There are four weeks left until the College Football Playoff and New Year’s Day Six pairings are revealed.
A total of 10 teams appear to be in contention for those CFP spots ahead of the second set of rankings on Tuesday. How do those teams fit in our latest bowl projections?
Right now we still have Georgia beating Alabama in the SEC championship game. Ohio State will hold off one-loss teams Michigan State and Michigan. Oklahoma will knock off Oklahoma State.
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So Georgia, Ohio State and Oklahoma are in the CFP. That leaves Oregon, Cincinnati and Notre Dame fighting for the last spot. We’re still thinking the Ducks takes a second loss and the Bearcats slip in with the help of that victory against the Irish.
This year’s bowl season includes 42 games between FBS teams. The College Football Playoff championship game is Jan. 10 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The semifinals are Dec. 31 at the Capital One Orange Bowl and Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
Our bowl projection is for how we believe the rest of the season will play out.
Here are our Week 11 bowl projections:
SN has projections for all 42 bowl games here, and they will be updated throughout the season:
College football bowl projections for Week 11
| DATE | BOWL | MATCHUP |
| Dec. 17 | Bahamas Bowl | Miami, Ohio vs. FAU |
| Dec. 17 | Cure Bowl | Coastal Carolina vs. East Carolina |
| Dec. 18 | RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl | Nevada vs. Liberty* |
| Dec. 18 | New Mexico Bowl | San Diego State vs. UTEP |
| Dec. 18 | Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl | BYU vs. UTSA |
| Dec. 18 | Lendingtree Bowl | Northern Illinois vs. Troy |
| Dec. 18 | Los Angeles Bowl | Utah State vs. USC |
| Dec. 18 | R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl | South Alabama vs. UAB |
| Dec. 20 | Myrtle Beach Bowl | Appalachian State vs. Western Michigan |
| Dec. 21 | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | Eastern Michigan vs. Boise State |
| Dec. 21 | Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl | Ball State vs. Fresno State |
| Dec. 22 | Armed Forces Bowl | Army* vs. Western Kentucky |
| Dec. 23 | Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl | Washington State vs. Marshall |
| Dec. 24 | Hawai'i Bowl | Air Force vs. UCF |
| Dec. 25 | Camellia Bowl | Kent State vs. Louisiana |
| Dec. 27 | Quick Lane Bowl | Memphis vs. Rutgers |
| Dec. 27 | Military Bowl | Wyoming* vs. Washington* |
| Dec. 28 | TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl | Houston vs. Mississippi State |
| Dec. 28 | First Responder Bowl | West Virginia vs. Syracuse |
| Dec. 28 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Texas vs. Florida |
| Dec. 28 | Holiday Bowl | Arizona State vs. Miami |
| Dec. 28 | Guaranteed Rate Bowl | Virginia vs. Kansas State |
| Dec. 29 | Fenway Bowl | SMU vs. Boston College |
| Dec. 29 | Pinstripe Bowl | Maryland vs. N.C. State |
| Dec. 29 | Cheez-It Bowl | Texas Tech vs. Louisville |
| Dec. 29 | Valero Alamo Bowl | Utah vs. Baylor |
| Dec. 30 | Duke's Mayo Bowl | Minesota vs. Clemson |
| Dec. 30 | Transperfect Music City Bowl | Iowa vs. Kentucky |
| Dec. 30 | SRS Las Vegas Bowl | Oregon State vs. Purdue |
| Dec. 31 | TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | Tennessee vs. Wake Forest |
| Dec. 31 | Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl | UCLA vs. North Carolina |
| Dec. 31 | Arizona Bowl | Central Michigan vs. San Jose State |
| Jan. 1 | Outback Bowl | Wisconsin vs. Auburn |
| Jan. 1 | Vrbo Citrus Bowl | Penn State vs. Ole Miss |
| Jan. 4 | Texas Bowl | Iowa State vs. Arkansas |
*Denotes not tied to bowl game
College Football New Year's Six projections
| DATE | BOWL | MATCHUP |
| Dec. 30 | Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl | Notre Dame vs. Pitt |
| Jan. 1 | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | Texas A&M vs. Michigan |
| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl Game | Oregon vs. Michigan State |
| Jan. 1 | Allstate Sugar Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Alabama |
| Dec. 31 | Capital One Orange Bowl (semifinal) | Cincinnati vs. Georgia |
| Dec. 31 | Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (semifinal) | Oklahoma vs. Ohio State |
College Football Playoff championship projection
| DATE | BOWL | MATCHUP |
| Jan. 10 | College Football Playoff championship | Georgia vs. Ohio State |