Sporting News' Week 12 bowl projections are here in time for the second set of College Football Playoff rankings, which will be unveiled on Tuesday.
There are several big changes after LSU's 46-41 victory against Alabama on Saturday. For the first time all season, the Crimson Tide are not projected to make the College Football Playoff. Sporting News moved into Oregon into the final Playoff spot for now, and the Ducks would face LSU in the Peach Bowl semifinal. We slid Ohio State and Clemson into a Fiesta Bowl rematch.
What does that mean for Alabama? For now, an Orange Bowl matchup with Virginia. That's not where we pictured the Crimson Tide finishing this season, but that's the play for now.
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The 2019 college football postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the national title game on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. This year's semifinal games will be on Dec. 28.
Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here, and they will be updated each week during the college football season. Our projections heading into Week 12 of the college football season:
Week 12 college football bowl projections
| Date | Bowl | Teams |
| Dec. 20 | Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl | Western Michigan vs. Louisiana Tech |
| Dec. 20 | DXL Frisco Bowl | Central Michigan vs. Temple |
| Dec. 21 | New Mexico Bowl | Western Kentucky vs. Utah State |
| Dec. 21 | AutoNation Cure Bowl | Appalachian State vs. Cincinnati |
| Dec. 21 | Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl | FAU vs. Tulane |
| Dec. 21 | Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | Toledo vs. Georgia State |
| Dec. 21 | Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl | Boise State vs. Oregon State |
| Dec. 21 | R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl | UAB vs. Louisiana |
| Dec. 23 | Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | Southern Miss vs. SMU |
| Dec. 24 | SoFi Hawai'i Bowl | BYU vs. Hawaii |
| Dec. 26 | Walk-On's Independence Bowl | Kentucky vs. North Carolina |
| Dec. 26 | Quick Lane Bowl | Michigan State vs. Louisville |
| Dec. 27 | Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman | Marshall* vs. UCF |
| Dec. 27 | New Era Pinstripe Bowl | Illinois vs. Virginia Tech |
| Dec. 27 | Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl | TCU vs. N.C. State* |
| Dec. 27 | SDCU Holiday Bowl | UCLA vs. Iowa |
| Dec. 27 | Cheez-It Bowl | Arizona State vs. Iowa State |
| Dec. 28 | Camping World Bowl | Kansas State vs. Miami |
| Dec. 30 | SERVPRO First Responders Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Wyoming* |
| Dec. 30 | Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | Washington State vs. Pitt |
| Dec. 30 | Redbox Bowl | Washington vs. Indiana |
| Dec. 31 | Belk Bowl | Mississippi State vs. Florida State |
| Dec. 31 | Hyundai Sun Bowl | Cal vs. Wake Forest |
| Dec. 31 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Texas vs. Tennessee |
| Dec. 31 | Valero Alamo Bowl | USC vs. Baylor |
| Dec. 31 | NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl | Arkansas State vs. Air Force |
| Jan. 1 | Outback Bowl | Auburn vs. Michigan |
| Jan. 1 | Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl | Florida vs. Wisconsin |
| Jan. 2 | Birmingham Bowl | Boston College* vs. Liberty* |
| Jan. 2 | TaxSlayer Bowl | Texas A&M vs. Penn State |
| Jan. 3 | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | Miami (Ohio) vs. San Diego State |
| Jan. 4 | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | Nevada* vs. Navy |
| Jan. 6 | Mobile Alabama Bowl | Ohio vs. Georgia Southern |
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| Dec. 28 | Goodyear Cotton Bowl | Notre Dame vs. Memphis |
| Dec. 30 | Capital One Orange Bowl | Virginia vs. Alabama |
| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl | Minnesota vs. Utah |
| Jan. 1 | Allstate Sugar Bowl | Georgia vs. Oklahoma |
| Dec. 28 | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | Clemson vs. Ohio State |
| Dec. 28 | Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl | LSU vs. Oregon |
College Football Playoff championship projection
| Jan. 13 | College Football Playoff championship | LSU vs. Ohio State |