College football Week 6 bowl projections: Ohio State shakes up Playoff matchups

Bill Bender

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Sporting News' Week 6 bowl projections are here, and it features the usual combination of Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State in our projected College Football Playoff field.

That said, a shakeup has shifted in our projected end-of-year Playoff matchups. Sporting News now has Alabama vs. Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl, which would give the people what they want with quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts. We have Clemson and Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl in a rematch from the 2016 season. The rest of our New Year's Day Six projections remain the same.

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The 2019 college postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the national title game on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. This year's semifinal games will be on Dec. 28.

Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here, and they will be updated each week during the college football season. Our projections heading into Week 6 of the college football season:

Week 6 college football bowl projections

Dec. 20Makers Wanted Bahamas BowlWestern Michigan vs. Southern Miss
Dec. 20DXL Frisco BowlToledo vs. SMU
Dec. 21Gildan New Mexico BowlLouisiana Tech vs. Wyoming
Dec. 21AutoNation Cure BowlArkansas State vs. Cincinnati
Dec. 21Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton BowlMarshall vs. Temple
Dec. 21Raycom Media Camellia BowlEastern Michigan vs. Troy
Dec. 21Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas BowlFresno State vs. Cal
Dec. 21R&L Carriers New Orleans BowlWestern Kentucky vs. Appalachian State
Dec. 23Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla BowlUAB vs. Memphis
Dec. 24SoFi Hawaii BowlBYU vs. Hawaii
Dec. 26Walk-On's Independence BowlArizona* vs. Syracuse
Dec. 26Quick Lane BowlNorthwestern vs. Boston College
Dec. 27Military Bowl Presented by Northrop GrummanArmy* vs. Tulane
Dec. 27New Era Pinstripe BowlNebraska vs. Florida State
Dec. 27Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas BowlWest Virginia vs. Ole Miss
Dec. 27SDCU Holiday BowlUSC vs. Michigan State
Dec. 27Cheez-It BowlWashington State vs. Iowa State
Dec. 28Camping World BowlTCU vs. Pittsburgh
Dec. 30SERVPRO First Responders BowlKansas State vs. Indiana
Dec. 30Franklin American Mortgage Music City BowlVanderbilt vs. Miami
Dec. 30Redbox BowlArizona State vs. Minnesota
Dec. 31Belk BowlKentucky vs. North Carolina
Dec. 31Hyundai Sun BowlUtah vs. Wake Forest
Dec. 31AutoZone Liberty BowlBaylor vs. Mississippi State
Dec. 31Valero Alamo BowlWashington vs. Oklahoma State
Dec. 31NOVA Home Loans Arizona BowlLouisiana vs. Air Force
Jan. 1Outback BowlTexas A&M vs. Michigan
Jan. 1Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus BowlAuburn vs. Penn State
Jan. 2Birmingham BowlUCF vs. South Carolina
Jan. 2TaxSlayer BowlFlorida vs. Iowa
Jan. 3Famous Idaho Potato BowlMiami (Ohio) vs. Utah State
Jan. 4Lockheed Martin Armed Forces BowlTexas Tech vs. Navy
Jan. 6Mobile Alabama BowlOhio vs. UL-Monroe
*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. Boise State
Dec. 30Capital One Orange BowlVirginia vs. LSU
Jan. 1Rose BowlOregon vs. Wisconsin
Jan. 1Allstate Sugar BowlGeorgia vs. Texas
Dec. 28PlayStation Fiesta Bowl (semifinal)Clemson vs. Ohio State
Dec. 28Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (semifinal)Alabama vs. Oklahoma

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.