In the evening, No. 10 Alabama got all it could handle from Auburn in the Iron Bowl before escaping with a win and keeping its College Football Playoff hopes alive. The Crimson Tide will meet Georgia in the SEC title game next weekend. Here's how everything played out on the final Saturday of the regular season:

No. 6 Oregon all but locked up its spot in the College Football Playoff with a 26-14 win at rival Washington on Saturday. The Ducks' chances of reaching the Pac-12 title game were dashed before kickoff, but much bigger stakes were on the line as Dan Lanning and Co. chase national postseason goals.

The No. 9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, led by quarterback CJ Carr, face the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025 at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, Calif.

Per tradition, the final week of the college football regular season paired a number of local and long-distance rivals alike, with trophies and bragging rights being bestowed to the winner. One additional -- if admittedly minor -- benefit of claiming a rivalry week victory? The ability to troll your opponent on social media afterward.

There’s hardly a richer or quirkier tradition in college football than rivalry trophies. They're one of the few elements of the game remaining the same in the new era of revenue sharing as decades ago when a 10-team conference was considered full.

Updating College Football Playoff and bowl game projections as rivalry week brought the regular season to a close