College Football Bowl First Thought Predictions, Analysis For All 41 Games, National Championship

College Football Playoff, bowl game first quick predictions. early lines, analysis before starting the deep dive into all 41 matchups & the CFP National Championship

College Football New Year’s Six

Capital One Orange Bowl

Tennessee vs Clemson
Friday, December 30, 2022
8:00, ESPN

No Research Instant Analysis: Joe Milton vs Cade Klubnik? Okay. The quarterbacks will be the storyline, but it’ll be more about a Clemson team that should be a bit more intact overall than Tennessee. The lines will be a wee bit better, and the secondary that held up reasonably well in the ACC Championship win over North Carolina will be okay.

More than anything else, it’s Dabo Swinney in a bowl game. The Tennessee offense will have its moments, but the Tiger defense will get the win.

No Research Bowl Prediction: Clemson 34, Tennessee 30
Early Bowl Line Guess: Clemson -3
Actual Line: Clemson -4.5

Allstate Sugar Bowl

Alabama vs Kansas State
Saturday, December 31, 2022
12:00, ESPN

No Research Instant Analysis: Forget that Alabama thinks it was entitled to be in the College Football Playoff even with two losses. Prove to everyone that you were overlooked with a blowout win.

Kansas State just keeps on winning. It won last year’s Texas Bowl against an LSU team that lost a ton of talent. It rolled through the season and found a way to get to and win the Big 12 Championship. Alabama is almost certainly going to load a boatload of NFL guys, and …

The Alabama twos are pretty good, too.

Kansas State will have more of its normal players and style, but let me put it like this. Counting national title games, Nick Saban has won ten bowl games in the last seven years. His last three bowl losses were national championships.

No Research Bowl Prediction: Alabama 34, Kansas State 20
Early Bowl Line Guess: Alabama -8
Actual Line: Alabama -4.5

2022-2023 Bowl First Thought Analysis 
Bahamas: UAB-MU | Cure: UTSA-Troy
Fenway: UC-UofL | Celeb: JSU-NC Central
New Mexico: SMU-BYU | LA: Wazzu-Fresno
LendingTree: Rice-USM | Vegas: UF-Oregon St
Frisco: UNT-Boise | Myrtle: Marshall-UConn
Potato: EMU-SJSU | Boca: Libery-Toledo
NO: WKU-USA | Armed Forces: AF-Baylor
Ind: La-Houston | Gasparilla: WF-Missouri
Hawaii: SDSU-MT | Quick: NMSU-BGSU
Camellia: GaSo-UB | 1st Resp: Memphis-USU
Birm: Coastal-ECU | GuarRate: Wisc-Ok St
Military: UCF-Duke | Libery: KU-Arkansas
Holiday: Oregon-UNC | Texas: TTech-Ole Miss
Pinstripe: Minn-Syr | Cheez-It: FSU-OU
Alamo: Texas-UW | Mayo: MD-NC St
Sun: UCLA-Pitt |
Gator: ND-USC
Arizona: Ohio-Wyoming |
Music: Iowa-UK
ReliaQuest: Ill-Miss St | 
Citrus: LSU-Purdue
Orange: Tenn-Clemson |
Sugar: Bama-K-State
Cotton: USC-Tulane |
Rose: Penn St-Utah
CFP Fiesta: UM-TCU 
CFP Peach: UGA-OSU
CFP Nat’l Champ | 
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