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The 2024 predictions thread

NoDakObserver said:
Regarding the college football predictions... the College Football playoffs expand to 12 teams next year. So there won't be a major oversight like Florida St next year, as they'd be easily in then. Florida St won't change conferences just because of the playoffs, and the government won't get involved over the 13th team that is left out of the 12 team playoffs. I suppose a Senator of that state could make noise for that 13th team, but the temporary outrage won't go anywhere just like it doesn't for the teams left out of the NCAA Men's basketball tournament.
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If you haven't heard yet, Florida State is calling an "emergency board of trustees" meeting tomorrow regarding their future in the ACC. Rumors are now flying everywhere that this may lead FSU jumping ship to the likes of the SEC or even Big Ten:

https://www.si.com/college/2023/12/21/florida-state-board-of-trustees-meeting-concerns-acc
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Some of those are at least proffered by people with an understanding of the market and are based on things that can actually occur.
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So are predictions of results proffered by people with an understanding of football or horse racing. Yet people who put money on those possible outcomes are dismissed as "gamblers" with an "addiction," while people who put money on stocks' ups and downs are called "investors" and respected. It's all gambling -- either the positive result will happen or it won't.
 
CTListener said:
So are predictions of results proffered by people with an understanding of football or horse racing. Yet people who put money on those possible outcomes are dismissed as "gamblers" with an "addiction," while people who put money on stocks' ups and downs are called "investors" and respected. It's all gambling -- either the positive result will happen or it won't.
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The odds are actually a lot better in the stock market. And the alternative is to watch inflation eat your money away.
 
The market in and of itself is not all that difficult to understand at a fundamental level. Prognostication is done to wild misses and occasional hits, but the basics are comperehensible.
 
CTListener said:
So are predictions of results proffered by people with an understanding of football or horse racing. Yet people who put money on those possible outcomes are dismissed as "gamblers" with an "addiction," while people who put money on stocks' ups and downs are called "investors" and respected. It's all gambling -- either the positive result will happen or it won't.
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It’s a generalization that people dismiss gamblers as addicted. That happens. It happens in gambling on investments.
 
I predict that there will be more folks cutting the cord in 2024 from cable tv and streaming services.

And due to declining viewers on cable sports channels (such as ESPN), I predict that many college football bowl games and the CFP playoffs and championship games will be aired OTA again on the major OTA networks such as ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, and NBC.
 
Is it just me or does anyone else think we will see, sometime in 2024, a new Jersey Mike's ad with Danny DeVito in which he revives his Louie DePalma character from "Taxi"? Perhaps even as a Super Bowl ad or during the NCAA tournament?
 
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