College football Week 7 bowl projections: Oklahoma, Texas put Big 12 Playoff hopes on line

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Sporting News' Week 7 bowl projections are here, and it features the usual combination of Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State in our projected College Football Playoff field.

Oklahoma can solidify its Playoff case with a victory against one-loss Texas in the Red River Rivalry this week. The Sooners have three Playoff appearances, and that would help hold off the momentum for two SEC teams to make the final cut. Week 7 is full of matchups that could shake up the landscape, so stay tuned.

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The 2019 college postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the national title game on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. This year's semifinal games will be on Dec. 28. The first College Football Playoff Rankings will be released on Nov. 5.

Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here, and they will be updated each week during the college football season. Our projections heading into Week 7 of the college football season:

Week 7 college football bowl projections

DATE BOWL TEAMS
Dec. 20 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Western Michigan vs. Southern Miss
Dec. 20 DXL Frisco Bowl Toledo vs. Cincinnati
Dec. 21 Gildan New Mexico Bowl Louisiana Tech vs. San Diego State
Dec. 21 AutoNation Cure Bowl Georgia State vs. UCF
Dec. 21 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl MTSU vs. Temple
Dec. 21 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl Central Michigan vs. Troy
Dec. 21 Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl Wyoming vs. USC
Dec. 21 R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Western Kentucky vs. Appalachian State
Dec. 23 Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl UAB vs. Memphis
Dec. 24 SoFi Hawai'i Bowl BYU vs. Hawaii
Dec. 26 Walk-On's Independence Bowl Cal* vs. Syracuse
Dec. 26 Quick Lane Bowl Maryland vs. Louisville
Dec. 27 Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman Army* vs. Tulane
Dec. 27 New Era Pinstripe Bowl Nebraska vs. North Carolina
Dec. 27 Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl West Virginia vs. Ole Miss
Dec. 27 SDCU Holiday Bowl Arizona vs. Michigan State
Dec. 27 Cheez-It Bowl Washington State vs. Kansas State
Dec. 28 Camping World Bowl TCU vs. Pittsburgh
Dec. 30 SERVPRO First Responders Bowl Iowa State vs. Stanford*
Dec. 30 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl Colorado* vs. Virginia Tech
Dec. 30 Redbox Bowl Arizona State vs. Iowa
Dec. 31 Belk Bowl South Carolina vs. Florida State
Dec. 31 Hyundai Sun Bowl Washington vs. Wake Forest
Dec. 31 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi State
Dec. 31 Valero Alamo Bowl Utah vs. Baylor
Dec. 31 NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl Louisiana vs. Air Force
Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Auburn vs. Michigan
Jan. 1 Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl Florida vs. Penn State
Jan. 2 Birmingham Bowl SMU vs. Liberty*
Jan. 2 TaxSlayer Bowl Texas A&M vs. Minnesota
Jan. 3 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Miami vs. Utah State
Jan. 4 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Texas Tech vs. Navy
Jan. 6 Mobile Alabama Bowl Ohio vs. UL-Monroe
*No conference tie-in to bowl

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College Football Playoff/New Year’s Day Six projections

Dec. 28 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Notre Dame vs. Boise State
Dec. 30 Capital One Orange Bowl Virginia vs. LSU
Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Oregon vs. Wisconsin
Jan. 1 Allstate Sugar Bowl Georgia vs. Texas
Dec. 28 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl (semifinal) Clemson vs. Ohio State
Dec. 28 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (semifinal) Alabama vs. Oklahoma

College Football Playoff championship projection

Jan. 13 College Football Playoff championship Clemson vs. Alabama

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.