There are only three games left in the college football season. That sucks. There's no way around it. If there's a silver lining to that depressing fact, it's that they're College Football Playoff games.

The College Football Playoff semifinals feature classic brands in rare matchups that should make for riveting games leading up to the CFP championship game on Jan. 20. It also features four of the top-five scoring defenses in the FBS.

College football will have consecutive national champions from outside the Sun Belt region for the first time in three decades if Ohio State beats Texas in a playoff semifinal this week.