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O’Brien: Parity in college football was ‘eye-opening’ in 2024 season originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The 2024 college football season has been pretty awesome.
There were plenty of surprise teams, both good and bad. Conference realignment led to some pretty cool matchups that we don’t often see like Texas vs. Georgia or Ohio State vs. Oregon. There were no super-dominant teams, either. Only the Oregon Ducks finished the season undefeated among FBS schools. Oregon, Army, Indiana, Notre Dame and Boise State were the only teams with fewer than two losses.
It’s been an exciting year, and the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff hasn’t even started yet.
The amount of parity we saw throughout the sport helped make it a memorable four-plus months of regular season and conference championship action.
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On the latest episode of NBC Sports Boston’s Patriots Talk Podcast, host Tom E. Curran asked Boston College head coach Bill O’Brien about what surprised him in his return to college football from the NFL.
“I would say the biggest thing is the parity,” O’Brien said. “I mean, there’s a lot of parity in college football, for obvious reasons. There’s a lot of different factors that go into that. But when you look at our conference, the ACC, you look at Syracuse has nine wins. Duke had nine wins. SMU and Clemson, they’re in the playoff. There’s a lot of good football around.
“You look at the SEC, who’d have thought that Alabama would have three losses? There’s teams that were 3-9 the previous year, Arizona State and Indiana, that now are in the playoff. So there’s a chance for everybody. If you do it the right way and you bring in the right people, you got a shot.
“We’re trying to…
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Publish date : 2024-12-14 00:59:00
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