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.
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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 |
