Penn State Football is gearing up for 2024, and this year will be more difficult than in seasons past.
The Big Ten has expanded, adding four new teams: Oregon, USC, UCLA, and Washington, making Penn State‘s path to the College Football Playoff perhaps as difficult as ever, even with the tournament expanding to 12 teams.
The Nittany Lions will have to face USC, UCLA, and Washington on top of Ohio State, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. If they make the Big Ten title game, they will likely have to face Ohio State again or Oregon or Michigan, whom they will not meet in the regular season.
The Nittany Lions will be tested from the start.
Penn State Football 2024 Season Begins Inside Coaches Poll Top-10
They have a great chance of making the 12-team College Football Playoff even with a strict schedule because of how great their team is and the coaches around college football; also noticed what Penn State can do this year because the Preseason Coaches Top 25 poll came out on Monday, and the Nittany Lions came in at number nine.
Penn State is the fourth-highest-ranked Big Ten team, with Ohio State ranked second, Oregon third, and Michigan eighth.
The coaches poll is an excellent way to see how the coaches around college football think about teams, and the Nittany Lions getting a Top Ten ranking from opposing coaches shows how much respect they have for them.
Even though Penn State was never able to make a four-team college football playoff, it was always in the running for a spot, and it will now be in the mix for one of the 12 playoff spots this season.
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