Two of the three matchups of Associated Press Top 25 teams in Week 12 of the college football season take place in the Southeastern Conference, and the tightly bunched Atlantic Coast Conference and American Conference races should start untangling.
No. 10 Texas visits No. 5 Georgia in the only top-10 matchup on Saturday and No. 11 Oklahoma heads to No. 4 Alabama.
No. 9 Notre Dame goes to No. 23 Pittsburgh with an opportunity to strengthen its College Football Playoff resume. The Fighting Irish put a beat down on Navy last week for their seventh straight win, and the Panthers will be the toughest of their three remaining opponents.
In the ACC, there are five teams with one loss in conference play and two others with a pair of losses. Two of those one-loss teams square off when No. 20 Virginia visits Duke, and two-loss Miami faces a tricky home game against N.C. State, which has wins over Virginia and Georgia Tech.
There also are five one-loss teams in the American, and the jockeying now begins in earnest for spots in the conference title game and possibly the automatic CFP bid that goes to the highest-ranked Group of Five champion.
No. 25 South Florida visits Navy in a matchup of one-loss teams and two-loss Memphis goes to one-loss East Carolina. Tulane is coming off its big win at Memphis and will need to be on point when Florida Atlantic visits. North Texas, the fifth one-loss team, goes on the road to play a UAB team that upset Memphis four weeks ago
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