Before the kickoff of the first game of the 2024 season, we always knew this would be a turning point in the 150-plus year history of college football. The combination of massive conference realignment and the expansion of the College Football Playoff shifted the landscape in ways that figured to make the sport unrecognizable.

The expanded College Football Playoff will give this sport something that previously was unrivaled by the other sport: a true Selection Sunday. Men’s basketball offered a crescendo to its regular season by unveiling a bracket that had millions of people scribbling on paper and analyzing every 5 vs.

College football bowl season is nearly here, and it makes every regular season game carry a little more weight. Matchups th