USA TODAY Sports college football staff picks

The wait is over. The most-anticipated college football game of the season is finally here.

Ten months after Texas A&M stunned Alabama in Tuscaloosa, the Crimson Tide will pay a visit to College Station and face the team that nearly knocked them out of national title contention

Alabama must figure out how to stop Johnny Manziel and the Aggies offense that tore through them early last year. With the entire offseason to prepare, we'll see if Nick Saban has come up with a way to slow down the Heisman Trophy winner.

Though the stakes are high for this game, it is important to note that Alabama last season was able to overcome a loss to make its way to the BCS title game. The loser isn't out of it. But the winner sure gets a big boost on the way to Pasadena.

The other matchup of ranked opponents will be in Lincoln, where Nebraska hosts UCLA. It should be fun watching Bruins quarterback Brett Hundley and Cornhuskers signal caller Taylor Martinez face off against each other.

In other notable games, Texas tries to bounce back from last week's loss to BYU against visiting Mississippi, and Tennessee travels to Oregon.

	PAUL MYERBERG	GEORGE SCHROEDER	ERICK SMITH	EDDIE TIMANUS	DAN UTHMAN	DAN WOLKEN
No. 1 Alabama at Texas A&M	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama
No. 2 Oregon vs. Tennessee	Oregon	Oregon	Oregon	Oregon	Oregon	Oregon
No. 3 Ohio State at California	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State
No. 4 Stanford at Army	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford
No. 7 Louisville at Kentucky	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville
No. 8 LSU vs. Kent State	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU
No. 9 Florida State vs. Nevada	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State
No. 11 Oklahoma State vs. Lamar	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State	Okla. State
No. 12 Michigan vs. Akron	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan
No. 13 Oklahoma vs. Tulsa	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
No. 14 S. Carolina vs. Vanderbilt	South Carolina	South Carolina	South Carolina	South Carolina	South Carolina	South Carolina
No. 15 Nebraska vs. No. 17 UCLA	Nebraska	UCLA	UCLA	UCLA	Nebraska	UCLA
No. 16 N'western vs. Western Michigan	N'western	N'western	N'western	N'western	N'western	N'western
No. 18 Wisconsin at Arizona State	Wisconsin	Arizona State	Wisconsin	Arizona State	Arizona State	Arizona State
No. 21 Notre Dame at Purdue	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
No. 23 Washington vs. Illinois	Washington	Illinois	Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington
No. 24 TCU at Texas Tech	TCU	Texas Tech	TCU	Texas Tech	Texas Tech	TCU
No. 25 Mississippi at Texas	Texas	Texas	Texas	Mississippi	Mississippi	Texas
Last week's record	15-3	16-2	15-3	14-4	16-2	13-5
2013 record	34-6	36-4	35-5	32-8	36-4	33-7