Michigan must do to make the College Football Playoff in 2024

For lovers of the Michigan Wolverines football team, we are less than a month away from the commencement of the 2024 season. They are coming off as the college football national champions and they also enter the new season as the defending Big Ten champions.

Notwithstanding the transference of Jim Harbaugh and several other key players to the NFL levels a new paradigm of performance has been achieved in Ann Arbor. The expectation for Sherrone Moore and this new look Michigan squad is the same: competing for the Big Ten the College Football Playoff and most importantly the national title.

Newcomers such as the Washington Huskies, USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks, and UCLA Bruins make it even harder scoring the Big ten that is is now filled with newcomers. Nevertheless, that is no longer necessary to qualify for play-offs since the NFL and the new post-season format, which incluses 12 teams, can demonstrate. Getting a conference title bags a place in the dance, but these Wolverines can compete for the national championship in 2024 in more ways than one.

Looking at the schedules, with the exception of most other Big ten team, Michigan’s 2024 schedule might be perhaps the toughest we have seen in the last one decade. I think it is going to be tough for these players to curtain three of perhaps the five best teams in college football this year let alone a sterner Big Ten. This, however, works much in their favor.

Last year and in the year’s preceding it, choosing to emphasize the problem of a single loss as catastrophic to any given team’s chances of making the playoffs was outright sensible. Now that is an ideology that is going to shift within the next couple of years while the playoffs stay at 12 and possibly expand more.

The committee has stated clearly that they hold quality of competition in Big Ten and SEC far much more important than their rivals. This is why a one-loss Alabama team leapfrogged Florida State in the rankings last season for example. Rolled over Texas Longhorns Read, the only regular season loss and a perfect SEC season for Alabama. Which was enough to beat the seminoles because of an injury on the quarterback Jordan travis. However, I also could not help but think that that may have been the case anyway because of the apparent bias that the committee has afforded to the SEC and Big Ten right from the start.

Two teams from SEC have been to playoffs twice in the period of 10 years of its existence and the Big Ten has been there once as well. However, that bias is only going to increase even further in 2024 and on in the future due to expansion by both parties.

Subsequently, what do the Wolverines have to to be able to clinch a place in the College Football Playoffs in 2024?

The most literal answer we have already mentioned is to win the Big Ten. If they repeat the same and go through the season without being defeated, then they will be in. Even a defeat in Week 2 to Texas and a perfect end would be sufficient It is September and all bets are off.

However, what if they do not get the conference championship and they are shooting for one of the at-large bids? The first five Conference champions are, as a result, guaranteed berths while the other seven teams which make the top twelve rankings will also make the playoffs. What that means is that there is more evidence for two and perhaps even three losing teams to get into the postseason tournament.

Same exception if Michigan losses three games however it may be very hard for it to clinch a spot. With a good schedule of the games in hand the aforesaid losses are likely to originate from the fellow top teams such as Texas, Ohio State, and Oregon. The win total for DraftKings SportsBook heading into August is nine; however, those three games listed must be the games for DraftKings to reach 10 wins.

That means the 10-win marker with this kind of schedule almost without a doubt is going to be in the playoff. Games like Texas or Oregon at home or Ohio State towards the end of the season seem like enough to get them to join the club. It is so particularly because all the three of those teams are very much likely to be feeling the heat to get into the playoffs themselves.

But what this is also the implication for Michigan is that they have to look after business against the rest of the conference. There are specific games that I have my eye on are at home against USC, away to Washington, the Michigan State game and a further away at Indiana.

Every one of these teams is going to be out to beat the Wolverines with one motive or another. USC was not at its best last year with Caleb Williams, and this will be a perfect chance for them to show they are a contender for the big ten in the first year. Washington should be recognized, having lost to Michigan in the NFSA last year. Perhaps with coaching and personnel changes intact, going to Seattle and playing amidst that time difference would not be a joke. This home was got dogged last year and will be eager to exact that on a Spartan team with a new coaching staff. And, Curt Cignetti already has a vindictive motion towards the Wolverines, saying at his introduction that Purdue, Michigan, and Ohio State suck:And, Curt Cignetti already has a vindictive motion towards the Wolverines, saying at his introduction that Purdue, Michigan, and Ohio State suck:

In layman’s terms, Michigan has to handle the so-called ‘tomato cans’ and upset one of the aforementioned CFP contenders to pretty much guarantee themselves a shot at the playoffs come the end of the year. In this context, it is possible to state that the achievement of 10 victories will be enough for such a schedule. Anything less than that, the fans are going to be forgetting about the reigning champions quickly for another team even with the Big Ten and national brand bias that may keep them on the bubble for nearly the entire year.