It’s the offseason, so high-profile future matchups are seemingly announced every other day. Georgia, for example, apparently wants to play ever power in the country by the time your toddler enters high school: Who’s hyped for Georgia vs. Clemson in 2033!?

Those games are fun to talk about in the abstract. In the time in between, fans generally like to gabble about their team’s high-profile non-conference matchup the upcoming season. Tickets for LSU's trip to Texas can’t be found for less than $250 on the secondary market, and other games like Georgia vs. Notre Dame, Florida vs. Miami, Auburn vs. Oregon and Texas A&M vs. Clemson are already drawing plenty of hype.

This is justified.

Those marquee non-conference games give us an early window into the legitimacy of 2019 contenders.

Yet … those aren’t the only highlight games on the schedule before we enter conference play. In today’s Thursday 10 let’s look at a few non-conference games (ignoring annual matchups) that won’t get much buzz nationally but deserved to be followed closely.