Bowl Projections: Week 4

[00Dawg]

ESPN (David Hale): Music City Bowl vs Michigan State
ESPN (Kyle Bonagura): Outback Bowl vs Michigan
CBS: Gator Bowl vs FSU
SBNation: Gator Bowl vs Louisville
CollegeSportsMadness.com: Texas Bowl vs WVU
DieHards.com: Citrus Bowl vs Miami
247 Sports: Gator Bowl vs FSU
Saturday Down South: Citrus Bowl vs Miami
Sporting News: Outback Bowl vs Wisconsin
CollegeFootballNews.com: Outback Bowl vs Penn State
Sports Illustrated: Gator Bowl vs Iowa
Orlando Sentinel (Brant Parsons): Birmingham Bowl vs Memphis
Brett McMurphy: Gator Bowl vs Northwestern
USA Today: Outback Bowl vs Michigan

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Nashville is my prediction...

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Nashville is my prediction...

Would be fine with me. Just 15 mins down the road

 

[RingN2012]

I think Bama to Playoff, Georgia to NY6 game, Auburn to Citrus. That leaves us with Outback or Gator

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

We still have a lot of season left. I still think every game except for Bama is on the table. Auburn has not played well in back to back games yet, but even if we lose that one... we have time to regroup.

Thank God Kentucky is at home. That loss last night will crush them.

 

[bulldognation]

Just like our loss last night didn't crush us, eh?

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Just like our loss last night didn't crush us, eh?

We are a very young team. They tend to be able to shake off games like last night.

There is also a bit of difference between being manhandled and grasping defeat from the jaws of victory at the last minute.

 

[patdog]

This could be the year the SEC gets 2 in the playoff. It's way early, but both Bama & UGA are big favorites in every game remaining. If both go 12-0, the loser likely still gets in the playoff.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

This could be the year the SEC gets 2 in the playoff. It's way early, but both Bama & UGA are big favorites in every game remaining. If both go 12-0, the loser likely still gets in the playoff.

I dunno. Looks like big ten, acc, and big 12 will get a rep in there. PAC 12 might if USC or even Oregon doesn't lose.

 

[RocketDawg]

We are a very young team. They tend to be able to shake off games like last night.

There is also a bit of difference between being manhandled and grasping defeat from the jaws of victory at the last minute.

Yep, blowouts are easier to take than a loss like UK had. And the fact that it would have broken the 30 game win streak of Florida makes it even worse. That's the definition of a "crushing defeat".

 

[RocketDawg]

I dunno. Looks like big ten, acc, and big 12 will get a rep in there. PAC 12 might if USC or even Oregon doesn't lose.

Oregon? You meant the Beavs didn't you? Oregon's not currently ranked.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Oregon? You meant the Beavs didn't you? Oregon's not currently ranked.

Yup, my fault...didn't notice they lost last night. They were looking pretty good, like chip kellys oregon teams.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Oregon? You meant the Beavs didn't you? Oregon's not currently ranked.

Oregon State is really really bad

 

[DawgatAuburn]

This could be the year the SEC gets 2 in the playoff. It's way early, but both Bama & UGA are big favorites in every game remaining. If both go 12-0, the loser likely still gets in the playoff.

Likely gets in? Could get in, maybe. While it’s obviously way too early to be able to make any meaningful projections about who specifically gets on, UGA is only going to get in if several of the other potential playoff teams stumble in their conference championship games. No way would 12-1 UGA get in over an undefeated Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12 and ACC champs. And probably not over any of those with one loss if they all win their championship games while UGA loses to Bama.

 

[Drebin]

This could be the year the SEC gets 2 in the playoff. It's way early, but both Bama & UGA are big favorites in every game remaining. If both go 12-0, the loser likely still gets in the playoff.

Georgia will **** the bed somewhere. It's what they do, every year. I wish it would have been our game.

 

[johnson86-1]

Likely gets in? Could get in, maybe. While it’s obviously way too early to be able to make any meaningful projections about who specifically gets on, UGA is only going to get in if several of the other potential playoff teams stumble in their conference championship games. No way would 12-1 UGA get in over an undefeated Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12 and ACC champs. And probably not over any of those with one loss if they all win their championship games while UGA loses to Bama.

If UGA goes 12-1, they will have wins over Auburn, Notre Dame, MSU (hopefully that still looks like a good win at the end of the season), and then a bunch of mediocre to bad SECE teams. Not a weak schedule by any means but not the type of schedule that suggests that would support them getting in over one loss champions from other power conferences. I really don't think you'll see two teams from the same conference in the playoffs unless it's a situation like Bama and LSU had, where it looks freaking obvious that the second best team in the SEC is the second best team in the nation, and you have an obviously weak conference champion from two of the other power conferences. I don't think the SEC is good enough this year for Georgia to make that case, and I think the Big 12, and Big 10, and ACC are all too respectable for a non-conference champion to get in over them.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

What about OM where are they proje.......oh wait.