Week 1 of the 2023 college football season is here. And what better way to start the season than with some predictions?
Here are the conference champion and College Football Playoff predictions from our Yahoo Sports college football staff with insight from Nick Bromberg and Sam Cooper on their playoff picks below.My two easy selections for the playoff were Georgia and Michigan. The Bulldogs are still the deepest team in college football and I think the offense won't skip a beat despite the losses of QB Stetson Bennett and OC Todd Monken.
Michigan looks to be the most complete team in the Big Ten and has Ohio State at home this season. I trust J.J. McCarthy more than I do whoever starts at quarterback for the Buckeyes despite Ohio State’s talent at wide receiver. I feel less comfortable about my other two picks thanks to a big question about each team. Alabama is one of the few teams that can go toe-to-toe down the whole roster with Georgia but the Tide need solid quarterback play from whomever wins the starting job. And USC has to get the defense figured out. The Trojans need to take a significant step forward defensively to win the Pac-12. I think that happens, but Week 0 wasn’t comforting for that assumption.
I waffled with the No. 3 seed. I think both the ACC and Big 12 champions could end up with two losses, so I ended up going with USC. The Pac-12 has too many good teams, so the Trojans will lose a game somewhere along the way — but just one. A one-loss regular season coupled with a win over a top-10 or top-15 level team in the conference championship game should be good enough to get the Trojans into the field.
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