Author: Erick Smith, USA TODAY

As the college football season kicks off with Week 1, it’s time to make bowl projections for the College Football Playoff and the entire postseason.

It’s the final year for Oklahoma and Texas in the Big 12 and four new schools are entering the league. A preview of all the teams chasing a title.

Oklahoma and Texas will join the SEC in 2024, and the league has released its football schedule that includes major showdowns for the season.

Bowls begin with new blood in the final four and some familiar faces. The same is true in the other major bowls and throughout the rest of the lineup.

The College Football Playoff committee has chosen this year’s four semifinalists. Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State were selected.

The college football regular season is complete. Who is going to the playoff and which teams are headed to major bowls? Our final bowl projections.

Two losses among the top five from last week’s College Football Playoff rankings have set a clear top four and defined one team the waiting in wings.

A wild penultimate weekend of the college football season saw major changes to this week’s bowl projections, including two new teams joining playoff.

A loss by Tennessee allowed LSU to take over the No. 5 spot in the College Football Playoff rankings. Georgia and Ohio State hold the top spots.