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Week 15 College Football Bowl Projections: McMurphy’s CFP Predictions & Bowl Picks for Championship Week

We all have choices. The choice to go elsewhere for your College Football Playoff and bowl projections. But, seriously, why would you?

In the past 24 hours, I reported the exact order of the 12 teams in Tuesday night’s CFP rankings and earlier broke the first two official bowl matchups (Hawaii and Salute to Veterans). To quote Larry David: pretty, pretty good.

Yeah, yeah, so what? That’s old news, I know. What do I have for today? Well, here are my very, very latest updated projections based on my latest information following Tuesday’s CFP rankings.

Again, these are based on the following conference champions: Oregon (Big Ten), Texas (SEC), SMU (ACC), Arizona State (Big 12) and UNLV (Mountain West). If any of those five teams don’t win their conference championships, then these projections might as well have been drawn in sand on the beach at high tide.

My very, very latest Week 15 bowl projections include 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

1
[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=”SMU Mustangs” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/smu.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

SMU*

ACC
4
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Arizona State” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaab/100/asu.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Arizona State*

Big 12
5
[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
6
[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
7
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”Georgia Bulldogs” logo=”https://static.sprtactn.co/teamlogos/ncaaf/100/uga.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Georgia

SEC
8
[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
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=”Alabama Crimson Tide” logo=”https://images.actionnetwork.com/blog/2021/12/Alabama-alternate-logo-100-100.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

Alabama

SEC
12
[teamlogo linktoteampage=”false” fullname=”UNLV Rebels” logo=”https://images.actionnetwork.com/blog/2021/11/2021-UNLV-Rebels-Logo-100.png” width=”36″ height=”36″][/teamlogo]

UNLV*

MWC

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[subheader sizedown=”false” text=”College Football Playoff Semifinals” center=”true”][/subheader]

[subheader sizedown=”false” text=”CFP National Championship Prediction” center=”true”][/subheader]

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[subheader sizedown=”false” text=”Projections for All Other Bowl Games” center=”true”][/subheader]

Note: Teams with an asterisk are confirmed to be playing in their respective bowl games, according to Action Network’s Brett McMurphy.


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