The heat is on: Ten games with the highest stakes in 2016

Florida has won 11 straight over Tennessee, but if the Vols are going to live up to their preseason hype they’ll need to find a way to finally beat the rival Gators.  10:00 AM ET Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Staff Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Staff Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Imagine the college football schedule is a roulette board and you have a large stack of casino chips. Now, pick the circles where you want to place the most chips. Remember, you’re not selecting necessarily the biggest games or the fiercest rivalries or games guaranteed to shape the national title race. You’re picking the games certain to carry high stakes, no matter what happens between now and kickoff. You are doing this right now, months before preseason camp begins and depth charts are finalized. Most of these contests should fall early in the season, but some later games also fit into the high-stakes category. So what goes into a high-stakes game…

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