Week 1 of the 2022 college football season is here. And what better way to start the season than with some predictions that will undoubtedly be imperfect? Here are the conference champion and College Football Playoff predictions from our Yahoo Sports college football staff with insight from Nick Bromberg and Sam Cooper on their playoff picks below.
College Football Playoff predictions
Nick Bromberg: I realize that we had Clemson ahead of Utah in our preseason top 25 but I’m backing Utah to make the playoff over the Tigers because of a couple of factors.