College football Week 6 bowl projections: Georgia, Ohio State meet in Fiesta Bowl

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The College Football Playoff chase is sure to heat up in October. 

Heading into Week 6, our College Football Playoff picks have not changed, but we switched the matchups. 

We have No. 1 Alabama meeting No. 5 Clemson in the CFP semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, and that means No. 2 Georgia and No. 3 Ohio State would be in the other semifinal in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Why is this significant? If the SEC gets two teams, then the conference champion is going to want that semifinal in Atlanta. Granted, Clemson would not be affected that much, but it is something to watch as long as the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs stay unbeaten.

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No. 4 Michigan and No. 6 USC are the next two teams, and we have them in the Rose Bowl. No. 7 Oklahoma State jumps into our New Year’s Day projections after beating Baylor 36-25 in Week 5. 

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.

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Week 6 College Football Bowl Projections

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Dec. 16 Bahamas Bowl Rice vs. Miami, Ohio
Dec. 16 Cure Bowl Marshall vs. Kent State
Dec. 17 Wasabi Fenway Bowl Houston vs. South Carolina*
Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl BYU vs. Air Force
Dec. 17 Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl UNLV vs. Arizona
Dec. 17 Lending Tree Bowl Toledo vs. Georgia Southern
Dec. 17 Las Vegas Bowl Washington vs. Mississippi State
Dec. 17 Frisco Bowl MTSU vs. East Carolina
Dec. 19 Myrtle Beach Bowl UTEP vs. Old Dominion
Dec. 20 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Buffalo vs. Boise State
Dec. 20 Boca Raton Bowl Tulane vs. UTSA
Dec. 21 New Orleans Bowl North Texas vs. South Alabama
Dec. 22 Armed Forces Bowl Texas Tech vs. Liberty
Dec. 23 Independence Bowl Army vs. UCF
Dec. 23 Gasparilla Bowl SMU vs. Wyoming 
Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Western Kentucky vs. San Jose State
Dec. 26 Quick Lane Bowl Central Michigan vs. Michigan State
Dec. 27 Camellia Bowl Western Michigan vs. Appalachian State
Dec. 27 First Responder Bowl Kansas State vs. Washington State
Dec. 27 Birmingham Bowl Cincinnati vs. Duke
Dec. 27 Guaranteed Rate Bowl Texas vs. Wisconsin
Dec. 28 Military Bowl Miami, Fla. vs. Memphis
Dec. 28 Liberty Bowl Kansas vs. Texas A&M 
Dec. 28 Holiday Bowl  UCLA vs. Syracuse
Dec. 28 Texas Bowl Oklahoma vs. Florida 
Dec. 29 Pinstripe Bowl Minnesota vs. Pitt
Dec. 29 Cheez-It Bowl Baylor vs. North Carolina
Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl TCU vs. Oregon 
Dec. 30 Duke's Mayo Bowl Iowa vs. Notre Dame
Dec. 30 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl Oregon State vs. Florida State 
Dec. 30 Gator Bowl Wake Forest vs. Arkansas
Dec. 30 Arizona Bowl Ball State vs. San Diego State
Dec. 31 Music City Bowl Purdue vs. LSU
Jan. 2 Tampa Bay Bowl Maryland vs. Kentucky
Jan. 2 Citrus Bowl Illinois vs. Ole Miss

College football New Year's Day Six picks 

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Dec. 30 Capital One Orange Bowl NC State vs. Penn State
Dec. 31 Allstate Sugar Bowl Oklahoma State vs. Tennessee
Jan. 2 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Coastal Carolina vs. Utah
Jan. 2 Rose Bowl Game Michigan vs. USC
Dec. 31 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl (semifinal) Alabama vs. Clemson 
Dec. 31 Fiesta Bowl (semifinal) Ohio State vs. Georgia

College Football Playoff championship pick 

DATE BOWL MATCHUP
Jan. 11 CFP championship game Alabama vs. Ohio State

 

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.