Week 12 bowl projections: Miami, Wisconsin moving up after big wins

Bill Bender

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The College Football Playoff rankings were released on Tuesday, offering clues as to who might be this year's semifinalists heading into Week 12.  

That also affects the 2017-18 college football bowl schedule, which features 40 games between FBS teams and culminates with the 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 12. Georgia and Notre Dame are out. Miami and Wisconsin are in. We have Alabama and Wisconsin in the Sugar Bowl and Oklahoma and Miami in the Rose Bowl Game.

MORE: Week 12 College Football Playoff rankings

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

Week 12 college football bowl projections 

DATE BOWL GAME PROJECTED TEAMS
Dec. 16 R+L Carrier New Orleans Bowl South Alabama vs. MTSU
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 Utah State vs. UTSA
Dec. 16 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Western Michigan vs. Troy
Dec. 19 Boca Raton Bowl Temple vs. Marshall
Dec. 20 Frisco Bowl SMU vs. Toledo
Dec. 21 Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl South Florida vs. FIU
Dec. 22 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl Ohio 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. San Diego 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. North Texas
Dec. 27 Independence Bowl Southern Miss vs. Arizona State
Dec. 27 New Era Pinstripe Bowl Iowa vs. Virginia
Dec. 27 Texas Bowl Iowa State 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 West Virginia vs. Florida State
Dec. 28 Valero Alamo Bowl Oklahoma State vs. Washington
Dec. 28 SDCCU Holiday Bowl Stanford vs. Michigan State
Dec. 29 Belk Bowl Louisville vs. Missouri
Dec. 29 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl N.C. State vs. Mississippi State
Dec. 29 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Ohio State vs. Notre Dame
Dec. 30 TaxSlayer Bowl Virginia Tech vs. South Carolina
Dec. 30 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Texas vs. Kentucky
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 USC vs. TCU
Dec. 30 Orange Bowl Georgia vs. Clemson
Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Penn State vs. Texas A&M
Jan. 1 Citrus Bowl  Michigan vs. LSU
Jan. 1 Peach Bowl Central Florida vs. Auburn

College Football Playoff projections

BOWL GAME PROJECTED TEAMS
Rose Bowl Game (Playoff semifinal) Oklahoma vs. Miami
Sugar Bowl (Playoff semifinal) Wisconsin vs. Alabama
College Football Playoff championship  Alabama vs. Miami

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.