It's big enough for ESPN GameDay.
It's big enough for Saturday night's primetime slot on ABC.
No. 7 Tennessee at No. 12 Georgia?
It's bigger than those TV platforms. It's the biggest game in all of college football this weekend, one of the most seismic events of the entire season and the biggest game of Josh Heupel's four-year career atop Rocky Top.
Why?
Consider: If the Vols win, they basically stamp out Georgia's season with two weeks left to play and should -- read this Warde Manuel, SHOULD -- be the top-ranked SEC team in next week's College Football Playoff Rankings.
The Bulldogs would be a three-loss squad, have no path to the SEC Championship and rooting for arcane, diabolical scenarios that "maybe, possible, might" come to pass in order to have any hope for an at-large College Football Playoff bid.
Not happening. Too much ground, too many teams for Georgia to overcome.
Kirby Smart's Bulldogs haven't missed the CFP in consecutive years since they were shut out from 2018-20. They're in dire jeopardy right now.
However, if the Bulldogs get unleashed at home between the hedges Saturday night, don't turn over the ball (looking at you, Carson Beck) and display the form that helped them dominate Texas, they're very much alive and create indigestion throughout college football. Smart's squad has defeated each of Heupel's first three Tennessee teams by an average 35-13 margin.
A home win would leave both Georgia and Tennessee among the SEC's two-loss teams, alongside Alabama and Texas A&M, which has just one SEC loss.
It would louden the siren call of SEC denizens, beginning with league honcho Greg Sankey, to view the SEC in the same lens as the Big Ten, which at present is on track to have four teams reach the CFP.
IF ... IF the Big Ten and SEC each got four bids, that would likely still leave some SEC team with hurt feelings and zero motivation for the Citrus Bowl.
More importantly, it would gobble up eight of the 12 spots, with then the ACC and Big 12 guaranteed an additional two, a Group of Five team one and then, as of now, Notre Dame the other bid.
That's it. Thus, Smart, who never lacks for finding the right motivational element for his team, can safely let his Bulldogs know: America, everywhere outside of Athens, Georgia, and Bulldog Nation, is almost certainly cheering against Georgia.
Elsewhere, does BYU have a trap game hosting suddenly potent Kansas with snowfall and chilly temps the forecast for LaVell Edwards Stadium?
Does Utah have any shot to salvage a glimmer of this season on the road at Colorado?
Will Eliah Drinkwitz still be in position Sunday to talk about "any SEC team with 10 wins" being deserving of a CFP bid?
Answers, or at least good debate, on all these topics and much more in the latest FootballScoop Weekend Primer: Forecasting College Football's Week 12:
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