What to watch: Week 12 college football viewing guide

We’ve hit the home stretch of the 2024 college football regular season.

There are just three weeks to go before conference championship week in the first week of December. Week 13 isn’t the most loaded slate, but it does feature two games between ranked opponents and games all over the country that have implications in conference title races.

And once again, those ranked games are in the SEC. The marquee game of the week is in Athens as Georgia plays for its College Football Playoff life against Tennessee. Missouri, meanwhile, tries to keep its CFP flame flickering as a two-score underdog against a South Carolina team that beat Texas A&M two weeks ago.

Here’s what to watch in Week 13. All times are Eastern and all odds are from BetMGM.

Time: Noon | TV: Fox | Line: Colorado -11.5 | Total: 46.5

The Buffaloes’ path to the playoff is clear. Colorado will get a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff if it wins its final four games.

Entering the season, we figured that this game could have playoff impacts but that those impacts would be limited to Utah. Instead, it’s been an injury-filled nightmare season for the Utes again as they’re down to two healthy quarterbacks and lost TE Brant Kuithe to a season-ending injury against BYU in Week 11. QB Brandon Rose made his first career start in the controversial loss to the Cougars and suffered a lower leg injury on the final possession. Freshman Isaac Wilson will take back over as Utah’s starter. He’s appeared in seven games so far this season.

Colorado’s defense should be up to the task of slowing down the depleted Utah offense. Though Shedeur Sanders’ passing prowess and Travis Hunter’s two-way exploits get a lot of Colorado’s headlines, the Buffs’ defensive improvement is the biggest reason why they are in Big 12 contention. Teams are averaging just 217…

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Publish date : 2024-11-14 14:28:38

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