College football Week 2 bowl projections: LSU, Washington trending up

Bill Bender

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Week 2 bowl projections are here, and LSU and Washington are among the teams trending upward after one week. 

The 2019 college postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. This year’s semifinal games will be on Dec. 28 at the Peach Bowl and Fiesta Bowl.  

The big question remains whether anybody other than Clemson or Alabama make their way to the Big Easy for the championship game. Sporting News still has Ohio State and Texas as its other playoff teams, and the Longhorns can solidify that position with a victory against LSU this week. 

The Tigers moved into our New Year's Day Six along with Washington. Florida and Oregon dropped out. 

Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here, and they will be updated each week during the college football season. 

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Week 2 college football bowl projections

DATEBOWLTEAMS
Dec. 20Makers Wanted Bahamas BowlNorthern Illinois vs. North Texas
Dec. 20DXL Frisco BowlToledo vs. Temple
Dec. 21Gildan New Mexico BowlFIU vs. Fresno State
Dec. 21AutoNation Cure BowlArkansas State vs. South Florida
Dec. 21Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton BowlOld Dominion vs. Houston
Dec. 21Raycom Media Camellia BowlWestern Michigan vs. Troy
Dec. 21Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas BowlBoise State vs. USC
Dec. 21R&L Carriers New Orleans BowlMarshall vs. Appalachian State
Dec. 23Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla BowlUAB vs. Memphis
Dec. 24SoFi Hawa'ii BowlBYU vs. Hawaii
Dec. 26Walk-On's Independence BowlArkansas vs. Wake Forest
Dec. 26Quick Lane BowlMaryland vs. Duke
Dec. 27Military Bowl Presented by Northrup GrummanArmy* vs. Wyoming*
Dec. 27New Era Pinstripe BowlNebraska vs. Florida State
Dec. 27Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas BowlTCU vs Mississippi State
Dec. 27SDCU Holiday BowlOregon vs. Iowa
Dec. 27Cheez-It BowlArizona State vs. Kansas State
Dec. 28Camping World BowlOklahoma State vs. Pittsburgh
Dec. 30SERVPRO First Responders BowlBaylor vs. Minnesota
Dec. 30Franklin American Mortgage Music City BowlVanderbilt vs. Virginia
Dec. 30Redbox BowlStanford vs. Northwestern
Dec. 31Belk BowlTennessee vs. North Carolina
Dec. 31Hyundai Sun BowlWashington State vs. Miami
Dec. 31AutoZone Liberty BowlIowa State vs. Kentucky
Dec. 31Valero Alamo BowlUtah vs. West Virginia
Dec. 31NOVA Home Loans Arizona BowlLouisiana vs. Nevada
Jan. 1Outback BowlAuburn vs. Penn State
Jan. 1Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus BowlFlorida vs. Wisconsin
Jan. 2Jared Birmingham BowlCincinnati vs. N.C. State*
Jan. 2TaxSlayer BowlTexas A&M vs. Michigan State
Jan. 3Famous Idaho Potato BowlEastern Michigan vs. Utah State
Jan. 4Lockheed Martin Armed Forces BowlCal* vs. Boston College*
Jan. 6Mobile Alabama BowlOhio vs. Georgia State

*No conference tie-in to bowl

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College Football Playoff/New Year’s Day Six projections

Dec. 28Goodyear Cotton BowlNotre Dame vs. UCF
Dec. 28Capital One Orange BowlSyracuse vs. LSU
Jan. 1Rose BowlMichigan vs. Washington
Jan. 1Allstate Sugar BowlGeorgia vs. Oklahoma
Dec. 28PlayStation Fiesta Bowl (semifinal)Clemson vs. Texas
Dec. 28Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (semifinal)Alabama vs. Ohio State

College Football Playoff championship projection

Jan. 13College Football Playoff championshipClemson vs. Alabama

Bill Bender

Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series for SN. Bender enjoys story-telling, awesomely-bad 80s movies and coaching youth sports.