The seven games with College Football Playoff implications you can't miss in Week 10

Before we embark on our Week 10 college football viewers’ guide, we must start with a public service announcement. No. 1 Ohio State is hosting Penn State (noon ET, Fox). This is also the week of the world’s largest outdoor cocktail party in Jacksonville, Fla., which is likewise accompanied by a football game between No. 5 Georgia and Florida (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC).

We provide that information on the off chance either of those contests produces unexpected happenings as rivalry games can. But is our mission in this space to identify what we think will be the best games to watch. We therefore cannot in good conscience recommend those contests unless you have a rooting interest. We’ll look instead in further detail at these seven games somewhat farther down the rankings but should feature more