Canes-Irish, the Holy War and more: Connelly's 14 favorite games on a monster slate in college football — SkimNews
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- Week 10 is headlined by four top-25 matchups: No. 1 Miami at No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 9 BYU at No. 3 Utah, No. 2 Georgia at No. 10 Ole Miss, and No. 5 Alabama at No. 14 LSU.
- Malachi Toney is out with a high ankle sprain suffered in practice after 85 targets, while no other Miami player had been targeted even 35 times, forcing Darian Mensah to diversify and adding pressure on the defense.
- CJ Carr completed 59% of passes at 10.9 yards per completion with one sack and no picks against SP+ top-25 defenses; Notre Dame's offense ranks second in SP+, and the Irish line moved from -4.5 to -7.5 after Toney's injury news.
- BYU and Utah meet in the Holy War's first top-10 matchup after four ranked meetings in 1994, 2008, 2009 and 2025; Utah is favored by 4.5, down from 6, while BYU has won all three Holy Wars of the 2020s.
- Ole Miss has the nation's best red-zone touchdown rate at 83.9% and allows only 46.9%, compared with Georgia's 70.6% rate allowed, but the Rebels will be without injured running back Kewan Lacy; Georgia's Gunner Stockton averages 8.5 yards per dropback and its defense ranks fifth in yards per play.
- LSU ranks first nationally in sack rate at 11.8%, nearly matching the 11.2% Alabama has allowed over its past four games, while Alabama scored only 27 combined points in its two losses; LSU moved from -4.5 to -6.
- Oregon and Ohio State, the preseason's top two teams, enter their matchup having combined to lose five games, with both sides losing their starting quarterbacks to injury.
Why it matters: After Miami lost Malachi Toney to a high ankle sprain, the Notre Dame line moved from -4.5 to -7.5, with the Irish ranking No. 11 in the initial CFP poll. With the game nearly a must-win for Notre Dame, Miami must diversify without its 85-target receiver while a defense ranked 120th in QBR allowed absorbs added pressure.
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