The 2024 NCAA college football season has been nothing short of a thrilling rollercoaster ride that has captured the attention of college football fans worldwide. With major upsets, emerging young stars, and a chaotic landscape, this college football season is looking to be one of the strangest years in recent history.
Ryan Williams, a high school Wide Receiver prodigy out of Alabama, made headlines by skipping his senior year of high school to enroll at the University of Alabama. This decision allowed Williams to compete with some of the best at just 17 years old. Despite his age, Williams has already posted insane numbers, including a 177-yard and 1-touchdown game against a top-10 program in Georgia. Other notable young superstars include Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State University and Dylan Raiola of the University of Nebraska.
This season is marked with stunning upsets reminiscent of the notorious 2007 season. Notable games include unranked Northern Illinois University defeating Number 5 ranked Notre Dame with a score of 16 to 14 and unranked Vanderbilt upsetting Number 1 ranked Alabama by a score of 40 to 35. These games are just a few examples of the unpredictable nature of college football.
Multiple conferences have decided to make a change. This includes Oklahoma and Texas moving to the highly competitive SEC, adding Cal, SMU, and Stanford to the ACC, and Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah joining the Big 12. On top of the 4-team college football season moving to 12 teams, the college football landscape is looking to make a drastic change.
The race for the Heisman trophy or the trophy for the best college football player of the year is getting closer and closer by the day. Significant frontrunners include Ashton Jeanty of Boise State University, who is capable of breaking Barry Sander’s 26-year rushing yard and touchdown record, Travis Hunter of the University of Colorado, who is the most acclaimed two-way player that college football has ever seen, and Cam Ward, who has put up unforgettable numbers for a 10-1 University of Miami team.
As the college football season nears the end, the unpredictability of this season has created an electric atmosphere for both players and fans. The emergence of young stars like Ryan Williams has captured the attention of viewers, showing the new youth of years to come, and the tight race for the Heisman trophy shows the tough competition that college football players bring. Significant upsets that have altered the records of many Top-25 programs and the exciting drama that comes with conference changes show that this year is evolving into one of the wildest college football seasons we have ever seen.
