The 2024 College Football Playoff is right around the corner, and SportsLine's most successful experts are offering their top against-the-spread picks and future wagers for the anticipated 12-team tournament.

SportsLine assistant managing editor Josh Nagel is coming off a 2-0 mark during championship weekend to enter the CFP on a 9-4 run with his college football picks and season that has netted more than $1,000 to his followers.

Below, Nagel provides his top ATS selection for the first round of the CFP, along with his top value plays to win it all and another exotic future wager that he believes has value upside. 

Nagel is a Nevada-based handicapper with more than 25 years of experience in the sports wagering industry. SportsLine's assistant managing editor has covered the wagering industry on a variety of platforms and has won numerous sports handicapping contests. He finished the regular season on a 9-4 on his college football picks and has generated a profit of more than $1,000 to SportsLine members. For championship weekend, he released two-unit plays on Georgia (+3) against Texas and Boise State (-3.5) against UNLV. Georgia beat Texas outright 22-19 in the SEC title game, while Boise State rolled to a 21-7 win in the Mountain West title game to give Nagel's followers two easy winners!. Anyone who has followed him is WAY up!

Now, he's turned his attention to the College Football Pllayoff (see the latest college football lines for each game this week on our college football odds page) and is revealing his top value selections below. . You ABSOLUTELY need to see who he is backing before locking in any college football picks.

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