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Best college football games of the 2023 season

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Through all of the off-the-field nonsense and drama it forces us to weather -- conference realignment and increasing rich-get-richer tendencies, debates over player compensation and recruiting calendars, recruiting itself, comical coach buyouts and increasingly silly coaching carousels, playoff expansion -- one thing remains certain: On the field, college football is still absolutely incredible, nonsense of the absolute best kind.

The 2023 season hit all the notes we seek. Some of the best rivalry games gave us some of the best moments, and the College Football Playoff gave us a couple too. From early September to early January, and from the small schools to the biggest, we got what we wanted out of this fall.