The 2018 college football season is on the home stretch. Here are five reasons to be excited for college football’s season-concluding rivalry week.
It’s rivalry week in college football. The 2018 season is almost to a close with conference championship games taking shape after Thanksgiving and Army-Navy closing out the 2018 season as it does most years. The bowl season will begin shortly after college football’s greatest game and before you know it the doldrums of summer will be upon us.
This rivalry week is monumental, even if the remaining undefeateds in Alabama, Clemson, Central Florida and Notre Dame aren’t facing ranked opponents. Even with lopsided rankings, those games will always have the chance at being a massive upset creator. Who can play spoiler to their biggest rival’s College Football Playoff hopes?
The big rivalries start on Thursday night as Mississippi State heads to Ole Miss for the Egg Bowl at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. On Friday one of the key matchups of the weekend takes place in Washington at Washington State for the Apple Cup. UCF heads to Tampa to face the USF Bulls in the War on I-4 and in a non-traditional rivalry game Oklahoma heads to Morgantown to face the West Virginia Mountaineers in a battle of top-15 teams.
The biggest rivalry game of the weekend will be played in Columbus, Ohio, as the Michigan Wolverines get on the road to face the Ohio State Buckeyes at noon on Saturday. Jim Harbaugh has to prove that he can beat Urban Meyer, on the road, even with Ohio State looking shaky in 2018.
Here are the five reasons to be excited for rivalry week.