We're now nine weeks through the 2018 college football schedule, 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 10, and we are just one day away from the unveiling of the first College Football Playoff rankings. Michigan is the best one-loss team on the board, and the Wolverines are penciled in to face Alabama in the Cotton Bowl Classic — for now.
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Notre Dame and Clemson are slated to face off in the Capital One Orange Bowl. The winners will play in the College Football Playoff championship game in Santa Clara, Calif., on Jan. 7. The New Year's Day Six saw a few shakeups this week, with West Virginia and Penn State moving in.
Here are our projections for every bowl game:
Week 10 College football bowl projections
| Date | Bowl | Projected teams |
| Dec. 15 | Gildan New Mexico Bowl | Nevada vs. BYU* |
| Dec. 15 | AutoNation Cure Bowl | Louisiana-Monroe vs. Cincinnati |
| Dec. 15 | Las Vegas Bowl | Fresno State vs. USC |
| Dec. 15 | Raycom Media Camellia Bowl | Troy vs. Utah State* |
| Dec. 15 | New Orleans Bowl | Coastal Carolina vs. Louisiana Tech |
| Dec. 18 | Cheribundi Tart Boca Raton Bowl | Ohio vs. FIU |
| Dec. 19 | Frisco Bowl | Eastern Michigan vs. USF |
| Dec. 20 | Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl | UAB vs. Houston |
| Dec. 21 | Bahamas Bowl | Marshall vs. Western Michigan |
| Dec. 21 | Potato Bowl | Northern Illinois vs. Boise State |
| Dec. 22 | Birmingham Bowl | Memphis vs. Oregon* |
| Dec. 22 | Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl | Pitt vs. Temple |
| Dec. 22 | Dollar General Bowl | Georgia Southern vs. Buffalo |
| Dec. 22 | Hawai'i Bowl | Hawaii vs. Middle Tennessee State |
| Dec. 26 | First Responder Bowl | North Texas vs. Minnesota |
| Dec. 26 | Quick Lane Bowl | Virginia Tech vs. Toledo* |
| Dec. 26 | Cheez-It Bowl | Baylor vs. Cal |
| Dec. 27 | Walk-On's Independence Bowl | Duke vs. Vanderbilt |
| Dec. 27 | New Era Pinstripe Bowl | Miami (Fla.) vs. Maryland |
| Dec. 27 | Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl | Texas Tech vs. Auburn |
| Dec. 28 | Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl | Georgia Tech vs. Missouri |
| Dec. 28 | Camping World Bowl | Iowa State vs. Boston College |
| Dec. 28 | Arizona Bowl | Appalachian State vs. San Diego State |
| Dec. 28 | Valero Alamo Bowl | Oklahoma State vs. Utah |
| Dec. 29 | Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl | Georgia vs. UCF |
| Dec. 29 | Belk Bowl | Virginia vs. South Carolina |
| Dec. 31 | Military Bowl | Army vs. N.C. State |
| Dec. 31 | Hyundai Sun Bowl | Syracuse vs. Arizona |
| Dec. 31 | San Francisco Bowl | Wisconsin vs. Washington |
| Dec. 31 | AutoZone Liberty Bowl | Texas vs. Texas A&M |
| Dec. 31 | Holiday Bowl | Purdue vs. Stanford |
| Dec. 31 | TaxSlayer Gator Bowl | Northwestern vs. Florida |
| Jan. 1 | Outback Bowl | Iowa vs. Mississippi State |
| Jan. 1 | Citrus Bowl | Michigan State vs. Kentucky |
| Jan. 1 | PlayStation Fiesta Bowl | Penn State vs. West Virginia |
| Jan. 1 | Rose Bowl Game | Ohio State vs. Washington State |
| Jan. 1 | AllState Sugar Bowl | Oklahoma vs. LSU |
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College Football Playoff predictions
| Dec. 29 | Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic | Michigan vs. Alabama |
| Dec. 29 | Capital One Orange Bowl | Clemson vs. Notre Dame |
| Jan. 7 | College Football Playoff championship | Alabama vs. Clemson |