Oddly specific CFB predictions: Ohio State's perfect 2024 + Deion, Shedeur return?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
It's that time of the off-season where we go out on a limb...a very long limb. Chris Vannini and Manny Navarro return with their second installment of Oddly Specific College Football Predictions. Ohio State will finish the year 16-0? Travis Hunter will win the Heisman and be drafted #1 overall? According to the guys, it may happen! Before then, a Georgia WR is dismissed from the team, CFB stolen valor at the Olympics and revisiting our 2023 OSPs!
Read Manny's 2023 predictions: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4775874/2023/08/17/ap-top-25-oddly-specific-predictions-texas/
Read about NCAA's NIL transparency initiative via Chris:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5668716/2024/08/01/ncaa-nil-assist-platform-contract-information/
Rundown:
- RaRa Thomas dismissed from Georgia (2:45)
- Olympics stolen valor (4:30)
- 2023's Oddly Specific Predictions recap (11:15)
- 2024's Oddly Specific Predictions: ACC (17:00)
- Big Ten predictions (29:00)
- Big 12 predictions (37:00)
- SEC predictions (46:00)
- Group of 5 predictions (55:00)
- NCAA NIL database (1:06:00)
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| 1:18.9 | Welcome! Welcome to Until Saturday, the Athletics College Football podcast. |
| 1:20.6 | My name is Chris Vinini. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm joined here today by Mani Navarro, and we're back for the 2024 edition of the oddly specific predictions. |
| 1:35.4 | We'll have three or four predictions each for each Power 4 league as well as the group of five. |
| 1:39.7 | We'll also look back at how we did a year ago with these specific predictions. |
| 1:42.6 | Spoiler alert, not too bad, actually. |
| 1:46.9 | We'll also talk about the NCAA's new public nil database some olympic stolen valor for conferences as well but first subscribe to the podcast wherever you |
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