Because of all the improvements that will be made to the game in 2024, the college football season of 2024 is anticipated to be one of the most thrilling in recent memory. The expanded College Football Playoff is a good place to start.
Observing how the inaugural season of the new 12-team College Football Playoff unfolds will be interesting. The days of the four-team playoffs are ended, and it will be very different now that eight additional teams qualify.
During the regular season, college football fans may finally relax a little bit. Watching your team lose a big game in the opening weeks of the season, before conference play even begins, is the worst feeling a fan can have. That’s about as depressing as it gets in the four-team playoff era. You understand that even with one loss—or, in Florida State’s case, zero—there is no assurance that you will advance. One more loss would be the final nail in the coffin. Now, power five teams that finish 10-2 ought to be secure, and some 9-3 teams might just manage it.
An extended season and more football are the other significant changes. The schedule for the 2024 playoff was just revealed by the College Football Playoff committee, and it promises to be an entertaining month. We will see 11 playoff games spaced out over the course of a month, as opposed to three games played in a week. That will be a great deal of enjoyment.
With the formation of new conferences, college football will see yet another significant upheaval this season. With the exception of Oregon State and Washington State, the Pac-12 has disbanded. Cal and Stanford joined the ACC, USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington joined the Big Ten, and Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah joined the Big 12.
However, Oklahoma and Texas are leaving the Big 12 to join the SEC, meaning that the Big 12 has lost two clubs.
All things considered, college football is about to undergo significant upheaval, which should make for an interesting season. There will be more football and more exciting games, even though not everyone likes the new arrangements. Things will look different. That’s a benefit.
Will football at LSU be able to return to the College Football Playoff?
Perhaps the greatest squad of the four-team playoff era is the LSU football team of 2019. The Tigers completed with a 15-0 record under Joe Burrow’s leadership, dominating their way to a national championship. But LSU has only qualified for the playoffs in that one season. Under head coach Brian Kelly, they have had some decent teams in the last two years, but not quite playoff caliber. It will be simpler for the Tigers to qualify this year because there will be 12 teams in the playoffs.
The goal victory total for SEC teams should be 10 victories now that 12 schools are in. It is very conceivable to qualify with fewer, even a squad that wins ten games may not make it in. On the other hand, based on the format, it appears that a club with 10 victories that plays in one of the top two conferences in college football will advance.
The SEC is full of tough opponents, thus LSU football has a difficult schedule, but their draw is respectable when compared to other teams. They do open the season with a difficult non-conference match in Las Vegas against USC, and they host another Big Ten team, UCLA, in week four (that phrase sounds strange, don’t you think?). The Tigers face Alabama and Ole Miss in conference play, but they stay away from Georgia and Texas. It’s anticipated that the Longhorns and Bulldogs will be the two greatest teams in the conference, if not the entire nation.
Many observers anticipate that some sophomores and even freshmen will gain starting positions in addition to the Tigers’ many upperclassmen who are scheduled to start the next season. In either case, certain players will need to step up if this LSU squad is going to win a lot of games the next season. Many of their more experienced players ought to provide that, but this younger youngster has the potential to be a big player for the Tigers in 2024.
Football season for spring has ended. The site for transfers has closed. June appears on the calendar. Do you understand what that implies? College football season is quickly approaching. We have survived the most difficult portion of the offseason, which began five months ago when Michigan defeated Washington in the national championship game held in Houston. Now that we have passed the halfway mark, the only thing left to do is finish with joy. The NCAA football season will begin in less than three months, and LSU football is prepared. Tigers supporters are eager to witness their squad play for the first time.