Another week is upon the college football watching public, and with the calendar now turning to November, the games have never meant more as things move toward the culmination of the regular season and ultimately the College Football Playoff.

With just a few games left in the season, the stakes are high, conference titles will be won and lost, and coaches will fight for their jobs. Both the Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers have big time matchups this week against the LSU Tigers and Vanderbilt Commodores respectively, but outside the state there’s some great action in the sport as well.

Though it may be a weaker slate in the SEC, there’s still a ton of interest and a couple of really tremendous matchups. Here are three both in and out of the conference you need to have an eye on this week.

#5 Georgia @ Mississippi State

11:00 a.m. CST

Ordinarily, this would not be a game many have their eye on, but both of these teams have made it a habit this season to find themselves in all-time classics. In SEC play, both Bulldogs have played pretty much all one possession games, with the difference of course being Georgia continuously finding a way to win and Mississippi State the opposite.

Is this finally the upset fans in Starkville have waited for all year after heartbreakers against both Tennessee and Texas, or will Georgia find a way to survive once again? Kirby Smart’s group is favored by less than double digits in what should be another great game.

#3 Texas A&M @ #22 Missouri

2:30 p.m. CST

The Aggies have become one of the stories of the season in year two under Mike Elko, mowing their way through the schedule en route to an 8-0 start and look poised to play in the SEC Championship game for the first time in the history of the program. Keeping that goal on track starts this week with a road test against a battered Tigers team which is trying to keep its own season alive.

Texas A&M is favored by roughly a touchdown and no one to this point has shown any signs of being able to slow them down. If that trend continues, the Aggies will be 9-0 but it should be a good one in Columbia.

#9 Oregon @ #20 Iowa

2:30 p.m. CST

In an SEC slate that is not exactly full of action outside of the previous two matchups, the Ducks head into Iowa for a game that will have playoff implications written all over it. The Hawkeyes have done a wonderful job of forcing their opponents this season into ugly slugfests, which is of course exactly the way they want to play.

If Iowa can find a way to take down Oregon at home this week — they are roughly a touchdown underdog — it would throw a grenade into the race for the playoff and put the Ducks on the brink while throwing the Hawkeyes right back into the thick of it. Even though it’s not an SEC game, this is one worth paying attention to.

It should be another tremendous slate of football across this country this weekend.