List: Great Non-Conference Games In The Near Future

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

Call your old drinking buddies, mark your calendars and plan those reunions. There are some serious heavyweight tilts on the way in college football.

And here's a tip: With America's greatest sport trending toward superconferences, the marquee non-league matchups we've grown so used to every September could be headed toward extinction. So listen to me now and hear me later: Get those trips inked soon before the wife locks your balls in the jar every weekend.

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LIST: The Best College Football Games Of The 2010 Season

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Not on the list below are annual non-conference rivalries like Clemson-South Carolina, Notre Dame-USC and Georgia-Georgia Tech. The games below are mostly newer home-and home series set up specifically for television paydays.

Every game on the list is in the books, so get it while you can:

2010
Penn State at Alabama
Clemson at Auburn
Florida State at Oklahoma
Miami at Ohio State
Oklahoma at Cincinnati
UCLA at Texas

2011
Alabama at Penn State
Auburn at Clemson
Cincinnati at Tennessee
Oklahoma at Florida State
Pittsburgh at Iowa
Ohio State at Miami
Texas at UCLA
BYU at Texas
Oregon State at Wisconsin

2012
Boise State at Oregon State
Cincinnati at Ohio State
West Virginia at Florida State
Miami vs. Notre Dame (at Chicago)
Nebraska at UCLA
Notre Dame at Oklahoma
California at Ohio State
Wisconsin at Oregon State
TCU at Oklahoma
Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh
Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech (at Landover, Md.)

2013
Florida State at West Virginia
Georgia at Clemson
Florida at Miami
West Virginia at Michigan State
UCLA at Nebraska
Ohio State at California
Oklahoma at Notre Dame
TCU at LSU
Texas at BYU
Tennessee at Oregon
Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech

2014
LSU at TCU
Virginia Tech at Ohio State
Michigan State at West Virginia
Miami at Nebraska
Clemson at Georgia
Iowa at Pittsburgh
Tennessee at Oklahoma
BYU at Texas
Cincinnati at Ohio State

2015
Cincinnati at Miami
Oklahoma at Tennessee
Pittsburgh at Iowa
Georgia at Oregon
Nebraska at Miami
Ohio State at Virginia Tech
Texas at Notre Dame California at Texas

2016
Michigan State at Alabama
Texas at California
Ohio State at Oklahoma
Oregon at Georgia
Miami at Notre Dame
Notre Dame at Texas
Tennessee at Nebraska
Wisconsin at Virginia Tech

2017
Virginia Tech at Wisconsin
Notre Dame at Miami
Nebraska at Tennessee
Oklahoma at Ohio State
Texas at USC
Alabama at Michigan State
Georgia Tech at Auburn

2018
Auburn at Georgia Tech
USC at Texas
Ohio State at Tennessee
LSU at Oklahoma

2019
Oklahoma at LSU
Notre Dame at Texas
Tennessee at Ohio State

2020
Texas at Notre Dame

Big Balls:
Cincinnati, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Tech

Small Balls:
Alabama, Penn State, Pittsburgh, USC

No Balls:
Florida, Michigan