It’s rivalry week! That means that from Thursday to Saturday night, we have awesome games to fill our holiday weekend with joy!
We made it! Rivalry week is upon us! After back to back awful weeks, packed with games that either didn’t matter or weren’t close, our patience is rewarded this week with a full slate of games, including a whopping 14 that I considered binge-watch worthy. This is, for most teams the final week of the regular season, which, as per usual, means that we’ve got pretty high stakes in quite a few games.
The high stakes battles aren’t just on Saturday either. We have three conference title game deciders on Friday in the AAC, Big 12 and Pac-12, and another two on Saturday, just in this list. We also have quite a few games with inherent stakes, because of the history of the teams, like Ohio State-Michigan, Alabama-Auburn, Utah-BYU and many more.
Before we get into the feast of games this week, let’s look back to last week’s picks. I hit on nine of my 12 picks last week, and while that 75 percent hit rate is my lowest since week five, it does still increase my overall percentage slightly, at least on a decimal level, as it stays at 74 percent on the year.