College football bowl projections: CBS Sports predicts 11 SEC teams reach postseason

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 8 of the 2022 season. Palm currently has 11 SEC teams going bowling in his updated predictions. Palm has Auburn, Mizzou and Vanderbilt on the outside looking in heading into Week 9.

Palm has 2 SEC teams making the College Football Playoff field of 4 and facing off in the Peach Bowl. 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

Sugar Bowl (NY6) vs. Oklahoma State

Arkansas

Gator Bowl vs. Notre Dame

Florida

Las Vegas Bowl vs. Washington

Georgia

Peach Bowl (CFP) vs. Tennessee

Kentucky

Music City Bowl vs. Illinois

LSU

ReliaQuest Bowl vs. North Carolina

Mississippi State

Texas Bowl vs. Kansas State

Ole Miss

Citrus Bowl vs. Purdue

South Carolina

Liberty Bowl vs. Baylor

Tennessee

Peach Bowl (CFP) vs. Georgia

Texas A&M

Birmingham Bowl vs. Georgia Southern

Andrew Olson

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