Ah rivalry week.

Such possibility, such excitement.

But if the past few weeks have been any indication, this might just be the most boring rivalry week in the history of college football.

The season has been just bereft of upsets, and there’s no good reason to think that this weekend will be different, but we can still hold out the smallest bit of hope.

This year’s Thanksgiving Day game, Texas-Texas A&M could either be a great sign or a sign of the same old same old for this year.

In beating the Aggies by 10, the Longhorns clinched an undefeated regular season, but had a bunch of trouble doing it.

Maybe this means that other favorite will have more trouble and falter down the stretch, namely this weekend.

On the other hand, the Longhorns won.

And so, maybe this rivalry weekend will just be another in a long line of upset-free weekends, but three are certainly chances scattered around the college football scene this weekend.

No. 2 Alabama travels to Auburn for the Iron Bowl, which is always a good chance for one team to make their season with just one victory, this year that would be the result of a Tiger victory over the Tide.

No. 1 Florida welcomes Florida State in a toned-down version of this instate rivalry, seeing as the recent misfortunes of the Seminoles have the teams going in very different directions this season.

BCS hopefuls No. 7 Georgia Tech and No. 12 Oklahoma State face off against instate rivals as well, Georgia and Oklahoma respectively, and could falter here late in the season.

The Big East – suddenly the best conference race in the country other than the Pac-10 – all three of its top teams in action on Friday, including West Virginia and Pittsburgh in the Backyard Brawl.

Overall this rivalry week’s got some potential, and by this point in the season, we’d take just about anything to get some excitement with this season already.

Enjoy.