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2024 SEC Football Projections, Updates

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Initial leans on early lines for Texas at Michigan, LSU vs USC and other big non-conference matchups in the 2024 season

by:
Jesse Simonton



Quote2024 college football season will feature some juicy non-conference games, including LSU-USC squaring off in Las Vegas and Texas making a Week 2 trip to the Big House to play the reigning national champion Michigan Wolverines.

FanDuel Sportsbook recently updated more than a dozen early betting lines for some big games in 2024. Dynamics can (and will) change:


Georgia (-12.5) vs. Clemson (Atlanta)
Early Lean: The Bulldogs are the preseason favorites for the 2024-25 national title, so it's no surprise they open as a big favorite over a Tigers team looking to replicate their championship success again under Dabo

LSU (-6.5) vs. USC (Las Vegas)
Early Lean: This is an incredible matchup between two programs looking to replace the last two Heisman Trophy winners —

A&M (-1.5) vs. Notre Dame
Early Lean: Mike Elko will kickstart his tenure as the Aggies' head coach going up against his former quarterback and top defensive lineman at Duke (Riley Leonard and RJ Oben) in Week 1 against the Irish.

Texas (-2.5) at Michigan
Early Lean: Two of the four 2023 College Football Playoff representatives will meet in Week 2, and what a tremendous helmet game

A lot has changed in Ann Arbor.
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Analyzing Tennessee's chances to win 10 games, make College Football Playoff

by:
Chandler Vessels



QuoteJust two years removed from an 11-win season, Tennessee is hopeful that it can make the College Football Playoff in 2024. The Volunteers have never made the CFP since its inception in 2014, but with the expanded 12-team field will have a greater chance than in the past.

Tennessee is currently has an over/under of 9.5 wins for the 2024 season according to FanDuel. If it can reach the 10-win mark, especially while facing a tough SEC schedule, one would think that could be enough to get the Vols in the playoff.

Brent Hubbs of VolQuest joined On3's Andy Staples to highlight the areas Tennessee needs to step up this season to reach the College Football Playoff.

"Certainly you can make that case (for a playoff berth) without a doubt," Hubbs said. "That's the fun part of it. Tennessee's in a conversation that they haven't been in much over the last decade-and-a-half. There's a relevancy factor there that hasn't been there. You can get every beat writer on here for every team that's projected as a playoff team with the exception of maybe Georgia, but there's a few teams you go 'that should be a playoff team.'

"There's a lot of people with a lot of holes. The transfer portal makes those holes very fillable very fast in a lot of ways if you hit. That's why you look at this thing, in particular Tennessee, Jermod McCoy at corner is really important for Tennessee. You look at Jakobe Thomas, who's a transfer from MTSU. He's got to hit because you're replacing two safeties on the back end who had a ton of experience.

"There's no more important position for Josh Heupel's offense, outside of quarterback, than the tight end spot," Hubbs said. "They play with a tight end almost exclusively on offense. They don't go four and five-wide even though there's depth at receiver. They want that tight end in there because they can manipulate so much in the run game with the ability to flex the tight end out, move him back and move him back in. Make him an end line blocker, an H-back. Can Holden Staes handle that?

"Ethan Davis, can he be physical enough? Where are they at that tight end position? They only really have two tight ends on the roster. Cole Harrison will be a third, who arrives this summer. But I'm not sure he's gonna be able to help them after being a high school senior graduating in May. If there's one position they can ill-afford an injury outside of quarterback, it's the tight end position. They must hit with Staes and they must stay healthy there for this offense to achieve what fans expect them to achieve with Nico, the balance in the run game and what we saw two years ago that everybody wants to try to get back to."

Tennessee's matchup vs. Alabama changes without Nick Saban...
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Elko updates injury recovery of Conner Weigman

by:
Matt Connolly



QuoteA&M quarterback Conner Weigman missed most of last season with a foot injury. Aggies head coach Mike Elko shared recently that Weigman is still working his way back to 100 percent.

The sophomore is taking part in spring practice, but he's not yet back fully healthy after being injured last September, per Elko.

"Still battling," Elko said when asked where Conner Weigman is at from a health standpoint. "He'll be out there practicing. I don't think he's exactly where he'd like to be long-term. Not that he's behind or anything or hasn't done what he's supposed to do or there's concerns. I just think he would obviously like to be a little bit healthier."
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Evaluating Florida's early-season home games vs. Miami, A&M, UCF

by:
Steve Samra



QuoteOn3's Andy Staples and J.D. PicKell reacted to it

"There's nothing that's going to be said that's going to remedy the thing that Steve Spurrier said, that Princely Umanmielen said. What's gonna help remedy this is getting a win week one against Miami, start the season off with a bang and then we — you know, don't even think about this," PicKell said, regarding Florida's current predicament.

Staples: "It's one of those crazy games where it does not matter who wins. The opposing fan base is going to want to jump off a cliff."

"This whole game, not to go back too far to this preview. If it were played at a neutral site, I'd probably lean pretty heavily towards Miami," PicKell added. "Maybe that's me, like you just said, with the recency bias. Maybe that's me drinking the Cam Ward Kool-Aid.

"But the fact that it's played in Gainesville, in the swamp, just throws a total variable of like, who the heck knows what's about to happen in this game kind of feel."

Andy Staples on Florida's 'scary' early season schedule...
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