As Week 3 of the SEC season came to a close, and the BIG 10 is one week closer to their start date, ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach offer their 2020 college football bowl game predictions.
Their predictions range all the way from the New Mexico Bowl, which they predict will feature Nevada and UTSA, to the College Football Playoff, and eventually, the National Championship.
Bonagura and Schlabach offer their top four that will make the College Football Playoff. Those teams are Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia.
The one-seed Clemson Tigers will face off against the four-seed Georgia Bulldogs in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Playoff Semifinal in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California will feature two-seeded Alabama and three-seed Ohio State in a rematch of the 2015 College Football Playoff semifinal Sugar Bowl where the Buckeyes got the best of the Crimson Tide.
The prediciton is finalized with an infamous National Championship matchup that fans have seen time and time again. Held in Miami, Florida, Nick Saban will try to earn National Championship ring No. 7 against Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers, according Bonagura and Schlabach.
What lacks from the projection is a winner. However, when it comes to the history behind the Alabama-Clemson matchup, it’s safer to flip a coin than to try to predict the outcome of that game.