ATLANTA --- The Southeastern Conference’s ‘Group of Six’ bowl picture has all but crystallized, as have projected participants for both the Florida-based Citrus and Outback bowls, per bowl and league sources who spoke to 247Sports.

Auburn is in line for the New Orleans-based Sugar Bowl.

With kickoff just underway here inside the Georgia Dome, Southeastern Conference Eastern Division Champion Florida --- a more than three-touchdown underdog against top-ranked Alabama in the title bout --- will go to the Tampa-based Outback Bowl with a loss. Though Alabama fell behind early, the Crimson Tide nonetheless is projected as a lock for the four-team College Football Playoffs.

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LSU, meanwhile, is headed to the Orlando-based Citrus Bowl after it finished the season 7-4 under now-permanent head coach Ed Orgeron.

The SEC’s projected lineup elsewhere looks to have surprising Kentucky, which closed the regular season 7-5 for its best year under Mark Stoops, in the TaxSlayer Bowl against the ACC’s Georgia Tech.

In Nashville, home-state Tennessee under fourth-year coach Butch Jones is a “99.97-percent certainty” to make its second-ever appearance in that bowl and first since 2010 --- Derek Dooley’s first year at the helm of the Vols’ program. Tennessee (8-4), which lost to Vanderbilt and blew its chances for the program’s first Sugar Bowl-berth since the end of the 1990 season, will not face Indiana, as has been projected, but is most likely to oppose Nebraska. Iowa and Wisconsin are outside possibilities to gain berths for the Dec. 30 bowl inside the Tennessee Titans’ Nissan Stadium.

Elsewhere, barring upsets in the ACC and Big Ten championships, Arkansas appears bound for the Charlotte-based Belk Bowl opposite presumed ACC runner-up Virginia Tech. Georgia, per officials, is likely headed for the Memphis-based Liberty Bowl.

South Carolina is bound for the Birmingham Bowl while Vanderbilt is headed for the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.

Bowl bids formally will be extended on Sunday afternoon, after the release of the final College Football Playoff rankings.

In the Music City Bowl, Tennessee would be housed that week at the world-renowned Opryland Hotel. Events that week also will include a “Hot Chicken Eating Contest” and other Nashville-renowned events. Since the Commodores are bowl eligible, it is unclear where Tennessee is going to practice that week.