Vegas Predicts College Football's Best Teams in 2023

Your early look at college football's best teams, according to the Vegas wise guys

Getting a line on the best teams in college football six months out from kickoff isn't an exact science, but it's not exactly rocket science, either. Notoriously one of the most top-heavy sports in the world, college football is fairly easy to project when it comes to the best of the best in the national championship race.

Not that there aren't surprises along the way. Like last season, when TCU shocked the world under first-year coach Sonny Dykes, going undefeated in the regular season and earning a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Looking at the FanDuel sports book, it appears we could have a repeat of last season's playoff this season when looking at their prediction for the three best teams nationally.

Vegas predicts college football's best teams in 2023

Ohio State: 10.5 wins. A program-defining decision awaits Ryan Day at the quarterback position as the Buckeyes look to replace Heisman finalist C.J. Stroud and changes are coming to the offensive line, as well. But whoever takes the job under center won't have trouble finding help: Ohio State returns arguably the premier combined WR/RB rotations in college football, led by already-presumptive first-round draft talent Marvin Harrison, Jr. Pressure is mounting for Day to get a win over Michigan; he's 0-2 the last two tries.

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Michigan: 10.5 wins. Things are trending up for the Wolverines, who in the last two seasons have dominated Ohio State, won the Big Ten, and made the College Football Playoff semifinal. Still, they haven't advanced to the national title game. That's next on the menu for a team that returns two elite offensive skill weapons in running backs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards in addition to dynamic quarterback J.J. McCarthy.

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Georgia: 11.5 wins. College football's back-to-back national champion and budding dynasty are on the cusp of knocking Alabama off the top of the mountain, if they haven't already. Another batch of elite recruits are set to take the stage to replenish the nation's best defense while Georgia scouts a new quarterback to connect with some of the SEC's better skill pieces, including tight end Brock Bowers and two notable transfer receiver pickups in RaRa Thomas and Dominic Lovett.

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