College Football 2018: 5 teams on upset alert in Week 12

ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 01: The UCF Knights celebrate defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-27 to win the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on January 1, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 01: The UCF Knights celebrate defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-27 to win the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on January 1, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
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Week 12 features most teams playing in their penultimate games of the season. What teams should be wary of an upset?

The upset watch is back for the second to last week of the regular season. Hard to believe the season has flown by. The anticipation built up all through the summer, the season started and there have been some great games along the way and now we are nearing the end. Never fear as I’m sure the college football deities have more excitement in store for the season’s final weeks.

In Week 11, we only got one of the upset picks right with Northwestern topping Iowa. The Wildcats are Big Ten West champions and heading to Indianapolis for the first time. It appeared we may have predicted a couple more upsets, but Florida made a comeback against South Carolina and Michigan State fizzled against Ohio State in the fourth quarter. Like Alabama, maybe we never pick against Clemson again either.

The SEC is taking their week off before rivalry week. Alabama vs. The Citadel? You can be sure the Crimson Tide are not on upset alert this week, but another SEC team is. Plus the three ranked vs. ranked match-ups appear on the list. As always, the point spreads for each game are provided by Oddsshark.