While we continue to parse through the transfer portal, the lead up to the early signing period, and the upcoming bowl game for the Oregon Ducks, it’s been a great time to look forward at the next year and try to depict what the landscape might look like.
Thanks to conference realignment, the entire landscape will look drastically different a year from now, and it will culminate in the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff at the end of the year. What we’re focused on is the Big Ten, where the group of Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA will head east and join a new conference.
On Wednesday, we projected what the top of the Big Ten Conference might look like, where the Oregon Ducks will likely be competing for a top spot in the power rankings once the preseason rolls around. But when we expand that view to the national rankings, are Dan Lanning and the Ducks expected to be in as favorable of a position?
It’s tough to definitively say while the transfer portal remains so active and top-ranked players continue to find new homes, but here are our early predictions for what the top 25 will look like going into the 2024 season:
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2023 Record: 12-1
2023 CFP Ranking: 4th
Analysis: Coming off of a College Football Playoff appearance with your Heisman-contending quarterback returning, it would not at all surprise me to see Alabama take the top spot going into 2024.
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2023 Record: 13-0
2023 CFP Ranking: 1st
Analysis: Jim Harbaugh, J.J. McCarthy, and Blake Corum — if two of those three pieces return in 2024, then I think that Michigan will be near the top of the rankings, deservedly so.
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2023 Record: 12-1
2023 CFP Ranking: 6th
Analysis: We saw down the stretch in 2023 that Carson Beck was really coming into his own, and while Georgia was…
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Author : Ducks Wire
Publish date : 2023-12-14 15:02:20
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