With those pre-Christmas bowls out of the way, you begin to see some of the better teams get their shots on the big stage — big-name teams with big-name players.
So here we are: championship week. Sure, there are some regular-season games happening (mainly in the Sun Belt, independents and a rescheduled Florida State-Louisiana Monroe tilt), but this is all about the nine conference championship games. There are a couple are de facto playoff games in their own right.
The dust is beginning to settle as the College Football Playoff picture starts to come into focus. Alabama, Clemson, Miami and Oklahoma find themselves in position to play for a national championship in January.
Some huge happenings went down in Week 10 of the college football season. Ohio State and Penn State both lost, nearly ending their College Football Playoff hopes.
As we pass the halfway point of the season and approach Halloween, there has been so much to digest in the 2017 college football season and much to look forward to. The best teams are starting to separate from the pack while some teams that had big hopes this season are watching their years spiral out of control.
After another week of chaos, the NCAA's best teams are hoping things calm down. Being a ranked team is supposed to be easy, right? Still, there's nothing like a little unpredictability to make the season a lot more exciting.
Week 8 may be the week everything tore apart. There were Tennessee players flipping off Alabama fans despite being down big, Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher getting into it with his own fans and several schools that had championship hopes at the beginning of the season frustratingly watching it tossed aside in front of a national audience.
We're more than halfway through the season, and things are just as chaotic as they were at the start of the year. Top teams are dropping games they are supposed to win, and struggling teams have risen up to shock college football week after week.
The NCAA college football season is approaching the halfway point, and the landscape has changed quite a bit. Some powerhouse teams have fallen, while schools stashed in smaller conferences have risen to great heights.
Entering this past Saturday's action, the top four teams in the country were steady and that figured to not change, with no team facing what seemed like a daunting challenge.
We are at the halfway point of the college football season, and it is a good time to sit back and assess the Heisman race. Unlike last year, there is no front-runner who has risen to the front of the pack from the gate and coasted to the trophy.
There was a lot of movement in the AP poll this past week, but the top teams have been relatively stable. That could all change Week 5. Some top teams are on upset alert, either facing tough road matchups or letdowns that could cost them a playoff spot.
Early-season jitters have subsided, and the top teams are separating themselves in Week 4 of college football. Some ranked teams are leaving the comfort of their home arenas for their first true road games.
While three games have been postponed or canceled due to Hurricane Irma, there are still plenty of other college football games on the schedule that will both excite and entertain.
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