Rece Davis has a strong take on Virginia Tech football for 2024

After years of a four-team College Football Playoff, the expanded 12-team field in 2024 is finally here. What the expansion does is it gives a lot of teams hope, something they would not normally have had from an early-season, mid-season, or late-season loss. Or, in the case of Florida State last season, run the table during the regular season, win your conference championship to finish 13-0, and be left out of the CFP.

That was last year, this is this year. We are going to 12 teams and a lot more teams are going to be part of the CFP without playing in their conference title game. Playing in your conference title game is great, but a one or two loss team who has a good body of work can still make the field even if they miss the championship game in early December.

There are several teams in the country before the season starts that are considered dark horses not only in their conference race but also to get. CPF bid. One of those schools is Virginia Tech, but Rece Davis of ESPN thinks that the Hokies are a long shot with good odds to make the expanded CFP this year.

Rece Davis names Virginia Tech as a long shot with good odds to make the CFP in 2024

ESPN GameDay host Rece Davis was on the recent "College GameDay Podcast" and named some schools that he thinks are long shots to make the CFP and he brought up two ACC schools, Virginia Tech and North Carolina State.

"I am most convicted about two teams to get into the mix, Virginia Tech and North Carolina State. Those are the two teams in this group of long shots that I could see it going their way."

- Rece Davis

There are plenty of things going for Virginia Tech to make that happen. First, they had a ton of retainment and returned nearly all of their production from 2023. Second, they open with a non-conference schedule against Vanderbilt, Marshall, Old Dominion, and Rutgers, with the latter being the hardest on paper. Third, their ACC schedule is doable this season. There is no Louisville, NC State, or Florida State, the three teams that beat them last season in ACC play, on it. They get Miami away, but host Clemson in November. Now, there are some trap games on the schedule, road games at Syracuse and Duke with a home game against Georgia Tech mixed in, but the Hokies should be favorites in those games.

There are a number of teams from the ACC that will likely be in the mix for a CFP spot and there is no reason why Virginia Tech can't be if they take care of business and win the games they are supposed to. If so, they could very well prove Davis right.