Instead of pouting about the lack of Top 25 matchups this weekend, let’s raise our glass and toast to something we don’t see every day: two historic nonconference rivalry games.



Unfortunately, it is the last iteration of Pitt-Penn State for the foreseeable future — going on hiatus after its 100th edition — but we’ll take it for now, along with Iowa-Iowa State, which could be the best matchup of the day. And we’d like to remind administrators at Texas and Texas A&M as well as at Missouri and Kansas that these games are good for college sports. Cough, cough.



And there’s plenty more to watch this Saturday, even if we’ll have to cross state lines to do so.



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