The 2018 college football schedule is halfway complete, meaning we're one week closer to the 40-game 2018 bowl season. Sporting News, of course, has projections for all of those bowls.
It's Week 8, and Notre Dame remains in our projected College Football Playoff. We have the Irish taking on Alabama in the Capital One Orange Bowl, while the matchup between Clemson and Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl stays the same. Michigan, Oregon and Oklahoma are part of the New Year's Day Six heading into the third week of October.
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Here are our projections for every bowl game, with a familiar national championship game.
Week 8 College football bowl projections
| Bowl | Projected teams |
| Gildan New Mexico Bowl | Boise State vs. Louisiana Tech |
| AutoNation Cure Bowl | Arkansas State vs. USF |
| Las Vegas Bowl | Utah State vs. Utah |
| Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | Georgia Southern vs. Colorado State* |
| New Orleans Bowl | Louisiana-Monroe vs. UAB |
| Cheribundi Tart Boca Raton Bowl | Ohio vs. FIU |
| Frisco Bowl | Western Michigan vs. Houston |
| Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | FAU vs. Cincinnati |
| Bahamas Bowl | Marshall vs. Toledo |
| Potato Bowl | Northern Illinois vs. San Diego State |
| Birmingham Bowl | Memphis vs. Arizona State* |
| Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | BYU* vs. Temple |
| Dollar General Bowl | Appalachian State vs. Buffalo |
| Hawai'i Bowl | Hawaii vs. North Texas |
| First Responder Bowl | Middle Tennessee St. vs. Purdue |
| Quick Lane Bowl | Wake Forest vs. Indiana |
| Cheez-It Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Stanford |
| Walk-On's Independence Bowl | Syracuse vs. Tennessee |
| New Era Pinstripe Bowl | Virginia vs. Maryland |
| Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl | Iowa State vs. Auburn |
| Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | Boston College vs. Vanderbilt |
| Camping World Bowl | TCU vs. Duke |
| Arizona Bowl | Troy vs. Fresno State |
| Valero Alamo Bowl | Texas Tech vs. Washington |
| Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl | Georgia vs. N.C. State |
| Belk Bowl | Miami (Fla.) vs. South Carolina |
| Military Bowl | Army vs. Pitt |
| Hyundai Sun Bowl | Virginia Tech vs. Colorado |
| San Francisco Bowl | Iowa vs. Washington State |
| AutoZone Liberty Bowl | West Virginia vs. Mississippi State |
| Holiday Bowl | Northwestern vs. USC |
| TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | Wisconsin vs. Texas A&M |
| Outback Bowl | Penn State vs. Kentucky |
| Citrus Bowl | Michigan State vs. Florida |
| PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | UCF vs. Oklahoma |
| Rose Bowl Game | Michigan vs. Oregon |
| AllState Sugar Bowl | Texas vs. LSU |
MORE: SN's Week 8 Playoff picture
College Football Playoff predictions
| Dec. 29 | Capital One Orange Bowl | Notre Dame vs. Alabama |
| Dec. 29 | Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic | Clemson vs. Ohio State |
| Jan. 7 | College Football Playoff championship | Alabama vs. Ohio State |