Jerry Palm preseason bowl and College Football Playoff projections for 2024

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Posted on August 15, 2024

By Jerry Palm, CBS Sports: The 2024 season will bring about major changes to the sport. Most notable, of course, is the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four to 12 teams. The format will reward the four highest-ranked conference champions with the top four seeds and byes to the quarterfinals.

Because the byes will be handed to conference champions, it’s possible the teams that earn byes will not actually be the four highest-rated teams in the final CFP Rankings.

In our CBS Sports preseason projection, only two of the top four teams, No. 1 Georgia and No. 2 Ohio State, receive byes to the quarterfinals. The other teams skipping the first round are No. 7 Utah and No. 8 Florida State, projected champions of the Big 12 and ACC, respectively.

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