Bowl Projections and College Football Playoff Predictions Week 10

CFN’s Week 10 bowl projections introduce a “funky twist” to the postseason picture. The core assumption is that the College Football Playoff committee will include at least one SEC team that finishes 9-3, using it as an at-large ranking call over a Power Four program that goes 10-2—an unprecedented move in the short CFP format. The projections also rely on a second assumption: the Group of Six champion receiving the CFP 12 seed would not be Boise State. The article spotlights Wake Forest at SMU on Nov. 14 as the key game: if SMU wins, CFN predicts SMU loses next at Notre Dame, narrowing the ACC to a single CFP bid and loading the bowls with ACC teams.