Happy New Year!!!!!! Winner Predictions for the Sports Year

Happy New Year!!!

Let us be the first ones (out of your family) to wish you a happy new year! We’re going to get our major sports edition picks in today. You will enjoy this 12 A.M edition!!! Here are some major changes happening in the new year. A policy/noticeboard will be sent out as soon as possible.

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The Predictions

NFL

Super Bowl Champ: Ravens

Super Bowl Runner-Up: Lions

No clue why I picked the Lions, but I just feel like they have the best shot at this. The 49ers are a great team, not going to say anything about that, but the Lions are the underdog pick here, and I’m going for it. I believe in Dan Campbell’s squad and the connection between the QB and WR. The defense is going to stop Brock Purdy at least once and the Lions will just keep scoring after that!

NBA

NBA Finals Winner: 76ers

NBA Finals Runner-Up: Clippers

Star-studded team versus a great team. Who wins?

MLB

World Series Winner: Dodgers

World Series Runner-Up: Yankees

Juan Soto and Aaron Judge vs Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts.

Gerrit Cole vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Who wins these matchups? That’s what this world series will be about. It’s going to be awesome. I wanted to add one team though in this mix and that is the Royals. They got some good pitching this offseason so far, and I think they’ll finally be able to get out of the bottom-rank tier category. I don’t know why, but I’ve said that they’ll lose to the Yankees in the ALCS.

MLS

MLS Cup Winner: Inter Miami CF

MLS Cup Runner-Up: LAFC

Y’all. It’s Lionel Messi.

NHL

Stanley Cup Winner: Las Vegas Golden Knights

Stanley Cup Runner-up: New York Rangers

The Golden Knights are already champions, and in the way the season is going right now for them, they’ll probably win again.

CFB Championship

Today, the semis of the CFP will be going on. I’m going to predict that, and then our national champion of the year. Ready?

Alabama vs Michigan 5:00 P.M. EST

Michigan

Jim Harbaugh is coming back and Michigan has been very dominant this year even without their head coach for the final four games of the season. This is going to be an exciting matchup and Michigan will pull it off in the final minutes of the 4th quarter.

Texas vs Washington 8:45 P.M EST

Huskies for the win.

Washington has a very good defense and attacks must be made. I don’t have much of a take on this.

For more info, check this place out: https://247sports.com/college/texas/longformarticle/texas-longhorns-college-football-playoff-how-to-attack-washington-huskies-defense-the-insider-year-end-awards-2023-224052032/

And this place out:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39198448/longhorns-relish-facing-huskies-again-final-revenge-tour-stop

Australian Open

Women’s Winner: Elena Rybakina

Women’s Runner-Up: Iga Swiatek

Men’s Winner: Carlos Alcaraz

Men’s Runner-Up: Rafael Nadal (biased)

My favorite tennis player is Rafael Nadal, and I have a little bias towards him. Especially since he’s returning from injury and I want him to do well.

For the rest of the Grand Slam Tournaments, for Men’s tennis, I have Novak Djokovic winning. I personally hate him (because he wins too much and for some other reasons), but he’s a good tennis player and will win. This is only if he doesn’t get injured.

Olympics

Of course, we currently do not know the list of the competitors in this battle, but I assure you we’ll be talking a bit about it in future editions as we near summer.

2024 T20 Cricket World Cup

Winner: Australia

Runner-Up: West Indies

Conclusion

There are of course many other sports in this world. We can’t cover all of them in one edition, but as 366 days go on this year, we’ll cover many of them. Thank you so much for reading Sports Square this new year!