Tuesday is the College Football Playoff committee’s night, and Chicago has two of the best basketball games of November on the side. All times Central.

1. College Football Playoff rankings, 8 p.m., ESPN. This is the big one. Tennessee beat No. 6 Kentucky 34-6 on Saturday. The AP poll still has Alabama No. 7 and the Vols No. 9, and Tennessee beat Alabama 26-10 in Knoxville. The committee says head-to-head counts. Tuesday night we find out if it means it.
2. Ohio at Miami (OH), 7 p.m., ESPN2. Tuesday night MACtion in Oxford. Ohio is 7-2, Miami is 5-4, and Ohio is only a 1.5-point favorite on the road. Earlier, at 6, Western Michigan (6-3) is a 14-point favorite at Akron on CBSSN. If you want football on a Tuesday, this is your football.
3. No. 5 Michigan State vs. No. 2 Duke, 6 p.m., ESPN. The Champions Classic at the United Center in Chicago. Both teams are 2-0 and Duke is a 6.5-point favorite. Tom Izzo in November against a Duke team that’s laying a number on a neutral floor? I’d want those points.
4. No. 3 Illinois at No. 16 Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Peacock. Illinois is a 2.5-point favorite in Lubbock. A top-five team going on the road in the second week of the season is exactly what we should want more of.
5. No. 15 Kansas vs. No. 24 Kentucky, 8:30 p.m., ESPN. The Champions Classic nightcap. Kansas is a 4.5-point favorite. After Saturday in Knoxville, Kentucky fans have earned a basketball night. We’ll see if they get a good one.

Also: No. 1 Florida at Florida State, 5 p.m., ESPN2. The Gators are 9.5-point favorites in Tallahassee.

How Monday went

The Vols beat Radford 70-47 at Food City Center. Terrence Hill Jr. led Tennessee with 18 points, DeWayne Brown II grabbed 12 rebounds and Troy Henderson had 6 assists. Get the starters some minutes, get out healthy, move on.

Indiana beat Syracuse 83-80 in Indianapolis behind 20 points from Markus Burton. Purdue got off the mat, beating Illinois State 76-59 with 20 from Daniel Jacobsen, so Boilermaker fans can breathe again. Minnesota won 63-61 at Cincinnati, and Kyan Evans had 26 points and 10 rebounds. Auburn beat App State 75-53 behind 26 from Tahaad Pettiford.

No picks from us on Tuesday’s games. The rankings talk starts the second the committee is done. Follow along on X @fiveandafade and Instagram. Schedules, scores, lines and TV from ESPN.

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Jeremy Durham is a sports columnist for TriStar Daily and the founder of Five and a Fade.