2024: What new trends will help you cap?

I have to say that 2024 really brings in two huge changes in my opinion:

Transfer Portal in full swing AND 12 team playoff.

Rivalry Week will be moved in 2025. There will be some teams with a few Conference Title Game spots clinched. They will rest players. A Power 5 Conference winner gets a top 4 seed and a bye. 

With so many coaches moving and players moving, I believe schools with returning head coaches and returning QB play are schools to bet on. There are NOT a ton of teams with continuity in that department off the top of my head (Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas, Missouri, Utah, Penn State). I’m sure there are more. 

Quick thoughts: If Ohio State doesn’t win the Big 10 this year, I don’t think they ever will.

Can Utah finally be healthy and win the Big 12 with 12th year Senior Cam Rising and one of the best coaches in college football?

How good is Oregon in the trenches? Can sexy lefty Dillon Gabriel be Bo Nix light?

Do these 10-2 teams make their push in the new format like Penn State and Ole Miss?

Alabama at 15-1 is a nice value with DeBoer and Milroe. I know that goes against my returning QB and Coach comment, but I think they provide the best value. 

@Moose1986

AGREED.  

Portal is a biggy, because now we don't have as an accurate feel for how any given newcomer will gel with his new team/coaches until AFTER  a few games. I normally watch from the sidelines through the non-con sched anyway but this makes it doubly important now.

We were discussing the 12 team playoffs in my thread and what many might be overlooking is the new fact that, while the rise in "opt-outs" the past several years is discouraging, if anything it's likely to get even worse now!