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The theme of the 2023 college football season: highly entertaining chalk. We spent much of the season thinking the sport’s ruling powers were more vulnerable than usual. Georgia thought hard about losing to South Carolina and Auburn; Ohio State’s offense was far more flawed than normal; Alabama lost in Week 2 and spent most of the season with an all-touchdowns-or-sacks offense; and while Michigan was mostly dominant, the Wolverines were dealing with both two suspensions for their head coach and an acute case of Ain’tPlayedNobodyItis.

Through it all, though, the top teams kept winning. The top four teams in the preseason polls (Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State and Alabama), plus Florida State (eighth), Texas (Big 12 favorite) and Washington and Oregon (two of three Pac-12 favorites), have gone a combined 92-4 — 3-3 against each other and 89-1 against everyone else. The only loss to an outsider: Texas’ late defeat against No. 12 Oklahoma. Not exactly humiliating.

Only four of these teams will make the final four-team College Football Playoff, however, and we’ll find out who those teams are after one last weekend. Will we get one more round of delightful chalk? Might we have a long-awaited upset or two in store? And what the heck happens if we do?

Here’s everything you need to follow during college football’s championship weekend.