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Season of change: Ranking the top 25 changes coming to college football in 2024 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Welcome to college football’s season of change.
Three tumultuous years filled with conference realignment, playoff expansion, and various reforms come to life in 2024.
How much is new? Enough to rank the Top 25 changes you’ll see in college football this season.
1) The College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams.
2) The national championship game will be played Jan. 20, making this the longest season in college football history. The season starts Aug. 24 with four games involving major college teams, including Georgia Tech vs. No. 10 Florida State in Dublin, Ireland.
3) Postseason games on campus. After decades of nothing but bowl games at the highest level of Division I college football, four first-round playoff games will be hosted by the higher seeds on Dec. 19 and 20.
4) The SEC adds Texas and Oklahoma.
5) The Big Ten goes West and adds USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington to become an 18-team conference.
6) The Big 12 expands to 16 teams with the additions of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
7) The ACC stretches coast-to-coast, adding SMU in Dallas and Stanford and California from the San Francisco Bay Area.
8) There is still a Pac-12, but it only has Washington State and Oregon State.
9) Washington State and Oregon State will play six games each against Mountain West schools, but they are not eligible for the conference title. Their schedules also include the annual rivalry games with Washington and Oregon, respectively, on Sept. 14.
10) Divisions are mostly a thing of the past, with the SEC and Big Ten dropping them this season. The only Bowl Subdivision conference still splitting its teams into divisions is the Sun Belt.
11) Army is joining a conference for the first time since a…
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Publish date : 2024-08-18 19:14:49
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