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It's characteristic to have a hush after the ceaseless development to the Alabama-Texas A&m confrontation, an amusement that satisfied the buildup. Also that's, sadly, what we have without much fanfare.

Just two matchups between stacked up groups are on the docket with No. 4 Stanford hosting 23rd-stacked up Arizona State and No. 21 Notre Dame recharging its contention with No. 23 Michigan State.

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The visit by the Sun Devils will be the first huge test for the Cardinal, who have been under the radar around national title contenders.

ASU amazingly escaped against Wisconsin a week ago because of a major directing blunder. It will take more than that to win on The Farm, on the other hand.

The Irish are confronting a Big Ten rival for the third sequential week and require a win to manufacture force and keep their BCS trusts bursting at the seams with diversions against Oklahoma, Arizona State and USC approaching.

The Spartans appear to have settled on sophomore Connor Cook as their quarterback after three amusements. Be that as it may he is making his first way begin on one of school football's greatest stages.

Elsewhere, there are two big games in the SEC with No. 7 LSU facing unbeaten Auburn and Tennessee traveling to No. 18 Florida.
So there's still hope of drama when we least expect it.

	Paul Myerberg	George Schroeder	Erick Smith	Eddie Timanus	Dan Uthman	Dan Wolken
No. 1 Alabama vs. Colorado State	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama
No. 3 Ohio State vs. Florida A&M	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State
No. 4 Clemson at N.C. State	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson
No. 5 Stanford vs. No. 23 Ariz. State	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford
No. 6 Louisville vs. Fla. International	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville
No. 7 LSU vs. Auburn	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU
No. 8 Florida State vs. Beth.-Cookman	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State
No. 9 Texas A&M vs. SMU	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Texas A&M
No. 10 Georgia vs. North Texas	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia
No. 14 Michigan at Connecticut	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan
No. 15 UCLA vs. New Mexico State	UCLA	UCLA	UCLA	UCLA	UCLA	UCLA
No. 16 Northwestern vs. Maine	N'western	N'western	N'western	N'western	N'western	N'western
No. 17 Miami (Fla.) vs. Savannah State	Miami	Miami	Miami	Miami	Miami	Miami
No. 18 Florida vs. Tennessee	Florida	Florida	Florida	Florida	Florida	Florida
No. 19 Baylor vs. Louisiana-Monroe	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor
No. 20 Washington vs. Idaho State	Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington
No. 21 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
No. 25 Fresno State vs. Boise State	Boise State	Boise State	Fresno State	Fresno State	Fresno State	Fresno State
Last week	14-4	16-2	15-3	18-0	17-1	16-2
2013 record	48-10	52-6	50-8	50-8	53-5	49-9