The 2024 college football season will be vastly different than any other that came before it. Conference realignment has destroyed the Pac-12 and created two super conferences – the Big Ten and SEC – that will likely control a majority of the sport going forward.
Today, though, I'm not here to talk about realignment. The bigger news for 2024 is the long-awaited implementation of a 12-team playoff, finally making good on years of hope for college football playoff expansion.'
A bigger playoff system will significantly reshape the futures portion of the college football odds market, too.'
No system is perfect, but there's a lot of good in this new model. Since 2014, fans have spent most of their college football playoff history exhausted by arguments about conference vs. conference and deserving vs. best.'