Top 15 Non-Conference College Football Games to Watch This Year

Sep 6, 2014; Columbus, OH, USA; Virginia Tech Hokies quarterback Michael Brewer (12) celebrates after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes 35-21at Ohio Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports

Every year, there are a few games that have very intriguing story lines. Here are the top 15 non-conference college football games to watch for 2015.

The new College Football Playoff has dramatically changed the scope of non-conference games. Unless you have a year like last year where there were only six teams clearly in the mix, there will be plenty of years where you have up to 10 teams that could make the postseason.

And it will require non-conference games to determine the difference in many of those cases.

That makes a plethora of non-conference games more interesting and more exciting as we head into the 2015 college football season.

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This year’s batch of non-conference games features yearly rivalry games that are always interesting, quite a few early intriguing match-ups between teams that will likely be ranked at the start of the season, and the rematch of a home-and-home series between two teams.

So revenge, pride, and of course, national title implications are all in these games, and that made selecting the top games very hard. Also, Notre Dame plays all non-conference games, so to cut down on this, we eliminated the games Notre Dame plays against ACC competition given that they are an affiliate of the conference.

But everything else was fair game, and knowing that, here are the top 15 must-watch non-conference college football games for the 2015 season.

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