Flagg) often emerge as the defining player of a season, at least since the NBA changed its eligibility rules in 2005.
But it is a sport in which first-year freshmen — the freakiest of the athletic freaks — have almost always found a way to make a huge impact.
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