The 34 college football games you need to keep an eye on this weekend

You could accidental that Saturday brings the archetypal enactment of the 2025 assemblage shot play to a close.

Next week, we'll get a mates of mammoth helmet games -- Oregon astatine Penn State, Alabama astatine Georgia -- and league play volition beryllium afloat underway. We'll caput into October talking a batch astir playoff implications and the hierarchy among the sport's apical teams.

First, however, we person to necktie up immoderate escaped ends. We get different week to fig retired which of a ample radical of hyped-but-struggling quarterbacks -- Texas' Arch Manning, Clemson's Cade Klubnik, Florida's DJ Lagway, LSU's Garrett Nussmeier -- volition steer retired of a existent skid. We get a immense Illinois-Indiana crippled (just an astonishing operation of words there). We get a matchup of 2 of the Big 12's champion and meanest teams to day (Texas Tech astatine Utah). We get erstwhile Sooners backmost Jackson Arnold and Auburn heading to Norman successful a conflict of SEC unbeatens. And we get different monolithic week successful the Group of 5, with American Conference unbeatens Memphis and Tulane getting shots astatine SEC upsets and ambitious teams specified arsenic UNLV, North Texas and Boise State facing large roadworthy tests.

At the commencement of the assemblage shot season, 11 teams had astatine slightest a 2% accidental of winning the nationalist title, per the Allstate Playoff Predictor. Three weeks in, determination are 13. Nothing has been adjacent somewhat decided done 3 weeks, and the doorway for chaos could unfastened adjacent further this weekend. Before we get to the 2nd enactment of 2025, here's everything you request to travel successful a loaded Week 4.

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Which disappointing backmost tin rally?

Despite immoderate chaotic undertones, the play has gone astir arsenic we thought it might. Among the apical 9 teams successful the preseason SP+ rankings, six are inactive there, and the 3 others (Texas, Notre Dame, Michigan) haven't precisely plummeted. Some teams person disappointed aboriginal on, but fewer seasons are wholly lost.

For a quartet of quarterbacks, however, we're approaching now-or-never territory: Either commencement looking similar you were expected to look oregon chalk up 2025 arsenic a spectacular disappointment.

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