College football bowl projections: CBS Sports expert predicts 11 SEC teams go bowling
Bowl Season is months away, but the experts update their projections after every week of results throughout the regular season.
CBS Sports expert Jerry Palm has updated his bowl projections after Week 3 of the 2022 season. Palm has 11 SEC teams going bowling in his latest predictions. Right now, Auburn, Mizzou and Vanderbilt are on the outside looking in.
Palm has 2 SEC teams making the College Football Playoff field of 4. The Sugar Bowl is not a CFP semifinal this year. With the game’s SEC tie-in, a third conference squad will make a New Year’s Six bowl if 2 teams are in the CFP.
Here are Palm’s SEC bowl projections:
Alabama
Fiesta Bowl (CFP semifinal) vs. Ohio State
Arkansas
Music City Bowl vs. Minnesota
Florida
Gator Bowl vs. Notre Dame
Georgia
Peach Bowl (CFP semifinal) vs. Oklahoma
Kentucky
ReliaQuest Bowl vs. Michigan State
LSU
Las Vegas Bowl vs. Oregon State
Mississippi State
Texas Bowl vs. Iowa State
Ole Miss
Liberty Bowl vs. Kansas
South Carolina
Birmingham Bowl vs. Tulane
Tennessee
Sugar Bowl (NY6) vs. Baylor
Texas A&M
Citrus Bowl vs. Wisconsin
Palm’s projections for all bowl games can be viewed here.