College football’s top 25 games of 2024: SEC, Big Ten showdowns headline biggest clashes of fall

The 2024 college football season comes with groundbreaking changes, and while the new-look sport will take some getting used to, perhaps the greatest benefit of conference realignment and College Football Playoff expansion is the enormous amount of high-profile games. Each of the power conferences will feature ranked-on-ranked battles on a near weekly basis, and with more teams in the playoff hunt late in the season, implications for November games from coast to coast will be tremendous.

Rivalry games, marvelous non-conference battles, new league showdowns and cross-country road trips headline the marquee games for the upcoming campaign, which will produce the most highly-tested national champion the sport has ever seen. The team that raises the CFP trophy will have endured as many as 17 games.

With the on-field product rising to an all-time high and the stakes becoming greater for more teams outside of the traditional national championship footprint, college football will be even more of a spectacle this fall than in years past.

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Here are the top 25 games of the 2024 college football season: