Here are the 20 best games you can't afford to miss in 2016

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One of my favorite things about college football is that before the season starts, you never know quite where it will take you. In 2014, I never would have guessed I’d be covering a game involving No. 1 Mississippi State. Last year at this time we were sure TCU-Baylor would be the Big 12 Game of the Year. Oklahoma ruined that. A year later, four of the Sooners’ first five games appear on my preseason list of the 20 best games in 2016. There’s also a whole lot of Ohio State, Michigan and (of course) Alabama. But of course, those teams have to win their early-season games for the ones in October and November to live up to their billing.