Oregon's in line to get another shot at a team from the state of Alabama in a BCS National Championship, with the Ducks and the Tide still looking like the country's best two national title candidates.

This week's complete bowl projections (asterisks for teams filling the spots of conferences that couldn't fill all of their own), with my explanation below:

Bowl Date Matchup Team Team BCS National Championship 1/7/2013 BCS 1 vs. BCS 2 Alabama Oregon Fiesta 1/3/2013 Big 12 1 vs. At-large 1 Oklahoma Notre Dame Sugar 1/2/2013 SEC 1 vs. At-large 2 Florida West Virginia Orange 1/1/2013 ACC 1 vs. At-large 3 Florida State Louisville Rose 1/1/2013 Pac-12 1 vs. Big Ten 1 USC Michigan GoDaddy 1/6/2013 MAC vs. Sun Belt 2 Ohio ULL BBVA Compass 1/5/2013 SEC 8/9 vs. Big East 5/C-USA MTSU* Vanderbilt Cotton 1/4/2013 Big 12 2 vs. SEC Kansas State South Carolina Heart of Dallas 1/1/2013 Big Ten 7 vs. C-USA Purdue ECU Outback 1/1/2013 Big Ten 3 vs. SEC Nebraska Georgia Gator 1/1/2013 Big Ten 4/5 vs. SEC 6 Northwestern Mississippi State Capital One 1/1/2013 Big Ten 2 vs. SEC 2 Wisconsin LSU Sun 12/31/2012 ACC 4 vs. Pac-12 4 Washington Miami Music City 12/31/2012 ACC 6 vs. SEC 7 Tennessee Maryland Liberty 12/31/2012 C-USA 1 vs. Big East/SEC 8/9 Tulsa Ole Miss Chick-fil-A 12/31/2012 ACC 2 vs. SEC 5 Virginia Tech Texas A&M Pinstripe 12/29/2012 Big 12 7 vs. Big East 4 Arizona* Iowa State Kraft Fight Hunger 12/29/2012 Pac-12 6 vs. Navy Arizona State Navy Buffalo Wild Wings 12/29/2012 Big 12 4 vs. Big Ten 4/5 Texas Tech Michigan State Armed Forces 12/29/2012 MWC vs. C-USA Fresno State Troy* Alamo 12/29/2012 Big 12 3 vs. Pac-12 2 Stanford Texas Russell Athletic 12/28/2012 Big East 2 vs. ACC 3 Cincinnati Clemson Meineke Car Care 12/28/2012 Big 12 6 vs. Big Ten 6 Oklahoma State Iowa Independence 12/28/2012 SEC 10 vs. ACC 7 Duke Bowling Green* Military 12/27/2012 ACC 8 vs. Army Wake Forest Ball State* Holiday 12/27/2012 Pac-12 3 vs. Big 12 5 Oregon State TCU Belk 12/27/2012 Big East 3 vs. ACC 5 Rutgers N.C. State Little Caesars 12/26/2012 MAC vs. Big Ten 8 NIU Minnesota Hawaii 12/24/2012 MWC/WAC vs. C-USA San Diego State Houston New Orleans 12/22/2012 Sun Belt 1 vs. C-USA Western Kentucky ULM* Las Vegas 12/22/2012 MWC 1 vs. Pac-12 5 Boise State Utah Beef O'Brady's 12/21/2012 Big East 6 vs. C-USA Kent State* San Jose State* Poinsettia 12/20/2012 MWC 2 vs. BYU Nevada BYU New Mexico 12/15/2012 MWC 4/5 vs. Pac-12 7/WAC Air Force New Mexico* Famous Idaho Potato 12/15/2012 MAC 3 vs. WAC Toledo LA Tech

Conference tie-ins via Jerry Palm.

BCS conference champs

I have Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, Louisville, Michigan and Oklahoma. Feeling pretty good about all but those last two, obviously. I have Oklahoma topping Kansas State for the Big 12 even though K-State's beaten the Sooners, as I think OU is the conference's most complete team moving forward. As for the Big Ten ... the other options are Nebraska, Northwestern and Wisconsin. Help me out here.

At-large bids

Despite a blowout loss to Texas Tech, I still have West Virginia making a BCS bowl as an at-large pick. Of the remaining BIg 12 contenders, WVU has the most manageable schedule (their three toughest opponents all visit distant Morgantown), and one must be careful not to overreact to a road loss to a squirrelly coach with a knack for upsets out of nowhere. But with K-State up next, we'll soon find out for sure how WVU handles squirrelly coaches with a knack for upsets out of nowhere.

Notre Dame gets what would be a rematch with Oklahoma, as the Fiesta gets first at-large pick this year. If Notre Dame's available and has a convincing record, you take Notre Dame, whether you're setting up a rematch (of what could be a great regular season game) or not.

For the final at-large spot, the Orange continues its ACC-Big East thing one more time, picking Louisville and making for a good, if lightly watched, game.

Etc.

The New Orleans and New Mexico end up with rematches here as well, but each has the chance to pick a nearby team, and for bowls on the edge of the postseason, that's about the best those games can hope for.

Boise State and Utah, despite upgrading their conference standing, find themselves pretty much right where they always were for one more year.

Speaking of Utah, I have a really optimistic number of Pac-12 teams making bowls. Seeing some late-season surges there!

The Big East can't come close to filling all its slots (look at the Big East standings and marvel), so the mighty Sun Belt and MAC gorge themselves on postseason exposure.

Check out the Hokies and Aggies getting a matchup, finally pairing two similar school cultures and also setting up the sheer wonder of Bud Foster trying to contain Johnny Manziel. Wisconsin and LSU make for this year's best battle of the bands and this year's rowdiest tailgating, while Arizona State vs. Navy makes for the season's most fascinating cross-cultural exchange. Tulsa-Ole Miss might be one of my favorite undercard games here.

And, shame of all shames, a LA Tech team that came within a returned extra point of having as many BCS conference wins right now as Oregon does still ends up in a lowly bowl that few will watch. Well, besides you and me.

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