The college football season begins Friday with an appetizer — Cal and Hawaii play in Australia — before one of the tastiest opening weekends in memory. Get a good look at the Associated Press Top 25 now because many of the season’s great games take place in the first weekend of September and will quickly shuffle the polls. There are four matchups of ranked teams in the opening week, plus other goodies such as LSU-Wisconsin at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Notre Dame at Texas and North Carolina vs. Georgia. But in the chase to earn one of four spots in the College Football Playoff, an “elimination” game can come early in non-conference play or late in a league game. We take a look at when Top 25 teams will face their top test: 1. Alabama, Nov. 5 Playing at LSU is scary, but the Tide has won five in a row in the series, not allowing the Tigers to score more than 17 points in any of those games. 2. Clemson, Oct. 29 To win the ACC Atlantic, the Tigers likely will have to win at Florida State for the first time since 2006. 3. Oklahoma, Sept. 17 The…
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