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Preseason football bowl predictions for all 41 games, from the Bahamas to the playoffs

Preseason football bowl predictions for all 41 games, from the Bahamas to the playoffs

Welcome to the final year of the college football season as you know it!

By 2024, there will be no such thing as the New Year’s Six Bowls, only quarterfinals and semifinals, and longtime Pac-12 partners like the Las Vegas and Holiday Bowls are supposed to match up with other conferences. It would be really weird when Oregon faced off against Arizona in the Big Ten-Big 12 Alamo Bowl.

As for 2023, here are a few things you need to know:

• The Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl are this year’s semi-final sites. If not in the playoffs, the ACC champion (ours is Florida State) goes to the Orange Bowl and the Big 12 champion (Kansas State) goes to Fiesta, Cotton, or Peach. The top five group champion will go to Atlanta or Arizona. Our district is Boise State – so, Fiesta Bowl.

• If, as in our scenario, a Big Ten team (Penn State) makes the Orange Bowl, the conference hands over its berth in the ReliaQuest (formerly Outback) Bowl to the ACC, which will then almost certainly go to 9-3 Notre Dame.

• Let this be your yearly reminder that players don’t have to pick teams by conference standings. “Big Ten No. 5” means “fifth pick,” not “fifth place.”

• ESPN Events has 16 lower-tier bowls and has wide flexibility in moving teams between them. The army, if qualified, is part of this assembly this year. The fellow UConn Independent is a free agent.

• Finally, the Independence Bowl was originally supposed to host BYU this year, before it joined the Big 12. Shreveport Stadium now gets the second-to-last pick in the league. The Big 12 team behind it will go to either Fort Worth or Dallas.

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An * indicates a generic alternative for a conference that does not have a sufficient number of qualified teams.

New Year’s Six

Dish date a team a team location time (Eastern time)

cotton

December 29th

Washington (in general)

Kansas State (Big 12)

Arlington, Texas

8 p.m

peach

December 30th

Tennessee (overall)

Ohio (overall)

Atlanta

the noon

orange

December 30th

Florida State (ACC)

Pennsylvania (SEC/B1G/ND)

Miami

4 p.m

Eid

January 1st

Oregon (overall)

Boise State (Group of Five)

Glendale, Ariz.

1 p.m

rose

January 1st

No. 2 Michigan

No. 3 LSU

Pasadena, California.

5 p.m

sugar

January 1st

No. 1 Georgia

No. 4 USC

New Orleans

8:45 p.m

remaining dishes

Dish date a team a team location time (Eastern time)

Bahamas

December 16th

Eastern Michigan (MAC)

New Mexico (C-USA)

Nassau, Bahamas

11 am

New Orleans

December 16th

Troy (sun belt)

Liberty (C-USA)

New Orleans

2:15 p.m

medicine

December 16th

Appalachian State (ESPN)

Buffalo (ESPN)

Orlando, Florida.

3:30 p.m

New Mexico

December 16th

UNLV (MWC)

Marshall (ESPN)

Albuquerque, New Mexico

5:45 p.m

Los Angeles Powell

December 16th

University of California (Pac-12 6)

Air Force (MWC 1)

Englewood, California.

7:30 p.m

independence

December 16th

Kansas (Big 12 No. 7)

Yukon (PAC-12*)

Shreveport, no.

9:15 p.m

Myrtle Beach

December 18th

Southern Miss (Sunbelt)

Western Kentucky (C-USA)

Myrtle Beach, SC

2:30 p.m

fresco

December 19th

Wyoming (ESPN)

Louisiana (ESPN)

Frisco, Texas

21:00

Boca Raton

December 21st

FAW (ESPN)

Georgia Southern (ESPN)

Boca Raton, Florida

8 p.m

Gasparilla

December 22nd

North Carolina State (ESPN)

UCF (ESPN)

Tampa, Florida.

6:30 p.m

Camellia

Dec 23rd

Coastal Carolina (ESPN)

Ohio

Montgomery, Ala.

the noon

Birmingham

Dec 23rd

SMU (AAAC)

Army (SEC 9*)

Birmingham, Ala.

the noon

Armed forces

Dec 23rd

North Texas (ESPN)

Utah State (ESPN)

Fort Worth, Texas

3:30 p.m

Idaho potatoes

Dec 23rd

San Diego State (MWC)

Miami, Ohio (MAC)

Boise, Idaho

3:30 p.m

68 projects

Dec 23rd

South Alabama (Sunbelt)

Middle Tennessee (C-USA)

Mobile, Ala.

7 p.m

Vegas

Dec 23rd

Oregon (Pac-12 3)

Maryland (Big Ten 3)

Las vigas

7:30 p.m

Hawaii

Dec 23rd

San Jose State (MWC)

Memphis

Honolulu

10:30 pm

quick lane

December 26th

Minnesota (Big Ten 7)

neo (mac)

Detroit

2 p.m

first responder

December 26th

Baylor (Big 12 8)

Utah

University Park, Texas

5:30 p.m

Guaranteed price

December 26th

Michigan State (Big Ten 6)

Texas Tech (Big 12 6)

Phoenix, Ariz.

21:00

army

December 27th

Tulane (AAC)

Wake Forest (ACC 9)

Annapolis, Maryland

2 p.m

Duke mayonnaise

December 27th

Ole Miss (SEC 3-8)

Duke (ACC 4-6)

Charlotte, NC

5:30 p.m

vacation

December 27th

Pittsburgh (AK 4-6)

Washington State (Pac-12 4)

San Diego

8 p.m

Texas

December 27th

TCU (Big 12 4)

Auburn (SEC 3-8)

Houston

21:00

Fenway

December 28th

Boston College (ACC 10)

East Carolina (AAC)

Boston

11 am

Pencil case

December 28th

Illinois (Big Ten 5)

Louisville (ACC 7)

Bronx, New York

2:15 p.m

Pop pies

December 28th

Texas (Big 12 3)

Clemson (ACC 3)

Orlando, Florida.

5:45 p.m

Alamo

December 28th

Oklahoma (Big 12 2)

Utah (Pac-12 2)

San Antonio

9:15 p.m

crocodile

December 29th

North Carolina State (ACC 4-6)

Missouri (SEC 3-8)

Jacksonville, Florida

the noon

sun

December 29th

Miami (ACC 8)

Arizona (Pac-12 5)

El Paso, Texas

2 p.m

freedom

December 29th

Oklahoma State (Big 12 5)

Kentucky (SEC 3-8)

Memphis, Tenn.

3:30 p.m

Music City

December 30th

Wisconsin (Big Ten 4)

South Carolina (SEC 3-8)

Nashville, Tenn.

2 p.m

Arizona

December 30th

Fresno State (MWC)

Toledo (mac)

Tucson, Arizona.

4:30 p.m

ReliaQuest

January 1st

Notre Dame (ACC No. 2)

Texas A&M (SEC 3-8)

Tampa, Florida.

the noon

citrus fruits

January 1st

Iowa (Big Ten No. 2)

Alabama (SEC No. 2)

Orlando, Florida.

1 p.m

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