Today's College Football Thread -- Conference Championship Edition [View All]

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The final week of the college football regular season today, with conference championship games, rivalry games, and one non-conference game with BCS implications.

The ACC Championship Game kicks off first: Boston College plays Virginia Tech. BC pulled out a win earlier this season, scoring two touchdowns in the last couple of minutes the overcome a 10-0 deficit.

The SEC Championship Game has the afternoon slot: LSU, coming off an overtime loss against Arkansas, plays Tennessee, coming off an overtime win at Kentucky.

The Big 12 Championship Game is at 7 (Central Time): Missouri, ranked #1 and potentially one game away from the BCS National Championship Game, plays my Oklahoma Sooners, who beat Mizzou earlier this year, and if not for a QB's concussion on the first offensive play against Texas Tech, would probably be number one themselves. (Alas :()

Those are the BCS Conference Championship Games, but there are a couple others as well:

The MAC Championship pits Miami of Ohio against Central Michigan. The winner goes to the Motor City Bowl.

The Conference USA Championship features Tulsa against Central Florida. The winner goes to the Liberty Bowl.

It's not technically a CCG, but the winner of the Troy-Florida Atlantic Game will win the Sun Belt Conference and go to the New Orleans Bowl.

It's rivalry week for several Pac-10 schools:

Arizona hosts Arizona State (who still has a shot at the Pac-10 title)
Oregon hosts Oregon State (ah, the Civil War)
Stanford hosts Cal (the 25th anniversary of the "Stanford Band" game)
USC hosts UCLA (and wins the PAC 10 if they win today)

There are two rivalries back east that are important as well:

The Backyard Brawl is important because if West Virginia beats Pitt they go to the BCS National Championship Game.
Army-Navy is important because it's Army-Navy.

After all of that, the nightcap has Washington playing at Hawaii. Washington may not be the best team in the Pac 10, but they did beat Hawaii's fellow mid-major power Boise State earlier this year. If Hawaii wins they likely earn a Sugar Bowl berth--lose and they probably wind up in the Humanitarian Bowl.

What today lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quantity. :woohoo: Seems to me a few of these games deserve threads of their own, but I didn't want to overlook some of the other great rivalries either. So what game are you looking forward to today?