Making college football projections is a combination of doing a puzzle and playing dominos. You need to know where the pieces fit, but once they start getting filled, it knocks down many other tiles. This year there are 42 bowl games, not including the national title game, ranging from December 17 through January 4. Here are our best bets as to where teams will end up when the bowl schedules are finalized this Sunday.
12 p.m. ET
Pick: Middle Tennessee vs. Toledo
6 p.m.
Pick: UAB vs. Central Michigan
11 a.m.
Pick: Old Dominion vs. Wyoming
12 p.m.
Pick: Jackson State vs. South Carolina State
2:15 p.m.
Pick: Appalachian State vs. Tulsa
3:30 p.m.
Pick: BYU vs. Utah State
5:45 p.m.
Pick: Western Michigan vs. Western Kentucky
7:30 p.m.
Pick: Washington State vs. San Diego State
9:15 p.m.
Pick: Louisiana vs. UTSA
2:30 p.m.
Pick: Coastal Carolina vs. Miami (OH)
3:30 p.m.
Pick: Boise State vs. Eastern Michigan
7:30 p.m.
Pick: Fresno State vs. UTEP
8 p.m.
Pick: Marshall vs. Liberty
7 p.m.
Pick: Florida vs. Central Florida
8 p.m.
Pick: Nevada vs. Memphis
2:30 p.m.
Pick: Ball State vs. Georgia State
11 a.m.
Pick: Northern Illinois vs. Maryland
2:30 p.m.
Pick: East Carolina vs. Virginia Tech
12 p.m.
Pick: LSU vs. SMU
3:15 p.m.
Pick: Army vs. Louisville
6:45 p.m.
Pick: South Carolina vs. West Virginia
8 p.m.
Pick: Wake Forest Vs. Oregon State
10:15 p.m.
Pick: Minnesota vs. Texas Tech
11 a.m.
Pick: Boston College vs. Houston
2:15 p.m.
Pick: Virginia vs. Purdue
5:45 p.m.
Pick: Iowa State vs. N.C. State
9:15 p.m.
Pick: Oklahoma vs. Oregon
11:30 a.m.
Pick: North Carolina vs. Tennessee
3 p.m.
Pick: Auburn vs. Penn State
7 p.m.
Pick: Pittsburgh vs. Ole Miss
10:30 p.m.
Pick: UCLA vs. Missouri
Time TBD
Pick: Georgia vs. Cincinnati
Time TBD
Pick: Michigan vs. Oklahoma State
11 a.m.
Pick: Clemson vs. Texas A&M
12 p.m.
Pick: Miami vs. Arizona State
2 p.m.
Pick: Air Force vs. Kent State
12 p.m.
Pick: Wisconsin vs. Arkansas
1 p.m.
Pick: Kentucky vs. Iowa
1 p.m.
Pick: Notre Dame vs. Michigan State
5 p.m.
Pick: Ohio State vs. Utah
8:45 p.m.
Pick: Alabama vs. Baylor
9 p.m.
Pick: Kansas State vs. Mississippi State
8 p.m.
Pick: Georgia vs. Michigan
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