Week 18’s bout between San Francisco and Seattle will serve as a de facto NFC West title game. The winner will both be crowned division champion and the NFC’s No. 1 seed in the playoffs, while the loser will drop into the conference’s wild-card seeding along with the Rams and Packers.

College basketball went quiet over Christmas break as many players and coaches enjoyed a sliver of solitude in the season to recharge and regroup for the second semester. But the action is back in a big way this weekend starting with a loaded Saturday slate to whet the appetite.