College football Week 8 preview
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The unofficial midway point of the 2025 college football season begins on Saturday with plenty of intriguing matchups in Week 8. Twenty-three of the teams ranked in the latest AP Top 25 poll will be in action this weekend, including five ranked-on-ranked matchups.
We’ve got a huge matchup to start the day, with the No. 10 LSU Tigers facing off with the No. 17 Vanderbilt Commodores.
College football's deepest league still has a significant number of teams in the mix to make the 12-team CFP field.
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Unpacking Vanderbilt football's College Football Playoff chances with earliest bowl eligibility
Vanderbilt football reached bowl eligibility with a 31-24 win over LSU at FirstBank Stadium on Oct. 18. The Commodores (6-1, 2-1 SEC) will officially be playing in the postseason − not just the Birmingham Bowl, like last year, but potentially the College Football Playoff.
The No. 14 Oklahoma Sooners face the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C.
No. 5 Ole Miss (6-0, 3-0 SEC) will take on the Georgia Bulldogs in a Top-10 SEC showdown with an opportunity to further cement the program's College Football Pl
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Paul Finebaum Names ‘Most Intriguing’ Week 8 College Football Matchup — and It’s Not in the SEC
Week 8 of the 2025 college football season features five ranked matchups, including three within the SEC, but the SEC Network's Paul Finebaum is looking elsewhere for his most intriguing matchup.
Alabama has three ranked opponents left, but each of those games is at Bryant-Denny Stadium, where Kalen DeBoer hasn’t lost. The Crimson Tide show little resemblance to the team that flopped in Week 1 against Florida State. They look more like the SEC’s best team.