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Chris "The Bear" Fallica is back with more college football futures! Read to see which teams he's backing in head-to-head matchups, who he likes to make the CFP and how he is betting some big awards.

Best 2024 college football futures, head-to-head bets from Chris 'The Bear' Fallica

Gainesville, FL

Athlon Sports

This could be a pivotal season for the Florida Gators, who are currently on a three-season losing streak. Their last winning season was in 2020 when they achieved an 8-4 record. This season could also be crucial for head coach Billy Napier, who has been in charge for two of the three losing ...

Paul Finebaum Names SEC Giant With No Chance At College Football Playoff

The Spun

2024 is a huge year for the College Football Playoff. The field will expand for the first time in its history, going from four teams to 12. That change makes the week-by-week rankings even more important, as teams around the nation jockey for position in the Playoff seeding. The Playoff Committee ...

The College Football Playoff Has Set Its Ranking Schedule For '24 Season

If you're not from one of these states, sorry. More fun will be had elsewhere. There are 134 FBS teams spread across 41 states, but just a select few of these regions enter the 2024 season as bonafide college football hotbeds. Some states boast multiple teams in the preseason AP Top 25. Others tout backloaded state rosters with several contenders in the Power Four and Group of Five ranks. Combined with its own football culture, it's clear which states are the greatest for college football this fall.

The top 10 greatest states for college football in 2024

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...

Bowl projections: SEC, Big Ten deliver on preseason hype, taking half of 12 College Football Playoff slots

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

North Carolina State

Chapel Hill, NC

Town Talks

A solid education is crucial, often leading to better job opportunities and higher salaries. While educated individuals can be found across the country, some regions have a particularly high concentration of educated residents.

These 2 North Carolina Cities Are The Most Educated In America

Is this the year Penn State finally makes the College Football Playoff? How about Ole Miss? FOX Sports' RJ Young lists five teams he believes could make the CFP for the first time this season.

Five teams that could make the College Football Playoff for the first time in 2024

Los Angeles County, CA

Herbie J Pilato

In 1981, pop-music sensation Andy Gibb was at the top of the charts. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a.k.a. The Bee Gees, commenced a tumultuous romance with actress Victoria Principle, who played Pam Ewing on Dallas, TV's then-Number 1 prime-time series. But after the relationship ended, Andy's life, already challenged by substance abuse, did as well. This is their tragic story.

The Tragic Death of Pop Star Andy Gibb & His Traumatic Romance with 'Dallas' Star Victoria Principle

Tennessee State

Mooresburg, TN

CBS Sports

Bloomquist was universally regarded as one of the greatest dirt late model racers of all-time

Scott Bloomquist, dirt track auto racing legend, killed in plane crash in Tennessee

Memphis, TN

Group of 5 On SI

The highest-ranked G5 conference champion will make the 12-team playoff this season

The Athletic Names Memphis & Boise State Among Unranked College Football Playoff Contenders

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

FanSided

As the college football season approaches, attention shifts toward the sport's revamped landscape, highlighted by the changes in the SEC. Oklahoma and Texas arrive from the Big 12, deepening an already strong conference with two powerhouse programs that will contend for conference championships and spots in the expanded College Football Playoff.

What channel is SEC Network? How to watch, stream 2024 college football games

Tampa, FL

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

4 arrested in slaying of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio

Georgia State

Athens, GA

Georgia Bulldogs On SI

Georgia football lands six players on ESPN's top 100 college football players list ahead of the 2024 college football season.

Georgia Football Players Littered Across ESPN's Top 100 College Football Players List

For the first time since the inaugural College Football Playoff, the reigning national champion resides in the Big Ten. Although so much has changed over the last several months in Ann Arbor, the Michigan Wolverines are still the victors of major college football. Of course, arch rival Ohio State looms large, as well as the conference gaining four former Pac-12 universities, including Oregon.

Big Ten Football preview 2024: Predicted winner, hot seat watch, Heisman chances

McElroy thinks this team has what it takes

Greg McElroy Names College Football Playoff Contender He's 'Huge On'

Durham, NC

Yardbarker

The 2024 college football season kicks off with four "Week 0" games on Aug. 24, including No. 10 Florida State and Georgia Tech facing off in Dublin, Ireland.But when Weeks 1 and 2 finally roll around, these are five under-the-radar matchups that could offer key insights into some contenders and potential dark horses.Aug. 31: No. 7 Notre Dame at No. 20 Texas A&MBelieve it or not, the common denominator in this matchup is Duke University. Former Blue Devils quarterback Riley Leonard will lead The Fighting Irish against his former head coach Mike Elko, both entering their first year at new...

Five under-the-radar games to start the college football season

State College, PA

ClutchPoints

It’s an exciting time to be a college football fan, and one fan base that is excited for the season is Penn State football fans. The Nittany Lions have a good amount of hype coming into the 2024 season as they have their sights set on the College Football Playoff now that it is expanded […]
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Penn State football’s fatal flaw that will doom College Football Playoff hopes

The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

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2024 College Football Conference Power Rankings: SEC starts season on top, but Big Ten isn't far behind

Whether college football's decision-makers will admit it or not, conference perception does matter. It influences the College Football Playoff selection process, where strength of schedule is...

2024 College Football Conference Power Rankings: SEC starts season on top, but Big Ten isn't far behind

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