Bowl projections: Florida, Missouri benefit from top 25 wins as College Football Playoff holds despite hiccups

In per week the place 18 of the groups ranked within the AP Top 25 have been both taking part in FCS warring parties or liked through a minimum of 3 touchdowns, it will have to no longer be sudden that there aren’t any adjustments to the New Year’s Six bowl projections. However, there have been some shut calls.

Most significantly, Alabama were given detached performances from quarterbacks Tyler Buchner and Ty Simpson in a 17-3 win at South Florida. The Crimson Tide have performed 3 video games and nonetheless should not have a quarterback who trainer Nick Saban totally trusts. They higher to find one quickly as a result of convention play begins on Saturday when Ole Miss visits. In the period in-between, the Tide are nonetheless projected to the Peach Bowl towards Penn State.

Texas performed with its meals for 3 quarters prior to a three-touchdown outburst within the fourth propelled the Longhorns to a 31-10 win over Wyoming. The Longhorns jumped into the College Football Playoff projections remaining week at the energy in their win at Bama. I assume each groups had hangovers from that recreation.

Things will for sure be extra fascinating subsequent week as we get again to having large video games at the agenda. Florida State travels to Clemson within the largest recreation at the ACC calendar. The Seminoles best face two different groups within the present scores the remainder of the way in which, getting Duke and Miami at house.

Ohio State additionally visits Notre Dame in an enormous recreation for every crew’s CFP probabilities as a result of they have got different difficult video games forward. The Fighting Irish will even host USC in 3 weeks. The Buckeyes’ different tricky video games are available convention play. They host Penn State and trip to Michigan on the finish of the common season. 

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The absolute best ranked crew to lose Saturday used to be then-No. 11 Tennessee, which fell at Florida, 29-16, for the Volunteers’ tenth consecutive loss in The Swamp. The best different ranked crew to fall this weekend used to be then-No. 15 Kansas State. The reigning Big 12 champions misplaced 30-27 at Missouri on a 61-yard box purpose as time expired.

As such, the Gators jumped into the bowl projections for the primary time this season with nabbing a place within the Gasparilla Bowl towards South Alabama, whilst the Tigers leveled as much as the Music City Bowl towards Minnesota.

Another notable exchange used to be Oklahoma changing Oklahoma State within the Alamo Bowl projection the place OU will now face Oregon. The Sooners routed Tulsa 66-17 on Saturday, whilst the Cowboys shockingly fell to USA 33-7 at house.

There are a whopping six groups projected to be 5-7 and nonetheless get right into a bowl recreation. Since the rule of thumb permitting 5-7 groups to be eligible got here to be in 2015, there were a complete of six 5-7 groups to obtain bowl bids. This excludes the pandemic yr and Rutgers’ 2021 look within the Gator Bowl as a final minute fill in for Texas A&M.

Don’t see your crew? Check out Jerry Palm’s bowl projections after Week 3.