College Football Tiers: National Championship contenders, playoff dark horses, rebuilding teams
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Which college football teams are truly thinking about a national title in 2024? Which are aiming to make the playoff? Which could be playoff dark horses? Which are rebuilding, or happy to hope for a bowl?
From Georgia to Notre Dame, from Texas to Ohio State, from Ole Miss to Iowa State, on this Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis break all 68 Power Conference teams into six tiers for this season. And, by luck, they wound up with a pretty even breakdown of the sport.
The six tiers and how many teams landed in them:
• Title contenders (5)
• Playoff contenders (11)
• Playoff dark horses (14)
• Bowl hopefuls (14)
• Rebuilding (14)
• Struggling (10)
Where does your favorite team fit? Doug and Bill categorize all 26 Northern teams, plus everyone in the South, from Florida and Texas A&M to Clemson and USC.
Thanks for joining Kings of the North.
I may have been a little skeptical on this show idea from the beginning (although I did listen from the jump) but now I have to say, it’s one of my favorite listens. I pretty much knock them all out now. I hope this show gets the attention it deserves. In season this show should be really fun.
It's far and away my favorite college football show, even if it is run by Buckeyes.
Though I must say, Doug is (usually) the most open minded Buckeye when it comes to thinks "not Ohio State".
As a Nebraska fan living in Alabama, I have been hoping for 5 months now that someone would make a video about what Saban leaving means. I've watched us lose our GOAT coach and fallen from the heights, and I think Alabama has a chance to have a similar fall. We fired several 9-3 coaches because we expected too much, and now we're hoping to go to a bowl game. With the number of Alabama fans who called for Saban's head in years he didn't win it all, I think they could do something similar, and it would be tragic.
Dogging Cincinnati again. Beat both Houston and Pittsburgh. Also Nippert was one of the only stadiums that you didn’t cover in naming rights. Satterfield wasn’t a good hire but struggling might be unfair.
Why is Sherrone Moore getting any benefit of the doubt? There seems to be an assumption that Michigan won't miss a beat. Why? It took Harbaugh years to get to the point of beating OSU. And he's considered a great coach.
Harbaugh gutted the Michigan staff and their recruiting is hot garbage right now.
I'd rather be Texas and Oregon right now.
Totally agree. Plus, a complete rebuild on the OL. Yes, they have had good OLs in recent years, but no, the OL recruiting has not been elite. Even if they have been doing great development on OL, this is a completely new OL.
@robschoenung9543
Recruiting is "hot garbage"? On3 has them as the as the #15 class (and that's with only 8 recruits with many commitments expected after this weekend) and they're #8 by player rating. How is that garbage?Especially after they had to create new relationships with players and reset their board after the defensive staff left?
Shouldn't we judge recruiting classes when they're complete or at least until official visit season is over and we enter the summer recruiting dead period?
@@Jon.A.Scholt
I was looking at #38 on 247, which is the site I prefer.
But I will be fair, only 8 recruits and a good star average.
I'd probably put Ole Miss slightly above Michigan at the top of the Contenders for 2024. Maybe it's also a 1a/1b situation.
As a USC fan I can safely say if USC goes 7-5 our fan base would be really upset. With Lincoln Riley as our head coach we expect to win at least 9 games per year even without Caleb
Great ep.
I think Notre Dame should be in the same category as Texas and Oregon. Their defense can absolutely compete with the title contenders. Their offense is somewhat unknown this year, but they picked up the pieces to compete and added one of the best OCs in the country with Mike Denbrock.
Why can't PSU or ND go up a level without a champ. Appearence or semi finals while texas and oregon are up there without those..?
The “south should cram it” but we will put Bama in the top tier anyway. Where is the backbone?
Colorado = rebuilding every year... we need a new category for that....how about "the never ending rebuild."
What win/loss record will it take to make the playoffs?
10-2 to 9-3 for some teams. But top 5 conference champs are autobids
ND has had better recruiting classes than Penn State in 3 of the last 4 years. The only year Penn State was ranked higher they finished one spot above ND. ND has ranked 9, 7, 12, 9
Penn State has ranked 21, 6, 14, 15
Dismissively claiming Penn State is out-recruiting Notre Dame is just silly. It’s relatively close but Notre Dame is clearly ahead. Be better with the facts…
Penn State is better in player development in comparison to Notre Dame.
Y'all are taking it way too far with Oregon.
Ohio State is ahead of Michigan as a program. Please refer to this millennia of college football. top 3 program? wtf?
Oregon's gonna kick your cowboy butt..lol
1. Kinoa Winston will flip to Penn State before signing day
2. Oregon is the most overrated team in the history of college football
What makes you think Winston will flip? I've followed that recruitment closely and there is no reason to believe he's not locked in. If he wanted to go to Penn State and play with his cousin, he would've chosen them after his official there. But after that official he shut his recruitment down without visiting Oregon and UNC because he wasn't interested anymore.
Sorry, but he's going to be the heir of Mike Sainristil.
@@Jon.A.Scholt Not a fan of either team, but I think Michigan is going to take a significant step back while Penn State surprises. With that, and his relationships with Poindexter and Smith, he flips very late in the cycle.