We're now 11 weeks through the 2018 college football schedule, meaning we're just three weeks out before the 40-game 2018 bowl season is announced. Sporting News, of course, has projections for all of those bowls.
It's Week 12, and the third College Football Playoff rankings will be unveiled this week. Michigan remains the best one-loss team on the board, and the Wolverines are penciled in to face Alabama in the Cotton Bowl Classic for now.
MORE: Sporting News' Week 12 Power Rankings
Notre Dame and Clemson are slated to face off in the Capital One Orange Bowl. The winners will play in the College Football Playoff championship game in Santa Clara, Calif., on Jan. 7. The New Year's Day Six remains the same for now.
Here are our projections for every bowl game:
Week 12 College football bowl projections
| Date | Bowl | Projected teams |
| Dec. 15 | Gildan New Mexico Bowl | San Diego State vs. FAU |
| Dec. 15 | AutoNation Cure Bowl | Louisiana-Monroe vs. USF |
| Dec. 15 | Las Vegas Bowl | Utah State vs. USC |
| Dec. 15 | Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | Troy vs. Nevada |
| Dec. 15 | New Orleans Bowl | Louisiana vs. Louisiana Tech |
| Dec. 18 | Cheribundi Tart Boca Raton Bowl | Ohio vs. FIU |
| Dec. 19 | Frisco Bowl | Eastern Michigan vs. Temple |
| Dec. 20 | Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | Middle Tennessee State vs. Memphis |
| Dec. 21 | Bahamas Bowl | Marshall vs. Northern Illinois |
| Dec. 21 | Potato Bowl | Toledo vs. Boise State |
| Dec. 22 | Birmingham Bowl | Houston vs. Oregon* |
| Dec. 22 | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | Army vs. Cincinnati |
| Dec. 22 | Dollar General Bowl | Georgia Southern vs. Buffalo |
| Dec. 22 | Hawaii Bowl | Hawaii vs. UAB |
| Dec. 26 | First Responder Bowl | North Texas vs. BYU |
| Dec. 26 | Quick Lane Bowl | Indiana vs. Western Michigan |
| Dec. 26 | Cheez-It Bowl | Baylor vs. Cal |
| Dec. 27 | Walk-On's Independence Bowl | Miami (Fla.) vs. South Carolina |
| Dec. 27 | New Era Pinstripe Bowl | Georgia Tech vs. Purdue |
| Dec. 27 | Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl | Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M |
| Dec. 28 | Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | Duke vs. Missouri |
| Dec. 28 | Camping World Bowl | Iowa State vs. N.C. State |
| Dec. 28 | Arizona Bowl | Appalachian State vs. Fresno State |
| Dec. 28 | Valero Alamo Bowl | Texas vs. Utah |
| Dec. 29 | Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl | LSU vs. UCF |
| Dec. 29 | Belk Bowl | Virginia vs. Auburn |
| Dec. 31 | Military Bowl | SMU vs. Boston College |
| Dec. 31 | Hyundai Sun Bowl | Pitt vs. Arizona State |
| Dec. 31 | San Francisco Bowl | Iowa vs. Stanford |
| Dec. 31 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Tennessee |
| Dec. 31 | Holiday Bowl | Wisconsin vs. Washington |
| Dec. 31 | TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | Michigan State vs. Kentucky |
| Jan. 1 | Outback Bowl | Northwestern vs. Mississippi State |
| Jan. 1 | Citrus Bowl | Penn State vs. Florida |
| Jan. 1 | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | Syracuse vs. West Virginia |
| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl Game | Ohio State vs. Washington State |
| Jan. 1 | AllState Sugar Bowl | Oklahoma vs. Georgia |
MORE: SN's Week 12 Playoff picture
College Football Playoff predictions
| Dec. 29 | Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic | Michigan vs. Alabama |
| Dec. 29 | Capital One Orange Bowl | Clemson vs. Notre Dame |
| Jan. 7 | College Football Playoff championship | Alabama vs. Clemson |
