College Football Bowl Projections: Brett McMurphy’s Updated College Football Playoff Picks & Bowl Predictions

With the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings released tonight, here are my latest updated bowl projections. Yes, updated from the projections from Monday.

Why new projections only 24 hours since the last ones? Why not? Selection Sunday is a mere five days away.

Like Monday’s projections, these updated College Football Playoff and bowl projections are based on these teams winning their respective conference championships: Oregon (Big Ten), Texas (SEC), SMU (ACC), Arizona State (Big 12) and UNLV (Mountain West).

If those teams all win, then 11 of the 12 teams should be locked in: Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State and Penn State (Big Ten); Texas, Georgia and Tennessee (SEC); SMU (ACC); Arizona State (Big 12); UNLV (highest rated Group of Five champion) and independent Notre Dame.

I’m projecting Alabama gets the final spot over Miami and South Carolina. Don’t agree? Well, after Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings, I’ll have even more updated projections, based on those rankings.

Here are my latest Week 15 bowl projections, including the projected point spread of each matchup from Action Network senior writer Collin Wilson’s betting power ratings.