You want to torment your favorite college football fan at the next tailgate? Start up a little game of What-if. Over the course of thousands of plays in hundreds of games in a college football season, a few truly pivotal ones define the year and shape a team’s trajectory. Spot those, highlight those, and debate what might have been had those plays gone the other way.
Here are a dozen plays that shaped the 2024 College Playoff field, plays that could well have resulted in a very different field than we have right now. Consider what might have been…