Final college football bowl projections for CFP, every bowl game in 2022-23

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The College Football Playoff pairings will be announced on Sunday, and the other bowl selections will follow. 

MORE: Live CFP rankings | Bowl game tracker

There are a total of 41 bowl games in the 2022-23 college football season before the CFP championship game.

Sporting News has tracked those projections all season, and those changed when No. 11 Utah beat No. 4 USC 47-24 in the Pac-12 championship game. That became more complicated when No. 10 Kansas State beat No. 3 TCU 31-28 in the Big 12 championship game. 

As of now, Sporting News has No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 4 Ohio State in the Chick-fIl-A Peach Bowl and No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 3 TCU in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. There also could be some last minute shake-ups within the New Year's Day Six. Will those projections change through championship Saturday? 

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The College Football Playoff semifinals will be on Dec. 31 this season. Those semifinals will be played at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. The College Football Playoff championship game is on Jan. 9 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.

Here is a look at our final bowl projections for 2022-23. 

Final college football bowl projections

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Dec. 16 Bahamas Bowl UAB* (6-6) vs. Miami, Ohio* (7-5)
Dec. 16 Cure Bowl Southern Miss (6-6) vs. UConn (6-6
Dec. 17 Wasabi Fenway Bowl Cincinnati (9-3)* vs. Louisville* (7-5)
Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl BYU (7-5) vs. Air Force (9-3)
Dec. 17 Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl Fresno State (9-4) vs. Washington State (7-5)
Dec. 17 Lending Tree Bowl Buffalo (6-6) vs. Georgia Southern (6-6)
Dec. 17 Las Vegas Bowl Oregon State (9-3) vs. Missouri (6-6)
Dec. 17 Frisco Bowl Utah State (6-6) vs. East Carolina (7-5)
Dec. 19 Myrtle Beach Bowl Western Kentucky (8-5) vs. Appalachian State (6-6)
Dec. 20 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Bowling Green (6-6) vs. Wyoming (7-5)
Dec. 20 Boca Raton Bowl UCF (9-4) vs. North Texas (7-6)
Dec. 21 New Orleans Bowl UTSA (11-2) vs. Troy (11-2)
Dec. 22 Armed Forces Bowl Kansas (6-6) vs. South Alabama (10-2)
Dec. 23 Independence Bowl Louisiana (6-6) vs. New Mexico State (6-6)
Dec. 23 Gasparilla Bowl Marshall (8-4) vs. San Jose State (7-4)
Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl MTSU* (7-5) vs. San Diego State* (7-5)
Dec. 26 Quick Lane Bowl Eastern Michigan (8-4) vs. Wisconsin (6-6)
Dec. 27 Camellia Bowl Toledo (8-5) vs. Coastal Carolina (9-3)
Dec. 27 First Responder Bowl Syracuse (7-5) vs. SMU (7-5)
Dec. 27 Birmingham Bowl Houston (7-5) vs. Liberty (8-4)
Dec. 27 Guaranteed Rate Bowl Oklahoma (6-6) vs. Kentucky (7-5)
Dec. 28 Military Bowl Wake Forest (7-5) vs. Memphis (6-6)
Dec. 28 Liberty Bowl Baylor (6-6) vs. Arkansas (6-6)
Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl  Oregon (9-3) vs. Pitt (8-4)
Dec. 28 Texas Bowl Texas Tech (7-5) vs. Florida (6-6)
Dec. 29 Pinstripe Bowl Iowa (7-5) vs. NC State (8-4)
Dec. 29 Cheez-It Bowl Oklahoma State (7-5) vs. North Carolina (9-4)
Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl Texas (8-4) vs. Washington (10-2)
Dec. 30 Duke's Mayo Bowl Maryland (7-5) vs. Florida State (9-3)
Dec. 30 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl UCLA (9-3) vs. Duke (8-4)
Dec. 30 Gator Bowl Notre Dame (8-4) vs Ole Miss (8-4)
Dec. 30 Arizona Bowl Ohio (9-4) vs. Boise State (9-4)
Dec. 31 Music City Bowl Minnesota (8-4) vs. Mississippi State (8-4)
Jan. 2 ReliaQuest Bowl Illinois (8-4) vs. South Carolina (8-4)
Jan. 2 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl Purdue (8-5) vs. LSU (9-4)

*Denotes accepted bowl bid

College football New Year's Day Six picks 

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Dec. 30 Capital One Orange Bowl Clemson (12-1) vs. Tennessee (10-2)
Dec. 31 Allstate Sugar Bowl Kansas State (10-3) vs. Alabama (10-2)
Jan. 2 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Tulane (11-2) vs. USC (11-2)
Jan. 2 Rose Bowl Game Penn State (10-2) vs. Utah (10-3)

College Football Playoff picks 

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Dec. 31 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl Georgia (13-0) vs. Ohio State (11-1)
Dec. 31 Vrbo Fiesta Bowl Michigan (13-0) vs. TCU (12-1)

College Football Playoff championship pick 

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Jan. 11 CFP championship game Michigan vs. Georgia

 

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.