USA TODAY Sports college football staff picks for Week 3 – USA TODAY
Mississippi upset Alabama last season in Oxford. (Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports)
It’s the first huge weekend of the college football season, with four matchups between ranked opponents.
The biggest showdown comes in Tuscaloosa with No. 2 Alabama hosting No. 11 Mississippi. The Rebels will be seeking a second consecutive victory in the series. Also in the SEC, No. 14 LSU faces 15th-ranked Auburn in Baton Rouge.
There are two other especially intriguing games with No. 10 Notre Dame squaring off against No. 16 Georgia Tech in the first start for quarterback DeShone Kizer. And No. 22 BYU, fresh off two heart-stopping wins, travels to No. 12 UCLA with the difficult task of slowing down freshman quarterback Josh Rosen.
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