Week 14 bowl projections: Auburn moves in College Football Playoff for now

Bill Bender

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Conference championship week is here, meaning we're one step closer to the College Football Playoff.

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.

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Sporting News is ready for Week 14. We have Clemson vs. Auburn in the Sugar Bowl and Oklahoma vs. Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl Game. We also have the Tigers and Sooners in the championship game, for at least a week. Georgia and Miami control their destiny, and Ohio State and Alabama are still in the mix.

Sporting News has projections for every game. Here they are (teams in bold are confirmed to their bowls): 

Week 14 college football bowl projections 

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

College Football Playoff projections

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

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.