Justin Fields? Zach LaVine? Cody Bellinger? We’ve got the answers to all your 2024 questions

It’s that time again for a Year in Preview column. If having 2024 vision is wrong, we don’t want to be right.

On Monday in Pasadena, Calif., the Michigan Wolverines will trade haymakers with Alabama but get TKO’d in the bitter end. Seven nights later in Houston, the Crimson Tide will get their revenge against Texas, the only team to roll them this season. Beat Nick Saban twice? Please.

Watching the national championship game with his feet up will be Bears coach Matt Eberflus, who survived the NFL’s Black Monday a day after — holy Havarti! — winning the season finale against the Packers at Lambeau Field. Bring back everybody? It just might happen.

On Feb. 2, Blackhawks rookie Connor Bedard, in Toronto for his first All-Star Game, will have all eyes on him as he participates in the revamped skills competition. A different Connor — the Oilers’ McDavid — will win the $1 million first prize, but Bedard will have no regrets after lighting the lamp the next day in the big game.