We all know the only thing more important than preseason bowl projections are bowl projections after one week of football. The fog lifts and we can pretty much start writing in ink from here on out. Consult your travel agent ASAP.

It was not a great opening weekend for the conference, which went 7-5 (including California's win over Hawaii in Week 0) and 0-2 against the SEC (one loss in dramatic overtime fashion, the other in horrific-claw-your-eyes-out-please-oh-please-make-it-stop fashion).

We're projecting nine teams right now, but given the parity of the league, it's very possible we could see 10 teams again the way we did last season. When you have a conference that is expected to beat itself up ... like say, the Pac-12 ... you're going to probably see some 6-6 and 7-5 teams with only one or two teams reaching double-digit wins when all is said and done.

Remember, only one team had 10 wins during the regular season last year -- and that was Stanford. (Utah got its 10th win in the bowl game).

Keep in mind also that the league has seven contracted bowls. But we're anticipating a second team going to an NY6 Bowl Game because the Pac-12 blog is optimistic like that. The Orange Bowl seems logical since the Fiesta (and Chick-fil-A Peach) are national semifinals this year.

So we'll start with this for now and see where things go:

Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual: Stanford

Capital One Orange Bowl: Washington

Valero Alamo Bowl: UCLA

Holiday Bowl: Oregon

Foster Farms Bowl: USC

Hyundai Sun Bowl: Utah

Las Vegas: California

Cactus: Arizona

At-large: Washington State