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247Sports lists 10 college football teams with National Championship potential

Texas enters 2023 with national championship potential.

National Signing Day wrapped up an eventful 2023 recruiting cycle with tons of intriguing storylines.

2023 featured one of the most talented quarterback classes in recent memory led by Arch Manning and Nico Iamaleava, Alabama reclaiming the No. 1 spot atop the rankings and Deion Sanders pulling another blue chip player with him to Colorado.

While TCU turned some heads with its remarkable season, most recent history shows that recruiting success directly translates to competing for championships.

The Georgia and Alabama of the world stay on top by consistently having the elite talent to develop. The players signing in the cycle are the future of college football.

247Sports put together a list of 10 college football teams with “National Championship potential” following National Signing Day. The list features the usual suspects, such as Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State along with a few teams hoping to crash the playoff party, like Texas, USC and Penn State.

Five things Texas must do to reach the College Football Playoff in 2023

How Texas can make the College Football Playoff in 2023.

The College Football Playoff semifinals took place on Saturday night and were two of the best games in recent memory. Continue reading “Five things Texas must do to reach the College Football Playoff in 2023”

Former Georgia Bulldog star David Pollack makes CFP prediction

Georgia Bulldogs legend and ESPN College GameDay analyst David Pollack correctly predicted the CFP national title game and SEC championship last August. Can he do it again?

Georgia Bulldogs legend and ESPN “College GameDay” analyst David Pollack correctly predicted the 2022 College Football Playoff national championship and the result of the SEC championship. Impressively, Pollack made those predictions ahead of the season.

Now, Pollack projects Alabama, Ohio State, Utah and Clemson to make the 2023 CFP. He thinks Alabama will knock off Ohio State to win the national title.

Pollack made his prediction on ESPN’s “College GameDay”:

Can David Pollack correctly pick the national championship game in back-to-back years? Alabama-Ohio State is a very popular preseason national title matchup. The Buckeyes and Crimson Tide return their respective starting quarterbacks.

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ESPN ranks teams most likely to make the CFP

Who does ESPN consider to be most likely to make the CFP? UGA, Alabama, and Ohio State enter the year as big favorites

ESPN’s Allstate playoff predictor has ranked the teams with the best chances to make the College Football Playoff. Last season, the playoff featured Georgia, Alabama, Cincinnati and Michigan.

This year, Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State are considered heavy favorites to make the playoffs. All three teams face challenging opponents in the first couple of weeks of the season.

ESPN gives 16 teams a better than 2% chance to make the playoffs. Five of these teams are from the SEC, while the Big Ten has four teams.

Overall, ESPN’s playoff prediction is fairly accurate in the preseason. The model has projected that every national champion, during the playoff era, had at least a 65% chance to make the playoff entering the season.

Here’s who ESPN considers the 10 teams most likely to make the playoffs: