These are the top-dozen college football teams in the best position to make the expanded playoff in 2024.
As the College Football Playoff is set to expand to 12 teams starting this postseason, expect there to be plenty more competition than in the last decade to contend for the national championship, and now as ESPN has released its annual preseason 134-team college football rankings, we're getting more of an idea as to what teams will actually be in the race this year.
As expected, the SEC is well-represented among the top-dozen schools, taking up a full 50 percent of the top-tier, with six teams getting the most favorable odds. The Big Ten follows with four teams, while the ACC gets two, and there's one very famous independent.Just missing the cut? LSU, Texas A&M, and Ole Miss out of the SEC, although those teams sit within the top 17, while both Kansas and Kansas State also emerged just outside the prospective playoff favorites.
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