It’s the final Saturday of college football’s regular season, and even after a substantial number of Friday games this holiday week, there is still plenty to feast on. Rivalries will be renewed, conference championship game matchups and playoff berths will be decided, and maybe there will even be another fight or something in Ann Arbor.
Listed below is every game that will be broadcast on television Saturday, plus some intel on a notable matchup in each time slot. What will you be watching?
All times Eastern.
Early afternoon
In the spotlight: Ohio State at Michigan
Michigan takes a pair of notable winning streaks into Saturday’s annual rivalry game against Ohio State. The Wolverines have won five consecutive games since the middle of October, and they will have played their way back onto the fringe of the playoff conversation if they can pull off the upset here. A win coupled with an Oregon loss at Washington would get Sherrone Moore’s team into the Big Ten championship game next week. Even with those stakes on the table, the other winning streak means more in Ann Arbor. Michigan has beaten Ohio State four years in a row, and a victory Saturday would give the Wolverines their longest winning streak over the Buckeyes since the 1920s. Ohio State, meanwhile, hasn’t lost since Michigan’s stunning upset in Columbus last November. But even after a national championship and a perfect follow-up season so far, Coach Ryan Day would be feeling the heat if he fell to 1-5 against his school’s most hated opponent.
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Midafternoon
In the spotlight: Vanderbilt at Tennessee
It’s a strange dynamic in Knoxville, where only Vanderbilt still has playoff hopes and all its much bigger in-state rival, Tennessee, can do is try to extinguish them. The Commodores need significant help elsewhere Saturday afternoon and evening — start with losses by Miami, Oklahoma and Alabama — to complete an extremely improbable journey from SEC also-rans to the playoff, but none of it would matter if they can’t beat the Volunteers. Vanderbilt has won in Knoxville three times this century, so it’s far from unprecedented even when the team was less accomplished than it is this season.
Prime time
In the spotlight: Alabama at Auburn
The Iron Bowl is always most fun — at least to outsiders — when one of the rivals’ championship hopes are crushed, and Auburn has another chance to spoil an Alabama season Saturday night. It’s familiar territory: Just in recent history, the Tigers have directly ended the Crimson Tide’s postseason hopes in 2013 (with a play some people may remember) and 2019, and they narrowly missed doing so in 2021 and 2023. Alabama absolutely must win Saturday night to avoid missing the playoff in each of Coach Kalen DeBoer’s first two seasons, so Auburn has a chance to salvage something significant from what has otherwise been a forgettable season.
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