Week 10 bowl projections: Ohio State, Notre Dame move in four-team playoff

Bill Bender

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The first College Football Playoff rankings will be released Tuesday, offering the first clues as to who might be this year's semifinalists. 

The 2017-18 college football bowl schedule features 40 games between FBS teams, which culminates with the College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 8 in Atlanta. This year's semifinals will be played on Jan. 1 for the first time since 2014 at the Rose and Sugar bowls.

Sporting News is ready for Week 10. We have our four picks, and it's a blockbuster field that features Alabama and Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl and Ohio State and Georgia in the Rose Bowl Game. 

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Sporting News has projections for every bowl game. Here they are: 

Week 10 bowl projections 

DATE BOWL GAME PROJECTED TEAMS
Dec. 16 R+L Carrier New Orleans Bowl South Alabama vs. Louisiana Tech
Dec. 16 AutoNation Cure Bowl Northern Illinois vs. Georgia State
Dec. 16 Las Vegas Bowl UCLA vs. Boise State
Dec. 16 Gildan New Mexico Bowl San Diego State vs. Western Kentucky
Dec. 16 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Ohio vs. Troy
Dec. 19 Boca Raton Bowl South Florida vs. Marshall
Dec. 20 Frisco Bowl Southern Miss vs. Central Michigan
Dec. 21 Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl SMU vs. FIU
Dec. 22 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl Toledo vs. Florida Atlantic
Dec. 22 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Western Michigan vs. Fresno State
Dec. 23 Birmingham Bowl Memphis vs. UAB
Dec. 23 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Utah vs. Army
Dec. 23 Dollar General Bowl Akron vs. Appalachian State
Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Houston vs. Air Force
Dec. 26 Cactus Bowl Texas Tech vs. Wyoming
Dec. 26 Quick Lane Bowl Nebraska vs. Boston College
Dec. 26 Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl Arizona State vs. North Texas
Dec. 27 Independence Bowl Virginia vs. Colorado
Dec. 27 New Era Pinstripe Bowl Minnesota vs. Louisville
Dec. 27 Texas Bowl West Virginia vs. Washington State
Dec. 27 Foster Farms Bowl Oregon vs. Iowa
Dec. 28 Military Bowl by Northrop Grunman Navy vs. Georgia Tech
Dec. 28 Camping World Bowl TCU vs. Syracuse
Dec. 28 Valero Alamo Bowl Iowa State vs. Stanford
Dec. 28 SDCCU Holiday Bowl USC vs. Michigan State
Dec. 29 Belk Bowl Wake Forest vs. Florida
Dec. 29 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl N.C. State vs. Kentucky
Dec. 29 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Oklahoma vs. LSU
Dec. 30 TaxSlayer Bowl Northwestern vs. South Carolina
Dec. 30 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Texas vs. Mississippi State
Dec. 30 Hyundai Sun Bowl Arizona vs. Virginia Tech
Dec. 30 Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl Colorado State vs. Arkansas State
Dec. 30 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl Washington vs. Wisconsin
Dec. 30 Capital One Orange Bowl Clemson vs. Penn State
Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Michigan vs. Texas A&M
Jan. 1 Citrus Bowl Miami vs. Auburn
Jan. 1 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Central Florida vs. Oklahoma State

College Football Playoff 

BOWL GAME PROJECTED TEAMS
Rose Bowl Game (Playoff semifinal) Ohio State vs. Georgia
Allstate Sugar Bowl (Playoff semifinal) Notre Dame vs. Alabama
College Football Championship Game Alabama vs. Ohio State

Bill Bender

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Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series for SN. Bender enjoys story-telling, awesomely-bad 80s movies and coaching youth sports.