I’m thrilled to share with you my preseason projections for all 39 bowls. But I’m not sure you’re going like them.



My very unoriginal Playoff field includes — you guessed it — two SEC teams. It involves a rematch of a potential Dec. 7 Georgia-Alabama conference championship three weeks later in Glendale, Ariz. I could manipulate the seedings to avoid it, but you’d just wind up with another rematch of recent Playoff games — either a Clemson-Alabama, Georgia-Oklahoma or Alabama-Oklahoma semifinal.



Speaking of rematches: I have Week 2 opponents Texas and LSU meeting again in the Sugar Bowl. Not ideal, but the rules clearly say if the SEC’s champ is in the Playoff, the next-highest ranked team goes to New Orleans, as does the Big 12’s conference championship game loser. And I’m predicting LSU to be that next-highest ranked team and Texas the Big 12 title game loser.



All of these projections are based on...