Hyperbole for the sake of drama is unnecessary. But as realignment begins to reshape how college football looks yet again, Week 7 of the 2022 season is one of the last great weekends in this era.

All five power conferences—the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC—boast a matchup of Top 25 teams.

While that isn't an enormous rarity, it isn't a regular feature of the schedule, either. We're going to bask in the evenly distributed, much-anticipated, coast-to-coast madness.

B/R's six-person expert panel—Max Escarpio, David Kenyon, Adam Kramer, Kerry Miller, Morgan Moriarty and Brad Shepard—is outlining the best of the slate, covering each of those ranked clashes and more.

What's the Best Matchup Outside the Top 25?

Kerry Miller

In the "How bad are things going to get for those teams?" tier of options, you have Miami at Virginia Tech, Arkansas at BYU, Stanford at Notre Dame and Wisconsin and Michigan State. In all four of those games, the loser will have some serious questions to answer, especially if it's Miami, Arkansas, Stanford and/or Michigan State.

There's also an intriguing battle in the ACC between loathed rivals Duke and North Carolina. The 5-1 Tar Heels look like the team to beat in the ACC Coastal, but a loss at Duke would put a huge damper on those expectations and further the inevitability of Clemson winning the ACC title game.

But the clear choice is 4-2 LSU at 4-2 Florida.

Can LSU bounce back from that butt-kicking it took from Tennessee at home last week, or was that just the beginning of a tailspin from a 4-1 start to a 1-6 finish? After this game, the Tigers have back-to-back home games against Ole Miss and Alabama and still need to play at Arkansas and Texas A&M. Things could get ugly in a hurry.

Conversely, Florida is still trying to prove that its season-opening win over then-No. 7 Utah was more than just a fluke. Since then, the Gators have lost to both Kentucky and Tennessee and barely scraped out home victories over South Florida and Missouri. The Anthony Richardson Heisman campaign is thoroughly dead and buried, but the Gators would love to be the one with the first-year head coach that improves to 5-2.

David Kenyon

While LSU and Florida is the clear top choice, the ACC Coastal showdown between Duke and North Carolina is closely behind.

From an outside perspective, Duke entered the season with minimal expectations. First-year coach Mike Elko inherited a program that finished 5-18 over the last two years of David Cutcliffe's tenure. However, the Blue Devils jumped out to a 4-1 start before a close loss to Georgia Tech.

North Carolina, meanwhile, has soared under the leadership of new quarterback Drake Maye. He's a simmering Heisman Trophy candidate with six-game totals of 2,211 yards and 24 touchdowns.

In a wide-open Coastal, the winner of this clash at Duke will pick up a valuable ACC win in a congested race to (likely) meet Clemson in the conference title game.