College football bowl projections for Week 8: Georgia, Oklahoma title game lining up

Bill Bender

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There are seven weeks left until the College Football Playoff committee will pick the four playoff teams on Dec. 5.

Sporting News will have bowl projections each week leading up to the event. This year’s bowl season with a schedule that includes 42 bowl games between FBS teams. The College Football Playoff championship game is Jan. 10 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The semifinals are Dec. 31 at the Capital One Orange Bowl and Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.

Our bowl projection is for how we believe the rest of the season will play out.

MORE: Week 8 picks against the spread | Who's next at LSU?

For now, we think Georgia will beat Alabama in the SEC championship game. That is the piece that would theoretically open a playoff spot for Cincinnati, which is the same projection we had last week. Ohio State still is our pick to win the Big Ten, and Oregon will trip up in Pac-12 play again. All that could change over the next seven weeks.

SN has projections for all 42 bowl games here, and they will be updated throughout the season:

College football bowl projections for Week 8 

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Dec. 17 Bahamas Bowl Western Michigan vs. FAU
Dec. 17 Cure Bowl Troy vs. Memphis
Dec. 18 RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl Fresno State vs. Liberty*
Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl Nevada vs. UTEP
Dec. 18 Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl BYU vs. Charlotte
Dec. 18 Lendingtree Bowl Ball State vs. Coastal Carolina
Dec. 18 Los Angeles Bowl San Diego State vs. Arizona State
Dec. 18 R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl South Alabama vs. UTSA
Dec. 20 Myrtle Beach Bowl Appalachian State vs. East Carolina
Dec. 21 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Miami, Ohio vs. Colorado State
Dec. 21 Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl Northern Illinois vs. Boise State
Dec. 22 Armed Forces Bowl Army* vs. Marshall
Dec. 23 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl Washington State vs. UAB
Dec. 24 Hawai'i Bowl Air Force vs. SMU
Dec. 25 Camellia Bowl Kent State vs. Louisiana
Dec. 27 Quick Lane Bowl Tulsa vs. Maryland
Dec. 27 Military Bowl North Carolina vs. Stanford*
Dec. 28 TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl Houston vs. Mississippi State
Dec. 28 First Responder Bowl TCU vs. Georgia Tech
Dec. 28 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Kansas State vs. Tennessee
Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl USC vs. Louisville
Dec. 28 Guaranteed Rate Bowl Miami* vs. Texas Tech
Dec. 29 Fenway Bowl Temple vs. Boston College
Dec. 29 Pinstripe Bowl Northwestern vs. Virginia
Dec. 29 Cheez-It Bowl Iowa State vs. Virginia Tech
Dec. 29 Valero Alamo Bowl UCLA vs. Baylor
Dec. 30 Duke's Mayo Bowl Minnesota vs. Clemson
Dec. 30 Transperfect Music City Bowl Wisconsin vs. Auburn
Dec. 30 SRS Las Vegas Bowl Utah vs. Purdue
Dec. 31 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl Arkansas vs. Pitt
Dec. 31 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Oregon State vs. Wake Forest
Dec. 31 Arizona Bowl Central Michigan vs. Utah State
Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Michigan State vs. Kentucky
Jan. 1 Vrbo Citrus Bowl Penn State vs. Texas A&M
Jan. 4 Texas Bowl Texas vs. Florida

*Denotes not tied to bowl game

College Football New Year's Six projections

Dec. 30 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl Notre Dame vs. NC State
Jan. 1 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl Ole Miss vs. Michigan
Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game Oregon vs. Iowa
Jan. 1 Allstate Sugar Bowl Oklahoma State vs. Alabama
Dec. 31 Capital One Orange Bowl (semifinal) Cincinnati vs. Georgia
Dec. 31 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (semifinal) Oklahoma vs. Ohio State

College Football Playoff championship projection

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Jan. 10 College Football Playoff championship Georgia 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.