Week 9 College Football Bowl Projections
As we pass the halfway point of the season, it's time for my bowl projections to – you know – really start projecting. Get serious. No more guesswork. I've put away my Magic 8 Ball.
Sure, when a team starts 2-0 it's easy for me to project them in a New Year's Six bowl. However, when that team loses four of its next five games, I wonder if it will even become bowl eligible. But enough about Miami.
With only four or five games remaining in the regular season, 27 teams already have reached the magical six-win bowl-eligibility mark. Only two teams – Akron and Charlotte – are mathematically eliminated from winning six games (and Charlotte's Will Healy was fired Sunday after the 49ers' seventh bowl-eliminating loss).
Based on Action Network senior writer Collin Wilson's current college football betting power ratings, I can (hopefully) make a more educated projection on which teams reach six wins. Obviously, this is based on the favored team winning every game – which, of course, never happens. But enough about Texas.