Paul Finebaum says the unpredictable nature of 2024 has been ‘phenomenal’ for fans

Paul Finebaum has seen countless college football seasons in his lifetime, and they come in all shapes and sizes.

But the week-to-week chaos that the ESPN college football analyst is enjoying in 2024 is something to behold, and Finebaum believes it will serve the sport well this fall and, most importantly, its loyal fans.

During his weekly Monday morning appearance on the show “McElroy & Cubelic In The Morning,” Finebaum talked about what happened during the first two months of the season.

“From the fans’ point of view, I think it was just phenomenal,” Finebaum said. “Saturday was like diving into a tank and not coming out for 12 hours. You really aren’t 100 percent sure what you’re going to get. And I like that. There have been too many seasons where even at the end of September we said, ‘Okay, we’re eight weeks away from the LSU-Alabama game,’ and that’s all we talk about.

That’s clearly not the case this season. It was the opposite. Finebaum, who is an analyst but also a fan, can’t get enough of the weekly fun – even though he gets screwed by followers more often because he gets more games wrong.

“It’s really hard to know what’s going to happen, and it makes the job hardest for the experts who are wrong more often these days than ever before, making the naysayers happen because they can blame those who predict the football. games for everything,” Finebaum added. “But I love it. I have many reasons for it that have been discussed ad nauseam, but especially within the SEC race, it’s hard to ignore right now. That’s what we wanted with the 12-team Playoff and the SEC expansion.”