The 2024 college football season kicks off this Saturday with a few Week Zero games before essentially every team in the nation gets underway next week.
Here are three conference favorites that we think will cash this year.
Boise State Broncos (-110 to win Mountain West)
Boise State fired its coach Andy Avalos during last season yet still won the Mountain West championship with a 44-20 rout of UNLV in the league title game. It was Boise’s fifth all-time MW title in football and the Broncos should repeat. They have had 26th consecutive winning seasons, the nation’s longest active streak.
Former defensive coordinator Spencer Danielson was the interim coach for Boise last year after Avalos was fired but was given the full-time gig in a no-brainer. He was the first interim head coach to lead his team to a conference championship game title in FBS history. In each of his three seasons as defensive coordinator Boise State ranked in the top three of the Mountain West in scoring defense, including allowing a league-low 19 points per game in 2021.
Boise State could have the nation’s top running back in Ashton Jeanty, who considered the NFL Draft and transferring but got big NIL money to return.
USC transfer Malachi Nelson, a former five-star recruit, likely will be the starting QB this year.
^Memphis (+220 to win AAC)
SMU won the 2023 AAC title with an unbeaten league record and then beat Tulane in the title game but the Mustangs are now in the ACC. Their toughest regular-season game was a 38-34 win over Memphis, and we think the Tigers will claim the 2024 title.
Henigan passed for 3,883 yards (ranking fourth nationally) and 32 touchdowns (fifth nationally) against nine interceptions last season. He is on all the major preseason award watch lists: Johnny Unitas Golden Arm, the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award and Davey O’Brien Award.
Henigan is the Memphis-career leader entering 2024 in completions (839) and passing yards (10,776) while his 79 touchdowns are just a dozen shy of Brady White’s career record.
^Ohio State (+155 to win Big Ten)
Can you buy a Big Ten and national title? We may find out this year after Ohio State reportedly spent $20 million this offseason on players through the NIL market. That allowed the team to keep players WR Emeka Egbuka, RB TreVeyon Henderson, DE Jack Sawyer and CB Denzel Burke from entering the NFL Draft and Coach Jason Day landed marquee transfers such as former five-star quarterback Julian Sayin, Alabama star safety Caleb Downs, Ole Miss running back Quinshon Judkins and Kansas State quarterback Will Howard.
Howard will be the 2024 starter and is among the Heisman Trophy favorites. He is the most experienced of Ohio State’s five scholarship quarterbacks with 34 games played and 28 starts at Kansas State between 2020-23. Howard was 8-4 as the team’s starting quarterback in 2023 and was named second-team all-Big 12.
Ohio State might not be an underdog all season; the big test will be early November at Oregon, which is the second-favorite in the Big Ten.
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