Conference championship week is here, and with that Sporting News has its final bowl projections for the 2019 college football season.
We have intriguing matchups heading into the final week. Utah is our pick to take the final College Football Playoff spot, facing Ohio State in the Peach Bowl. LSU and Clemson are in the other semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl.
That said, Georgia, Oklahoma and even Baylor remain in the hunt heading into this final week, but for now we have those teams in the New Year’s Day 6.
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The 2019 college football postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the national title game on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. This year’s semifinal games will be on Dec. 28.
Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here. Our projections heading into conference championship weekend of the college football season:
2019 college football bowl projections
| Dec. 20 | Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl | Charlotte** vs. Buffalo** |
| Dec. 20 | DXL Frisco Bowl | Western Michigan vs. Tulane |
| Dec. 21 | New Mexico Bowl | Western Kentucky vs. Utah State |
| Dec. 21 | AutoNation Cure Bowl | Appalachian State vs. UCF |
| Dec. 21 | Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl | FAU vs. Cincinnati |
| Dec. 21 | Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | Toledo vs. Louisiana |
| Dec. 21 | Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl | Boise State vs. Washington State |
| Dec. 21 | R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl | Louisiana Tech vs. Georgia State |
| Dec. 23 | Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | Southern Miss vs. SMU |
| Dec. 24 | SoFi Hawai’i Bowl | BYU vs. Hawaii |
| Dec. 26 | Walk-On’s Independence Bowl | Texas A&M vs. Miami |
| Dec. 26 | Quick Lane Bowl | Michigan State vs. North Carolina |
| Dec. 27 | Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman | Pitt* vs. Temple |
| Dec. 27 | New Era Pinstripe Bowl | Illinois vs. Florida State |
| Dec. 27 | Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Boston College* |
| Dec. 27 | SDCU Holiday Bowl | USC vs. Michigan |
| Dec. 27 | Cheez-It Bowl | Nevada* vs. FIU* |
| Dec. 28 | Camping World Bowl | Kansas State vs. Notre Dame |
| Dec. 30 | SERVPRO First Responders Bowl | Central Michigan* vs. Wyoming* |
| Dec. 30 | Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | UAB* vs. Louisville |
| Dec. 30 | Redbox Bowl | Washington vs. Indiana |
| Dec. 31 | Belk Bowl | Kentucky vs. Virginia Tech |
| Dec. 31 | Hyundai Sun Bowl | Arizona State vs. Wake Forest |
| Dec. 31 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Iowa State vs. Mississippi State |
| Dec. 31 | Valero Alamo Bowl | Cal vs. Texas |
| Dec. 31 | NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl | Arkansas State vs. Air Force |
| Jan. 1 | Outback Bowl | Auburn vs. Minnesota |
| Jan. 1 | Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl | Florida vs. Penn State |
| Jan. 2 | Birmingham Bowl | Marshall* vs. Liberty* |
| Jan. 2 | TaxSlayer Bowl | Tennessee vs. Iowa |
| Jan. 3 | Famous Idaho Potato Bowl | Kent State vs. San Diego State |
| Jan. 4 | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | Miami, Ohio* vs. Navy |
| Jan. 6 | Mobile Alabama Bowl | Ohio vs. Georgia Southern |
*No conference tie-in to bowl
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College Football Playoff/New Year’s Day 6 projections
| Dec. 28 | Goodyear Cotton Bowl | Baylor vs. Memphis |
| Dec. 30 | Capital One Orange Bowl | Virginia vs. Alabama |
| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl | Wisconsin vs. Oregon |
| Jan. 1 | Allstate Sugar Bowl | Georgia vs. Oklahoma |
| Dec. 28 | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | Clemson vs. LSU |
| Dec. 28 | Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl | Ohio State vs. Utah |
| Jan. 13 | College Football Playoff Championship | LSU vs. Ohio State |