The 2024 season is set to kick off tomorrow with Florida State and Georgia Tech facing off in Dublin, Ireland. The slate tomorrow also includes Montana State against New Mexico State followed by SMU against Nevada, and then Delaware State will face Hawaii late at night. The full season begins next Thursday and some of the marquee games in week one include North Carolina against Minnesota on Thursday at 8:00 PM EST, Clemson against Georgia on Saturday at Noon, Penn State at West Virginia at noon, Miami at Florida at 3:30 PM EST, Notre Dame at Texas A&M at 7:30 PM EST, USC at LSU in Las Vegas at 7:30 PM EST on Sunday, and finally the weekend will wrap up with Boston College at Florida State at 7:30 PM on Labor Day (Monday). This season will feature the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff and over the last month, the Power Four conference previews have been released; in those, the Conference Championships were predicted, and they were.
ACC: Florida State over Miami 30-28
Big 12: Utah over Oklahoma State 37-30
Big Ten: Ohio State over Oregon 34-31
SEC: Georgia over Texas 30-24
Those four teams would make the College Football Playoff as the top four seeds with eight at-large bids remaining, one of those will be for a group of five teams. Below are the predicted 2024 seedings
- Georgia Bulldogs – SEC Champion
- Ohio State Buckeyes – Big Ten Champion
- Utah Utes – Big 12 Champion
- Florida State Seminoles – ACC Champion
- Texas Longhorns – At Large Bid
- Oregon Ducks – At Large Bid
- Ole Miss Rebels – At Large Bid
- Alabama Crimson Tide – At Large Bid
- Penn State Nittany Lions – At Large Bid
- Michigan Wolverines – At Large Bid
- Miami Hurricanes – At Large Bid
- Boise State Broncos – G5 Big Bid
The first-round matchups would be
Boise State @ Texas
Miami @ Oregon
Michigan @ Ole Miss
Penn State @ Alabama
The predictions are
Texas over Boise State
Oregon over Miami
Ole Miss over Michigan
Alabama over Penn State
Leading to a second-round matchup of
Alabama vs. Georgia
Ole Miss vs. Ohio State
Oregon vs. Utah
Texas vs. Florida State
Who makes it to the final four?
Georgia over Alabama
Ohio State over Ole Miss
Oregon over Utah
Texas over Florida State
Leading us to a rematch of the Conference Championship of the SEC and the Big Ten this time the roles will be reversed.
Texas over Georgia
Oregon over Ohio State
National Championship
Oregon over Texas
The Oregon Ducks will win the National Championship behind the combination of Dillon Gabriel throwing the ball to Tez Johnson. It’ll just be slightly too much for the Texas defense who will have a nice combo in their passing game in Quinn Ewers to Isaiah Bond.
Heisman Trophy Final 3
Quarterback – Dillon Gabriel – Oregon Ducks
Quarterback – Quinn Ewers – Texas Longhorns
Running Back – Ollie Gordon – Oklahoma State Cowboys
The winner will be Dillon Gabriel who will make a statement in his first season in Oregon and lead them to a season in which they finish 11-1 in their first season in the Big Ten.
Coach of the Year: Kirby Smart – Georgia Bulldogs
The Bulldogs are expected to be the best team in the country even with their tough schedule in the revamped SEC but he will lead them to an undefeated regular season before things come to an end in the Semifinals when Texas shocks them and sends them home in the third matchup between the two teams.
