Latest Alabama bowl projections include Clemson matchup
Alabama has again been left out of the College Football Playoff field in the latest bowl projections published after Week 3.
Alabama dropped out of the projected CFP field after a 34-24 Week 2 loss to Texas, and an ugly 17-3 win over South Florida hasn’t changed the prognosticators’ minds.
Here’s a roundup of the latest Alabama bowl projections:
247Sports’ Brad Crawford has Alabama going to the Citrus Bowl to play Maryland. The two teams last played each other in 1974, but there is plenty of familiarity between the two programs. Maryland is led by a former Alabama assistant (Mike Locksley) and Alabama quarterback (Taulia Tagovailoa) plus two other former Alabama assistants (Lance Thompson and Josh Gattis) on the Terrapins’ coaching staff.
CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm projects Alabama to still make a New Year’s Six bowl, setting up an Alabama-Penn State Peach Bowl.
ESPN’s FPI dropped Alabama from 26 percent to 15.5 percent to make the CFP after the win over USF. Alabama now has the 10th-best odds to make the playoffs, behind Georgia, Texas and Oklahoma, among others. ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura projects Alabama to play Memphis in the Peach Bowl while Mark Schlabach says the Crimson Tide will get North Carolina in the ReliaQuest Bowl.
The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy projects a familiar matchup for Alabama. McMurphy says Nick Saban will take on Dabo Swinney’s Clemson Tigers in the Gator Bowl. Those two teams last met in the 2019 national championship game which Clemson won 44-16.
College Football News projects Alabama against Iowa in the Citrus Bowl.
