College football is poised to own the Friday and Saturday in between Christmas and New Year's Eve this year with a strong slate of bowl games and the Playoff semifinals. Many of the eight-, nine-, and even 10-win teams of college football's Power 5 conferences are squaring off, which tends to make for interesting matchups that carry some stakes.
The Playoff games are the real prize, of course, and will play back-to-back on Saturday night, December 29. The spreads in these games are high, with Vegas-favored Clemson and Alabama generally drawing massive betting penalties to even out the lines, but they are facing 12-1 Oklahoma and 12-0 Notre Dame, so these are hardly no-contests.