August 6, 2024
By Tom Fornelli, CBS Sports: The changes ahead of the 2024 season will significantly affect our perspective on the College Football Playoff race. In years past, one loss to the wrong team could wreck a contender’s national title dreams on any random Saturday from September through November. Now, that same loss might only impact a team’s playoff seeding.
The idea of one game dashing a team’s national title dreams inspired me to write about potential chaos teams five years ago, and I’ve done it every year since. While the parameters have changed in 2024, the overall premise is the same.
I look for teams that aren’t widely considered playoff contenders but have the chance to knock off somebody who is and destroy their season. Teams can survive a loss and still make the expanded College Football Playoff, but not all defeats are equal. A loss to another title contender may be forgiven. At the same time, a setback against one of these teams could prove the deciding factor between an at-large berth and pretending to be thrilled about an appearance in the Reliaquest Bowl.
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