#Mark Schlabach

Penn State finished the 2022 season at No. 7 in the final Associated Press top 25. It is poised to start the 2023 slate inside the top 10, as well. Early rankings and oddsmakers' opinions in the future market have head coach James Franklin's team anywhere from a top-five team to No. 9 nationally. Sporting News places the Lions in the latter spot in…

The bowl picture amongst middling SEC teams is far from clear entering the final week of the regular season, Kentucky included. Sitting at 6-5, the Wildcats will welcome the Louisville Cardinals to Kroger Field for the Governor's Cup this Saturday, a game that will likely have major implications on where UK lands for its postseason matchup in late…

And as an independent team, UConn easiest path into a bowl game is with one offers at-large bids, since the majority of the 82 slots in the 41 bowl games have contracts with conferences. Will UConn be selected? That remains to be seen.This week players went home for Thanksgiving, likely with the bowl question looming over their heads. It will…

To say Texas A&M threw a wrench into LSU's postseason plans with Saturday's 38-23 victory over the Tigers would be a gross understatement. Throwing a whole tool set into the Tigers' plans is more like it. The loss sent LSU tumbling out of College Football Playoff contention, from No. 5 in last week's rankings to No. 14 Tuesday. That also reduced…

Entering this weekend, the Michigan Wolverines were ticketed for the Rose Bowl, a nice consolation prize for a good season, but it would mean yet another loss to Ohio State. Now, they have vaulted squarely into the College Football Playoff picture as 10.5-point favorites over Iowa in the Big Ten Championship. With all that in consideration, let's…

There's a lot at stake when the Utah Utes - ranked No. 23 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings - host the No. 3 Oregon Ducks at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday. It's arguably the second-most important game of the weekend, in terms of postseason implications, behind only No. 4 Ohio State hosting No. 7 Michigan State. Saturday's result…

The Florida Gators (6-6, 3-5 SEC) earned bowl eligibility in Week 11 following their victory over the South Carolina Gamecocks, ensuring postseason practices and an additional game for Billy Napier's first season in charge. Bowl game selections will be made following conference championships this weekend. All Gators has gathered nine bowl…

Penn State is now less than a week away from learning where it will go in the postseason. The Lions finished the regular season at 10-2, cashing their season long win total number for bettors who backed their over of 8.5 while also seemingly securing a spot in a New Year's Six bowl matchup. "I'm really proud," James Franklin said last Saturday…

FAYETTEVILLE - Arkansas football had a chance to better its bowl standing last week with a win over Missouri. Instead, the Razorbacks lost, giving the Tigers their sixth win and bowl eligibility while remaining at six wins themselves. Arkansas (6-6) will play in a bowl for a second straight year. Arkansas won the Outback Bowl - now called the…

BYU is on a three-game losing streak heading into its Friday night home matchup against East Carolina. That slide has people questioning whether the Cougars, who at one point were ranked in the top 15, will even make a bowl this season. While Deseret News writers Jay Drew and Dick Harmon believe BYU will lose a fourth straight game this week to…

247Sports - Armed Forces Bowl (Fort Worth, TX) vs. SMU ESPN (Kyle Bonagura) - Duke's Mayo Bowl (Charlotte, NC) vs. Pittsburgh ESPN (Mark Schlabach) - Quick Lane Bowl (Detroit, MI) vs. Ohio CBS Sports - Quck Lane Bowl vs. Eastern Michigan USA Today - Pinstripe Bowl (New York, NY) vs. Syracuse College Football News - Duke's Mayo Bowl vs. NC…

The final week of the regular season is here. Before we know it, bowl season will be upon us. For the first time since 2019 and just the second time in the last five seasons, the Florida State football team will be playing in a bowl. And there's a chance that it could be an even more prestigious bowl than many of us thought. The chaos that was Week…

The Music City Bowl? The Gator Bowl? Those were just a couple of the bowl games being thrown around in predictions surrounding Kentucky football. The Wildcats have two more games slated this season - Saturday vs. Georgia and Nov. 26 at their foes in Louisville, the Louisville Cardinals - before bowl games come around in December. Bowl games will be…

Over the next two weeks, a complicated web of scenarios to fill the two spots in the Pac-12 championship game will be sorted out. For now, though, five league teams - Utah, Oregon, USC, UCLA and Washington - all have one or two conference losses and could play in the game on Dec. 2. Not only is it difficult to determine the game's participants…

When the College Football Playoff Committee released its firsts rankings last week with Michigan ranked No. 5 behind Clemson, it looked it was 13-0 or no playoff berth. While that could still certainly be the case, the Michigan Wolverines got some help this week that could lead to two Big Ten teams getting in. Clemson and Alabama both lost, likely…

Liberty's three-point loss at UConn didn't hurt the Flames' odds of going to a bowl game for the fourth straight season. It did significantly hamper potentially being in a marquee post-Christmas bowl. All 15 national outlets that project the bowl games have the Flames in a bowl game, with 10 of those projecting Liberty to play in a pre-Christmas…

First, Tennessee got thumped by Georgia, with the Vols suffering their first defeat of the season. Then Clemson also fell from the ranks of the unbeaten, losing at Notre Dame, and Alabama was knocked off by LSU. Just like that, three of the top six teams in the initial College Football Playoff rankings had lost, turning the playoff hunt upside…

It's been a while since Kentucky Wildcats fans woke up after watching their football team win a game. In fact, it's now been 16 days since Kentucky's last victory. The Wildcats began their season 4-0 with wins over Miami (OH), No. 12 Florida, Youngstown State and Northern Illinois. However, they've suffered back to back losses at No. 14 Ole…

247Sports - Citrus Bowl (Orlando, FL) vs. Texas A&M ESPN (Kyle Bonagura) - Orange Bowl (Miami Gardens, FL) vs. Florida State ESPN (Mark Schlabach) - Citrus Bowl vs. Kentucky CBS Sports - Music City Bowl (Nashville, TN) vs. Arkansas USA Today - Citrus Bowl vs. Tennessee College Football News - Citrus Bowl vs. Tennessee Action Network - Citrus Bowl…

We're only 10 days from the kickoff of Purdue football in 2022, and expectations are the highest they have been in quite some time. After a 9-4 year last year it is not so much "if" Purdue will make a bowl game, but "which bowl". There are so many bowls these days that just making it to six wins in a major conference pretty much guarantees…

The No. 24 ranked Oregon Ducks go into a showdown of Top 25 programs this weekend in Autzen when they play host to visiting No. 12 BYU. The game will have the nation's eyes on it as the Ducks will get a second-chance at a Top 25 opponent and hope to prove they are one of the nation's top teams, while the Cougars, they'll be looking for another Top…

College football hears your "no games with playoff implications in Week 2" proclamation and laughs. Top-ranked Alabama Texas but only managed 20 total points -- the last three in the final 10 seconds -- for a one-point victory over the Longhorns. It was only the second time Alabama won a game by a single point under coach Nick Saban. The other…

What can one week of college football tell us? In the scope of a full season, probably not a lot more than how a team starts off. Still, that doesn't stop college football experts from evaluating each week in its own prism, and that includes weekly updates on bowl projections. Here's the latest bowl projections for Utah's three FBS programs…

Another college football season is upon us, and expectations are high for the Gophers. Could this be the season Minnesota finally returns to the Rose Bowl? Let's take a look at what the experts are saying. 247Sports - Citrus Bowl (Orlando, FL) vs. Arkansas ESPN (Kyle Bonagura) - Pinstripe Bowl (New York, NY) vs. Syracuse ESPN (Mark Schlabach) -…