Predicting the 5 biggest games of college football Week 9

It’s Week 9 of the College Football season and here are our predictions for the top 10 games of the week. 

The college football season is just about to reach the most wonderful time of the year. The College Football Playoff rankings come out on Tuesday and there are some consequential games during Week 9.

College Gameday will be in East Lansing for the top-10 showdown between the Wolverines and the Spartans, but that’s far from the only interesting matchup.

In fact, College Football Week 9 is loaded with interesting games and we are going to predict each of the top 10 — at least the 10 that will have the biggest impact on the College Football Playoff.

If you are wondering about the when and where of all the big Week 9 college football matchups, here’s a look at how to binge-watch this week.

And now, here’s a look at the 10 biggest games of Week 9 as well as predictions for each of them.

First, we start with our quick picks (6-10).

Quick Picks

(Predictions for Week 9 College Football matchups that just missed the top 5)

UCLA at UTAH — Chip Kelly’s team just can’t be trusted to win this game at Utah and after a bad loss to Oregon State, the Utes rebound and keep control of first in Pac-12 West.

Iowa at Wisconsin — The Badgers are back to playing their brand of football and they pull the upset in a 20-17 slugfest.

Kentucky at Mississippi State — Kentucky keeps rolling towards a NY6 bowl with a road win. Wildcats take it 24-17.

SMU at Houston — Might be one of the most entertaining games of the day. The Mustangs win a shootout behind Tanner Mordecai, 35-31.

North Carolina at Notre Dame — North Carolina is good enough to win this game but too inconsistent to pull it off. Notre Dame wins 27-24.

Here we go with the top five.