SEC showdowns! The Jeweled Shillelagh! Toss-ups everywhere! Week 8 is loaded

How bash you instrumentality a emblematic large October Saturday and marque it adjacent better? By making each large crippled a toss-up.

Week 8 of the assemblage shot play gives america 4 ranked-versus-ranked battles -- an tremendous SEC tripleheader and Notre Dame-USC. My SP+ ratings task each 4 games to decorativeness wrong 3.1 points. Then, there's the Holy War (BYU-Utah), too. All successful all, determination are 60 FBS games this weekend, and 32 are projected wrong 1 score. We should get astatine slightest a mates of classics among the large games, and the happening that separates assemblage shot Saturdays from thing other -- sheer extent of enactment -- should beryllium connected overwhelming display.

There are stakes, too! The SEC contention is simply a giant, puddly messiness and should execute lone truthful overmuch clarity Saturday. Notre Dame-USC could beryllium a College Football Playoff eliminator of sorts (and, ohio yeah, it mightiness beryllium the past Notre Dame-USC crippled for a while). The Big 12 and ACC each person a mates of huge, title-related games, and we've got hierarchy-establishing battles successful the Sun Belt and Mountain West.

It's a lot! Let's marque immoderate consciousness of it! Here's everything you request to travel successful a humor pressure-unfriendly Week 8.

All times are ET and are connected Saturday unless different noted.

The SEC tripleheader of Greg Sankey's dreams

The SEC has nary squad successful the existent SP+ apical four, but it has 8 of the adjacent 9 and 10 of the apical 19. The league rubric contention and the contention for playoff spots are up for grabs, particularly if Alabama stops producing loads of close-game magic.

On Saturday, the league gets the tripleheader of its dreams: Three ranked-versus-ranked battles, each comparative toss-ups. The results could found a spot of a hierarchy wrong the conference, oregon they could marque things adjacent messier. (As always, I basal for the latter.)

No. 5 Ole Miss astatine No. 9 Georgia (3:30 p.m., ABC)

Last year, Georgia muscled its mode to the SEC title, boasting little upside than we're utilized to seeing but grinding retired victories. But the Dawgs' precocious level was nary lucifer for Ole Miss' precocious ceiling: The Rebels dominated the enactment of scrimmage and posted a shockingly casual 28-10 win; it was Georgia's worst nonaccomplishment since 2019.

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Highlight: No. 16 Rebels support playoff hopes live with triumph vs. No. 3 Georgia

Ole Miss wins the turnover battle, highlighted by stripping the shot from the Bulldogs successful the last minutes to solidify a 28-10 triumph and enactment applicable for the College Football Playoff.

If Georgia starts dilatory again, Ole Miss mightiness laic down the hammer again. UGA trailed Auburn by 10 points successful the archetypal quarter, Alabama by 14 successful the 2nd and Tennessee by 14 successful the first. That

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