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College Football News sends Oklahoma to the Alamo Bowl in their post-spring projections

In College Football News post-spring Bowl Projections, the Oklahoma Sooners are headed back to the Alamo Bowl to face the Utah Utes.

While the Oklahoma Sooners might be considered the favorites to win the Big 12 by many publications, there are still those who are uncertain about what will come from Oklahoma after all of the turnover in the coaching staff and on the roster. Turnover happens across the country, but it’s understandable why some may have doubts about Oklahoma’s ability to rebound after a disappointing 2021 season.

They lost 11 players to the NFL and a host of others to the transfer portal. They worked diligently to mitigate the losses by attacking the transfer portal themselves. They filled needs and found several starters through the portal that will have them contending once again for the Big 12 title.

However, over at College Football News, they’re not believers quite yet in what Oklahoma is going to be able to do in Brent Venable’ first season as head coach. They’ve got the Sooners making a return trip to San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl in 2022. And they’ll face a team that many Sooners fans hope will be the thorn in Lincoln Riley’s side this season, the Utah Utes.

With the Sooners in the Alamo Bowl, that means they didn’t win the Big 12, and according to College Football News’ projections, it’s the Oklahoma State Cowboys who take the conference and end up in the All-State Sugar Bowl where they’ll take on the Georgia Bulldogs.

The four teams that make the College Football Playoff according to CFN are the Alabama Crimson Tide who would take on the USC Trojans (a familiar site for Lincoln Riley), and the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Clemson Tigers. And it’s Alabama and Ohio State, the two schools with the frontrunners for the Heisman meeting in the College Football Playoff National Championship.

Oklahoma may not end up in the College Football Playoff but it’s hard to imagine the Sooners missing a New Year’s Six bowl for a second-straight season.

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Oklahoma Sooners to the Sugar Bowl in 247Sports way-too-early 2022 bowl projections

In 247Sports way-too-early bowl predictions, the Oklahoma Sooners take on Texas A&M in the Sugar Bowl.

Heading into the 2021 season, the Oklahoma Sooners were expected to return to the College Football Playoff led by the arm of their Heisman contending quarterback. Very little went according to plan last year, and now, the Sooners find themselves facing transition on both sides of the ball.

But that hasn’t dampened any of the optimism from fans and analysts alike who have high expectations for the Sooners in 2022.

247Sports is expecting a bounce-back season for the Sooners. On Monday, they shared their predictions for the College Football Playoff and the New Year’s Six Games.

Let’s take a look!

There’s a lot to unpack here:

As the only Big 12 team on the list, it shows how 247Sports feels about the Venables hire. If OU doesn’t make the playoff, there’s a loss or two on their schedule, which puts them out of the top four.

Seeing Venables take OU to the playoff in his first year would be amazing, but even with a weaker schedule in the Big 12, I don’t think that’s a reasonable ask from OU fans.

A matchup with Texas A&M would provide a glimpse of a future SEC West that could include the two former Big 12 conference-mates.

USC in the Rose Bowl in [autotag]Lincoln Riley[/autotag]’s first year is undoubtedly a bold prediction. With no one else from the PAC 12 on this list, 247Sports is predicting USC to win the PAC 12. I think Utah is at least a step ahead of USC, but we’ll see what happens.

The big one that sticks out on the list is Notre Dame. We all know that the CFP committee loves Notre Dame, but their schedule is more challenging this year.

They open against Ohio State and play both Clemson and USC in November. USC is a road game and is their final game of the year, which will do big numbers in the ratings.

The top four are more or less what actually will be.

Alabama and Georgia are still Alabama and Georgia. They’re not going anywhere. C.J. Stroud will probably win the [autotag]Heisman[/autotag], and Ohio State is still the best program in the second-best conference in football. Barring injury, they’ll be back. Notre Dame is the only one I could see realistically missing out on the College Football Playoff.

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