The third full Saturday of college football season has arrived and with most conferences now having nine-game schedules, that means that this week will be the final non-conference game for many programs. Aside from a few games here and there around the country, most of the SEC, Big Ten, and other power conferences truly begin their own schedules in earnest next week, with such games as Texas-Texas Tech, Florida-Tennessee, and Wisconsin-Ohio State coming up in seven days.
This week, however, most of these bigger programs are tuning up for conference play with non-conference matchups, often against lesser programs.