Stewart Mandel's final bowl projections for 2018 - The Athletic

It’s the final Bowl Projections.

As I wrote late Saturday, I believe Oklahoma will get the fourth Playoff spot, despite a vocal 11th-hour push for Georgia. At which point the committee will have to decide whether to place the Alabama-Oklahoma semifinal in the Cotton or Orange bowls. The Tide would normally prefer Dallas, but probably not against the Sooners.

The rest of the New Year’s Six should play out as you see below. The Rose Bowl will get its traditional matchup of Big Ten and Pac-12 champs (Ohio State-Washington), Georgia (SEC) and Texas (Big 12) automatically replace their leagues’ champs in the Sugar Bowl, and UCF is likely Fiesta Bowl-bound.

As for the rest of the lineup:

I’m most confident in my Big Ten and Pac-12 lineups. Big Ten runner-up Northwestern is now expected to land in the Holiday Bowl against Oregon. The Alamo Bowl is eyeing a Washington State-West Virginia matchup. Stanford’s win against Cal cements a Redbox Bowl...

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