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Where Action Network has LSU in way-too-early 2024 bowl projections

Can the Tigers break the inaugural 12-team playoff field?

Spring ball for the 2024 season hasn’t even started, but it’s never too early to start making some projections.

This will be the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff format, and that means the concept of the New Year’s Six is also a thing of the past.

Action Network’s Brett McMurphy recently released his way-too-early bowl projections for the 2024 season, and unfortunately for the Tigers, he has them missing the CFP field.

He instead predicts a matchup against Miami in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. He also thinks LSU would be a heavy favorite in that game, projecting a spread of 10.5 points.

While there’s no way of knowing how accurate this will prove to be, it does go to show that the national media has some key questions about LSU entering 2024.

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UVA’s cheap rebound on a game-ending heave was one of the most unbelievable bad beats

With 0.1 on the clock!

Bad beats come in many forms, some more anticipated than others. As for the one that happened at the buzzer of Virginia’s game against Clemson on Tuesday, nobody could have seen that coming.

That’s because it happened at the buzzer — only it wasn’t the typical bad beat on a game-winning shot.

This bad beat involved a player’s rebounding prop, suggested hours earlier by Action Network analyst Sean Koerner on the Green Dot Daily! show. He predicted Virginia forward Ben Vander Plas would fall under 6.5 rebounds.

That pick was right up until the final tenth of a second when Vander Plas caught rebound No. 7 on a pointless half-court heave by Clemson.

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Koerner and everyone who tailed him felt that one in the gut.

What makes it worst is Vander Plas didn’t need to catch it. The clock still would have struck zero before the ball hit the ground had he let it go. But no player is passing on that opportunity to pad the ol’ stat sheet, so he caught it over the shoulder like a receiver in the end zone — almost like he knew the stakes of the rebound.

Koerner called it one of his worst beats.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard to top that.

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Report: Oregon, Big Ten holding preliminary discussions to determine if Ducks are ‘compatible’ in league

Is Oregon a good fit for the Big Ten? That’s what is apparently being discussed right now

Is Oregon a good fit for the Big Ten? That’s what is apparently being discussed right now.

Brett McMurphy of the Action Network is reporting Oregon has initiated preliminary with the Big Ten on whether the Ducks are “compatible” in the Big Ten. This comes on the heels of McMurphy reporting last week that the Big Ten was “not done expanding” and that numerous Pac-12 teams — such as Oregon — could be in play for joining the league.

Other programs linked to potential further expansion for the Big Ten include Notre Dame, Washington, Stanford and Cal. There has also been speculation of the conference considering Florida State and Miami (FL) should the Big Ten want to expand into another geographic region.

To read more on this report from McMurphy, click on the link below:

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Which bowl games Notre Dame is projected to play in entering 2021 season

Where do you think the Irish will go bowling?

The season gets started tomorrow, week 0 brings us a mix intriguing contests, Illinois hosting Nebraska, and some odd scheduling, Southern Utah playing two games in the span of four days. With that in mind, bowl projections are flying all over the place and in an effort to make it easier for you, we’ve complied a few of the experts projections for where Notre Dame could be headed in late December or early January below.