COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS OFFICIALLY BACK, and with it, in fact, is ESPN’s Faculty Gameday. And the present was on the street for its first worldwide present, taking it to Dublin, Eire for No. 10 Florida State’s matchup in opposition to Georgia Tech in Week 0.
We right here at For The Win made our personal Week 0 picks and season-long predictions, however right here’s how the GameDay crew noticed the Dublin weekend taking part in out.
Along with the minimal Week 0 Saturday schedule, GameDay made picks for Thursday’s and Friday’s Week 1 video games, together with North Carolina-Minnesota, Colorado-North Dakota State and TCU-Stanford.
Following his retirement on the finish of the 2023-24 faculty soccer season, Nick Saban made his official debut as a part of Faculty GameDay‘s broadcast workforce. And clearly, that got here along with his picks and predictions for the season.
So far as upcoming video games go, Saban picked North Carolina over Minnesota, Colorado over North Dakota State and TCU over Stanford. For the Dublin sport, Saban went with Florida State beating Georgia Tech.
.@PatMcAfeeShow gave Nick Saban props on his first decide as a CGD analyst 🤝 pic.twitter.com/CW0gKgFwUI
— Faculty GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) August 24, 2024
how the general season will play out, Saban shared his predictions for the Energy 4 convention champions and who will play in and win the Faculty Soccer Playoff nationwide championship sport. He picked:
ACC champion: Florida State
Massive Ten champion: Ohio State
Massive 12 champion: Utah
SEC champion: Georgia
And Saban predicted Georgia will win the nationwide championship with a win over Oregon.
Saban additionally shared his Faculty Soccer Playoff predictions. Along with Georgia, Oregon, Florida State, Ohio State and Utah, he additionally picked Alabama, Notre Dame, LSU, Ole Miss, Penn State, Texas and Liberty to make the playoff.
The crew makes their CFP predictions earlier than the season will get underway 🏆 pic.twitter.com/x39PM7EgkG
— Faculty GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) August 24, 2024
Visitor picker WWE and Irish wrestling star Sheamus went with Minnesota over North Carolina, however made the identical picks as Saban for the opposite choose Thursday and Friday Week 1 video games. However for the Dublin sport, Sheamus picked Georgia Tech to high Florida State.
THE FIRST COLLEGE GAMEDAY GUEST PICKER OF THE YEAR‼️@WWESheamus has arrived 🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/iEt2wwnJ8O
— Faculty GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) August 24, 2024
.@WWESheamus stands alone in choosing Georgia Tech to beat Florida State 😮 pic.twitter.com/nSB73alhXY
— Faculty GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) August 24, 2024
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