This season, Vanderbilt's Diego Pavia has emerged as one of college football's top quarterbacks. As Texas coach Steve Sarkisian put it Monday, "Obviously, the quarterback is the tip of the spear."

Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia burst onto the national scene last year like a lightning bolt, helping the lowly Commodores go from 2-10 in 2023 to 7-6 and bowl-eligible in 2024.

For week 10 of college football, the No. 20 Texas Longhorns will face off against the No. 9 Vanderbilt Commodores at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

After a wild Week 9 brought another round of big coaching changes in college football, it's time to shift our attention forward to Week 10 with some early predictions for this week's biggest games.  The Week 10 slate features a trio of ranked matchups and some of the nation's best getting important tests in conference play.

It was a Saturday of survival across the college football landscape. Ranked teams such as Alabama, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, BYU, Texas and Virginia outlasted daunting challenges to either solidify their positions or move up in the new Associated Press Top 25,