The final Saturday of the 2024 college football regular season is loaded with impactful games at both a conference and national level. Twenty top-25 teams will take the field as the day unfolds, with three games featuring ranked opponents facing off against one another.

There’s a lot at stake for the College Football Playoff. Rivalry week only features two games between ranked teams, but don’t let that make you think it won’t be an entertaining weekend of football. Just look at what happened in Week 13 when three SEC teams in the hunt for the playoff all lost to unranked opponents on the road.

SportsLine's model just revealed its college football picks for Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Auburn Tigers in the Iron Bowl 2024

Here are three takeaways from Auburn’s Iron Bowl loss. Auburn found offensive success early and often against Alabama. In the first half alone, it had drives of 52, 56 and 72 yards, but only got points on one of those drives and it came in the way of a 37-yard field goal.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— Kalen DeBoer’s first Iron Bowl was far from the back-and-forth of some shootouts of the past and lacked the theatrics of Nick Saban’s final act in the legendary rivalry last season. Even so, the first-year Alabama coach did something Saban could not: taste victory in his inaugural Alabama-Auburn showdown.