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Phil Steele's 2025 College Football Preview, National Edition

Phil Steele’s 2025 College Football Preview includes more than 350 pages of cutting-edge statistics, historical results, and positional analysis on all 136 FBS teams, along with projected starting lineups. It has proven to be the most accurate college football preview over the last 30 years.

Get in the game with our wide selection of sports books. Here you’ll find sports biographies like Jeff Fletcher’s Sho-Time and David Maraniss’s Path Lit By Lightning; memoirs by famous athletes including Open, by Andre Agassi, and The Mamba Mentality, by Kobe Bryant; as well as sports fiction like Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar series. Find a deeper understanding of sports and their connection to the world with books like Pele’s Why Soccer Matters, Woman, Captain, Rebel and Fair Play.

Discover bestsellers and new releases sorted by sport, including baseball, football, basketball, outdoor sports and more. Find books about your favorite athlete, sport, or historical sporting event today at Barnes & Noble®.

If you’re looking for books on exercise and fitness, you’ll find them in our Diet, Health & Fitness section. There, you’ll find books that reteach the basics, like Breath or Built to Move. You can invigorate your path to healing with Rehab Science or learn the depths of yoga with Living in the Light. You can also reinvent your health with nutritional guidance from books like The Blue Zones and How not to Die.

10 of the Best Sports Books to Read in 2025

Why We Love Football by Joe Posnanski
Got Your Answers by Mike Greenberg
Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O'Connor
The Boys of Riverside by Thomas Fuller
Tiger, Tiger by James Patterson
Ben Hogan's Five Lessons by Ben Hogan
Skateboard by Jonathan Olivares
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
There's Treasure Inside by Jon Collins Black
A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko

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