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SI's Top 10: Rivalry Week Blows Open College Football Playoff Landscape

How’s that for a rivalry week? The regular season’s final week is something sacred in college football—and boy, did it ever deliver in the Top 10. We got a classic in the Iron Bowl and memorable versions of The Game and Bedlam all with Top 10 implications.

The College Football Playoff race could get squirrely from here, but the stage is set heading into next weekend’s conference championship game. Yes, you could say that college football was becoming too stale, and now we look at a Playoff that definitely won’t have Ohio State or Clemson in it and might not even have Alabama in it if this weekend’s performance is any sign of things to come.