College Football Upset Alert 2021: Championship Week edition

Welcome to Championship Week. This is a special edition of the college football upset alert that looks at some conference title games.

We have everything you could ask for in a college football weekend. Ten championship games, 20 teams, 14 ranked teams. We have rivalries, programs on the rise, some MACtion, and four games with College Football Playoff implications, with one a de facto College Football Playoff game. (It’s not for a championship, but we even get one last Pac-12 After Dark showdown between Cal and USC.)

If you’ve made it to this point, you’re really good. Or in the case of the Big Ten West, someone had to win it.

But really, any team that’s made it here is good enough to call themselves a championship-level team. And if they’re all championship-caliber, is there really such a thing as an upset this weekend?

Yes and no. And that’s why all 10 favorites this weekend are on upset alert.

So what do we do when every favorite is on upset alert? We’ll count down each game from ten to one in order of chances of an upset happening. Ten has the lowest chance while one has the best.

The dishonorable mention goes to Cal, who’s a 4.5 point favorite against USC. This is a battle of 4-7 teams coming off highly disappointing seasons.

Teams on upset alert this season are 55-33. A solid season for the favorites, winning 62.5 percent of the time.

Let’s get to this week.