The first two weeks of the college football season have netted some massive College Football Playoff-altering results, but the ripple effect has not totally taken a toll on Penn State’s bowl outlook just yet. You will have a difficult time finding any bowl projections putting Penn State in the four-team playoff right now, so the Nittany Lions will have to play their way into the conversation just a bit more for that to change. But there is no question the Nittany Lions have the look of a New Years Six-caliber bowl option.
But with the Rose Bowl hosting a semifinal game in the College Football Playoff, a return trip to Pasadena appears to be out of the mix for Penn State at this point in time. But there are some good options in play for a postseason bowl trip as Penn Stae gets set to open its Big Ten schedule on the road at Illinois in Week 3.
The bowl projections largely appear to be split on one of two possible bowl games; the Orange Bowl and the Peach Bowl. And there is even more of a wide-range of options for who Penn State will face in their bowl game.
Here is a look at some of the more popular bowl projections that have been updated heading into Week 3 of the regular season.