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Justin Herbert gets his long-awaited rematch with the league’s top defense after last season’s playoff meltdown against Houston. The Chargers enter Week 16 at 11-4, winners of four straight and seven of eight. Los Angeles has already secured a playoff berth but remains one game behind Denver in the AFC West with a head-to-head tiebreaker in hand. Saturday’s matchup shapes their path toward a potential division title. Houston has won seven straight and sits at 10-5 with a win-and-in scenario. The Texans beat the Chargers 32-12 in last season’s AFC wild-card game, intercepting Herbert four times. Derek Stingley and Kamari Lassiter led a secondary that remains one of the league’s most productive, supported by edge threats Danielle Hunter and Will

Penn State and Clemson are in a bowl most people didn’t picture for either program back in August. Both started with playoff-level expectations, both flirted with disaster, and now both show up at Yankee Stadium trying to make a messy season look a little cleaner in the final box score. Penn State is 6-6 after firing James Franklin in October, then clawing back to bowl eligibility under interim coach Terry Smith. Clemson is 7-5, finished strong, and still has Cade Klubnik playing, but they’re also dealing with a heavy wave of opt-outs and injury absences on both sides of the ball. This is the Pinstripe Bowl in the Bronx, on Saturday, December 27 at 12:00 PM ET, with ABC carrying

Pitt and East Carolina show up in Annapolis with the same 8-4 record, but the teams are arriving in very different shape. Pitt is mostly intact and still looks like a normal version of itself, even after a rough finish that pushed them out of bigger bowl conversations. East Carolina is dealing with departures at the exact positions bettors care about most: quarterback, play-caller, top targets, and now the lead running back. This is the Military Bowl at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Saturday, December 27 at 11:00 AM ET on ESPN. It’s a morning kick in Maryland, outdoors, and the market has already priced ECU like a team that’s trying to reinvent itself in two weeks. Pitt is laying 6,

Florida International is in a spot the program hasn’t seen in a while. The Panthers are back in a bowl for the first time in six years, they closed the regular season with four straight wins, and now they get a real chance to put a stamp on Willie Simmons’ first season in Miami. FIU is 7-5, and the upside is obvious. They’re playing loose, the locker room sounds bought in, and they’ve got one of the better bowl-game running backs in the country. UTSA is 6-6 and feels like a higher-variance team than its reputation suggests. Jeff Traylor’s program is used to bowls and used to winning them, but this season has been inconsistent. Still, the offense can absolutely