Penn State is approaching the start of the new college football season, and it should be a good one for the Nittany Lions. Penn State is a consensus no. 7 preseason team in the polls to start the season and a number of analysts would agree that Penn State should be firmly in the College Football Playoff hunt deep into the season.
With those lofty expectations being placed on them for the 2023 season, it is no surprise that the bowl projections this far out seem to agree that Penn State will be playing in a New Years Six bowl game at the very least at the end of the season. And with a number of bowl projections forecasting both Ohio State and Michigan into the College Football Playoff for a second straight season, that would seem to help Penn State’s bowl outlook as well once again.
We’ll take a look at the bowl projections from various outlets each week this season to see how the bowl projections are impacted by each week’s results. But let’s see where Penn State is starting the year as we go into Week 1. Note that some of these bowl projections have already accounted for Week 0 results, as few as they may have been, and a few are simply the preseason projections without taking into account the Week 0 results.