The second College Football Playoff rankings will be released Tuesday, offering clues as to who might be this year's semifinalist heading into Week 11.
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 11. We have our four picks, and it's a blockbuster field that features Alabama and Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and Notre Dame and Georgia in the Rose Bowl Game.
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Sporting News has projections for every bowl game. Here they are:
Week 11 college football bowl projections
| DATE | BOWL GAME | PROJECTED TEAMS |
| Dec. 16 | R+L Carrier New Orleans Bowl | Louisiana-Lafayette vs. North Texas |
| Dec. 16 | AutoNation Cure Bowl | Northern Illinois vs. Georgia State |
| Dec. 16 | Las Vegas Bowl | Cal vs. Boise State |
| Dec. 16 | Gildan New Mexico Bowl | San Diego State vs. Western Kentucky |
| Dec. 16 | Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | Western Michigan vs. Troy |
| Dec. 19 | Boca Raton Bowl | SMU vs. Marshall |
| Dec. 20 | Frisco Bowl | Temple vs. Ohio |
| Dec. 21 | Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | South Florida vs. FIU |
| Dec. 22 | Popeyes Bahamas Bowl | Toledo vs. Florida Atlantic |
| Dec. 22 | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | Central 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. Utah State |
| Dec. 26 | Cactus Bowl | Kansas State vs. Wyoming |
| Dec. 26 | Quick Lane Bowl | Indiana vs. Boston College |
| Dec. 26 | Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl | Texas Tech vs. UTSA |
| Dec. 27 | Independence Bowl | Southern Miss vs. Arizona State |
| Dec. 27 | New Era Pinstripe Bowl | Iowa vs. Louisville |
| Dec. 27 | Texas Bowl | West Virginia vs. Washington State |
| Dec. 27 | Foster Farms Bowl | Arizona vs. Northwestern |
| Dec. 28 | Military Bowl by Northrop Grunman | Navy vs. Georgia Tech |
| Dec. 28 | Camping World Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Syracuse |
| Dec. 28 | Valero Alamo Bowl | Iowa State vs. USC |
| Dec. 28 | SDCCU Holiday Bowl | Stanford vs. Michigan |
| Dec. 29 | Belk Bowl | Virginia vs. Missouri |
| Dec. 29 | Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | N.C. State vs. Kentucky |
| Dec. 29 | Cotton Bowl | Oklahoma vs. LSU |
| Dec. 30 | TaxSlayer Bowl | Virginia Tech vs. South Carolina |
| Dec. 30 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Texas vs. Mississippi State |
| Dec. 30 | Hyundai Sun Bowl | Oregon vs. Wake Forest |
| Dec. 30 | Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl | Colorado State vs. Arkansas State |
| Dec. 30 | Fiesta Bowl | Washington vs. Wisconsin |
| Dec. 30 | Orange Bowl | Ohio State vs. Miami |
| Jan. 1 | Outback Bowl | Penn State vs.Texas A&M |
| Jan. 1 | Citrus Bowl | Michigan State vs. Auburn |
| Jan. 1 | Peach Bowl | Central Florida vs. TCU |
College Football Playoff projections
| BOWL GAME | PROJECTED TEAMS |
| Rose Bowl Game (Playoff semifinal) | Notre Dame vs. Georgia |
| Sugar Bowl (Playoff semifinal) | Clemson vs. Alabama |
| College Football Playoff championship | Alabama vs. Notre Dame |
