The HOTPO staff hopes you are enjoying probably the best football weekend we have ever been provided with the first-ever College Football Playoff semifinals and the NFL Wild Card Weekend. With the end of the NFL regular season, we have to assess the HOTPO picks from the beginning of the season. Below you will see: Column 1, 2023 playoff teams; Column 2, 2024 HOTPO predictions; and Column 3, 2024 playoff teams. Teams annotated in green landed exactly where they did last year, either a division winner or a wild card entry, while yellow are teams that made it, but not as predicted. Teams highlighted in red are new entries to the playoffs that missed out last year. The HOTPO got eight of the 14 qualifiers correct. That's OK - maybe a B or B- grade. If you want to be "good" at making preseason predictions, just pick the teams that made it the year before - you will historically get at least eight correct (this year would have been 10 correct). So, not bad on season pr...
