National championship odds as college football enters Rivalry Week

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Welcome to Rivalry Week in college football, where houses are split across the country as Thanksgiving leftovers begin to get slightly tiresome.

Week 13 of the college football season arrives as the final version of the four-team College Football Playoff (CFP) creeps ever closer, with chaos just over the horizon.

The College Football Playoff National Championship trophy (Steph Chambers/Getty Images/File)

With Rivalry Week comes a real possibility that anything can happen as decades of animosity add a new level of intensity to each game. 

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Michigan and Ohio State will square off as top-10 teams for the 26th time in the rivalry, Alabama and Auburn fire up the Iron Bowl, and Oregon State and Oregon will have their 128th meeting.

There are massive implications for the CFP on the line, so let’s take a look at the current national championship odds, according to Caesars Sportsbook.

With all the drama surrounding Michigan, the Wolverines have been able to block out the outside noise as they prepare for their biggest game of the season.

Head coach Jim Harbaugh will not be on the sidelines for Saturday’s massive matchup against No. 2 Ohio State. Last week, the University of Michigan and the Big Ten Conference came to an agreement and avoided any chance of going to a courtroom before Michigan’s game against Maryland.

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh agreed to accept his three-game ban, which canceled a hearing that was set for Friday on whether he could be on the sidelines.

Accepting the three-game suspension means that Harbaugh will not be present against