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College Football Bowl Projections: Brett McMurphy’s Week 12 Predictions, College Football Playoff Picks

With three weeks remaining, we’re up to 53 bowl-eligible teams to fill the 82 available spots. There are still 43 teams within two wins of reaching the magic six-win mark: 27 five-win teams and 16 four-win teams.

The biggest challenge isn’t necessarily figuring out what teams in which bowls; it’s projecting the College Football Playoff field.

This week, I’m projecting Oregon (Big Ten), Texas (SEC), Miami (ACC), Colorado (Big 12) and Boise State (Mountain West/Group of Five) as the conference champions receiving the automatic bids.

Good luck to the committee determining which at-large teams make the cut. I’m sure their selections won’t be controversial. They never are.

Included in my Week 12 bowl projections is the projected point spread of each matchup from Action Network senior writer Collin Wilson’s betting power ratings.

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*Conference champions projected to receive automatic bids

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[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Oregon Ducks” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/ore.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Oregon*

Big Ten
2
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Texas Longhorns” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/tex.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Texas*

SEC
3
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Miami Hurricanes” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/mfl.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Miami*

ACC
4
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Colorado Buffaloes” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/col.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Colorado*

Big 12
5
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Ohio State Buckeyes” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/osu.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Ohio State

Big Ten
6
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Ole Miss Rebela” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/mis.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Ole Miss

SEC
7
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Notre Dame Fighting Irish” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/nd.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Notre Dame

Independent
8
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Penn State Nittany Lions” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/psu.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Penn State

Big Ten
9
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Tennessee Volunteers” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/ten.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Tennessee

SEC
10
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Indiana Hoosiers” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/iu.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Indiana

Big Ten
11
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Georgia Bulldogs” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/uga.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Georgia

SEC
12
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Boise State Broncos” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/boise.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Boise State*

MWC

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