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

Wasabi Fenway Bowl

Louisville vs Cincinnati
Saturday, December 17, 2022
11:00 am, ESPN

No Research Instant Analysis: There’s no excuse. Louisville is better, Luke Fickell is off to Wisconsin, and the Power Five snob side has to kick in. This is a good Cincinnati team, but it’s not last year’s version. It’ll give it a good go, but a few Cardinal takeaways will be the difference. Let’s put it this way – it’ll be a grouchy offseason for Louisville if it loses this.

No Research Bowl Prediction: Louisville 27, Cincinnati 21
Early Bowl Line Guess: Louisville -3.5
Actual Line: Cincinnati -1.5

Cricket Celebration Bowl

North Carolina Central vs Jackson State
Saturday, December 17, 2022
12:00, ABC

No Research Instant Analysis: Coach Prime hasn’t left yet. The new Colorado head coach will stick around to try to finish his business and make up for last year’s embarrassing 31-10 loss in this to South Carolina State. The Eagles can put up points, but Jackson State should be on a mission.

No Research Bowl Prediction: Jackson State 38, NC Central 27
Early Bowl Line Guess: Jackson State -12
Actual Line: Jackson State -14.5

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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