2025 College Football All-Senior Team: Top Senior Year Players This Season

The college football season is into the second half, and already we've seen several outstanding games and standout performances by players from across the country.

While the sport has been dominated in recent years by star underclassmen who leave early for the NFL, that trend may be changing now that players can make endorsement deals and receive a share of the revenue colleges make from athletics. Those changes, along with the transfer portal, is leading to more seniors taking center stage on the gridiron.

2025 College Football All-Senior Team

With that in mind, RotoWire continues its college football betting analysis by choosing some of the top upperclassmen in college football by creating an All-Senior Team after Week 8. Any senior, redshirt or true, in the Football Bowl Subdivision is eligible.

Offense

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Starting things off for our Week 8 All-Senior Team is a man who still hasn't thrown an interception this season, with UConn senior quarterback Joe Fagnano adding another solid performance to his résumé in Chestnut Hill on Saturday. That's where the Huskies' senior QB threw for 362 yards on 23-of-31 passing, throwing for four touchdowns for a second straight week and adding a QBR of 90.4 in the team's 38-23 road win over Boston College. 

For his efforts, Fagnano earns QB1 honors on our team this week, with running backs Anthony Hankerson of Oregon State and Oregon's Noah Whittington joining him in this hypothetical backfield.  

In Hankerson's case, the senior out of Florida racked up 204 yards and four scores in the Beavers' 45-13 demolition of FCS program Lafeyette in Corvallis, giving Oregon State its first victory of 2025. The Beavers' Civil War rivals from Eugene got an equally impressive outing from Whittington, who ran for 125 yards and two scores on 11 carries in the Ducks' 56-10 road demolition of Rutgers in Piscataway, getting Oregon on the right track after falling to Indiana at home last week, 30-20. 

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At the receiver position, our Week 8 team includes Chris Bell of Louisville, who had 136 yards and two scores on nine catches in the Cardinals' 24-21 upset win over Miami on Friday, while Anthony Smith of East Carolina and Cooper Barkate of Duke rounded out the list in Week 8. 

In Smith's case, it was a matter of quality over quantity, as the senior wideout had 150 yards on four catches with two scores in the Pirates' 41-27 win over Tulsa, while Barkate had 172 yards on 13 receptions in Duke's 27-18 home loss to 12th ranked Georgia Tech.  

Rounding out the skill position group offensively this week was Cole Spence of Vanderbilt, who hauled in five catches for 56 yards and a touchdown in the Commodores' 31-24 home win over LSU on Saturday.  

Along the trenches, tackles Darrell Bailey Jr. of Georgia State and Alan Herron of Maryland were joined by guards Beau Stephens of Iowa and Wyoming's Caden Barnett, while center Broderick Roman of Southern Mississippi finished off this week's offensive unit.  

Defense

Across the line of scrimmage, the big fellas that stood out defensively in Week 8 were ends Derrick Moore of Michigan and Marques White of UMass, while tackles Luther McCoy of Hawaii and New Mexico State's Ezra Christensen also made the cut. 

Moore had three tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in Michigan's 24-7 home demolition of Washington Saturday, while White added six tackles and a sack for the Minutemen.  

McCoy finished the Rainbow Warriors' 31-19 road win over Colorado State with two tackles, 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble, while Christensen had five tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble for the Aggies against Liberty on Tuesday night.  

At the linebacker position, UConn's Bryun Parham was joined by Buffalo's Red Murdock and JonJon Vaughns of UCLA in Week 8, with Parham making 14 tackles and two sacks against BC, while Murdock had nine tackles against UMass and Vaughns added eight tackles and a fumble recovery in the Bruins' 20-17 home win over Maryland.  

In the defensive backfield, cornerbacks Jabari Mack of Louisville and California's Brent Austin were joined by safeties Tanner Wall of BYU and Iowa's Xavier Nwankpa in Week 8, with Mack making three tackles and hauling in a pick for the Cardinals, while Austin had three tackles and a forced fumble/recovery for the Golden Bears in a 21-18 home win over UNC Friday night.  

Wall had 10 tackles and an interception for the undefeated Cougars in BYU's 24-21 Holy War win over Utah Saturday, while Nwankpa finished Saturday's 25-24 win over Penn State with 10 tackles, a forced fumble and an interception.  

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Special Teams

In the special teams game, nobody did more as a senior in Week 8 than Texas kicker Mason Shipley, who made three of his five field goal attempts in the Longhorns' 16-13 overtime win in Lexington over Kentucky, moving to 11/13 on his tries this season.  

Throw in Virginia punter Daniel Sparks, who averaged 53 yards per attempt on six punts for UVA in a 22-20 home win over Washington State and Liberty returner Julian Gray, who had 130 kick return yards on three returns with a touchdown for the Flames in the team's 30-27 home over New Mexico State on Tuesday night and you have the full rundown of the top seniors from Week 8 in the FBS ranks.