This is what happens when conferences schedule all meaningful games at the end of the season.
October and its last couple of weeks of drab scheduling are over. Now onto the finish where the next month will be a sprint of competitive football.
1) #4 LSU at #7 Alabama (-6), 7 p.m., CBS
Here it is... "The Game of the Centrury III (of the last four years)" If the season ended today, neither of these teams would play in the conference title game. As SBNation's Steven Godfrey said cheekily earlier this week, "One team has a running back, the other was beat by a team that was beat by Memphis.