Bowl projections - Oct 18

Rose Bowl - Stanford vs Iowa
I have Oregon losing to USC in a week and then again in the Civil War game to end the season. I do think Stanford could lose again and if so then this is Oregon's spot, but I like Luck and the Cardinal to end up here. Iowa is clearly the strongest Big 10 team to me and has the best schedule by far. Easy choice.

Sugar Bowl - Auburn vs Utah
I like Auburn to win the game against LSU this weekend and head into the last weekend of the season 11-0 before losing to Alabama. Good enough to get them a surefire BCS berth though. I have them in the Sugar Bowl meeting the winner of Utah-TCU, and I give the edge right now to Utah not necessarily the better team but the home team in that game.

Fiesta Bowl - West Virginia vs Oklahoma
West Va clearly looks like the class of the Big East and I have nothing more to say about them. I tried to talk myself into someone other than Oklahoma here but I don't see them losing more than once (at either Missouri or Ok State hopefully), then beating Nebraska in the Big 12 title game finale. Tried to talk myself into Nebraska, Texas, or OK State here. Couldn't do it.

Orange Bowl - Virginia Tech vs Texas
I think the Hokies end up winning the ACC, the strongest team and on a pretty impressive win streak by then, still a definite marquee win for Boise State. And the other spot was a total question mark for me. I don't see any other one-loss teams (other than TCU) so it was choosing between two-loss teams like Texas, Ohio St, Mich St, and Oregon. Texas's losses were first so.. there ya go.

National Championship - Boise St vs Alabama
I like Boise State and Utah to finish the year undefeated but I just don't see any way they play each other for a national title. Not happening. I see people putting one-loss Alabama in the national title game after winning the SEC including a victory over top 5 undefeated Auburn to end the season, plus an SEC title as well. Boise State wins and wins the national title.... but only in theory because Utah also wins and remains undefeated, and we never actually know who the real champion was this year because Boise and Utah never got to play. :-(

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