Tag: Bowl Projections

Jerry Palm discusses where Tennessee is most likely to go bowling

Tennessee will return to action in Week 13.

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KNOXVILLE – Tennessee (5-5, 3-3 SEC) will return to action in Week 13 following an open date.

The Vols will play at Missouri (5-5, 2-4 SEC) with kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m. ET.

A win would make Tennessee bowl eligible with a regular season finale home contest against Vanderbilt awaiting on Nov. 30.

Ahead of the Tennessee-Missouri game, Jerry Palm of CBS Sports provided his thoughts on where the Vols could go bowling in the postseason.

If UT finished the regular season with a 7-5 or 6-6 record, Palm views Tennessee’s bowl destination the same with six or seven wins.

“Their record does not really matter,” Palm told Vols Wire.

Palm mentioned Tennessee’s destination most likely “depends more on whether the Music City Bowl prefers Louisville (6-4, 4-3 ACC) or Kentucky (5-5, 3-5 SEC).”

“I think the Music City Bowl or Liberty Bowl are most likely,” Palm said of Tennessee. “The Texas Bowl and Belk Bowl are also in play with an outside chance at the Gator Bowl.”

Palm currently has Tennessee projected to play Louisville in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30.

AP Poll: Notre Dame Back in Top 15

What it all means is that if Notre Dame wins out they’ll have a realistic chance at finishing the regular season in the top-10

The latest AP Poll is out after Week 12 concluded and Notre Dame moved up in that one as well, just like the Amway Coaches Poll Powered by USA Today, earlier today.

The latest poll is as follows:

Here is the new top 25:

1) LSU

2) Ohio State

3) Clemson

4) Georgia

5) Alabama

6) Oregon

7) Utah

8) Oklahoma

9) Penn State

10) Florida

11) Minnesota

12) Michigan 

13) Baylor

14) Wisconsin

15) Notre Dame

16) Auburn

17) Cincinnati

18) Memphis

19) Iowa

20) Boise State

21) SMU

22) Oklahoma State

23) Appalachian State

24) Texas A&M

25) Virginia Tech

Others receiving votes:

Indiana 47, Iowa State 31, Virginia 23, Navy 13, Air Force 12, Pittsburgh 9, San Diego State 7, USC 6, Washington 6, Texas 4, Illinois 1

How high can Notre Dame get by the end of the year? It’ll need help to be in the top-10 but here are a few things to take note of:

Wisconsin and Minnesota still have to play in two weeks, while Baylor has a great chance of meeting Oklahoma in the Big XII Championship which would mean a pair of guaranteed loses ahead of Notre Dame.

It’s also worth noting Penn State and Michigan both have to play Ohio State where the Buckeyes will be favored against both, meaning two more very possible losses for teams Notre Dame is within shouting distance off.

Finally Oregon and Utah meeting in the PAC-12 Championship will mean one more guaranteed loss by one of them.

What it all means is that if Notre Dame wins out they’ll have a realistic chance at finishing the regular season in the top-10 and in turn, have an actual chance at a Cotton or Orange Bowl appearance.

Stay tuned as the Irish continue their quest for a ten-win regular season and possibly a NY-6 bowl as they welcome Boston College to South Bend on Saturday.

College Football Bowl Projections: New Years Six Still Possible for Notre Dame?

“So you’re saying there’s a chance?” as Jim Carey once said in Dumb and Dumber. It might not be a great one, but it’s not entirely done. At least yet. That being Notre Dame’s chances of making a New Year’s Six bowl game. The vast-majority of …

“So you’re saying there’s a chance?” as Jim Carey once said in Dumb and Dumber.

It might not be a great one, but it’s not entirely done.  At least yet.

That being Notre Dame’s chances of making a New Year’s Six bowl game.  The vast-majority of prognasticators still don’t see it happening that way, but we found one respected expert that did.

So where are the Irish likely headed?  Here’s what we found in this week’s edition of the Notre Dame Bowl Projections:

247Sports/Brad Crawford
Camping World Bowl vs. Texas

CBS/Jerry Palm
Camping World Bowl vs. Texas

College Football News/Pete Fiutak
Camping World Bowl vs. Texas

ESPN (2 Experts)
Bonaqura – Camping World Bowl vs. Texas
Schlabach – Camping World Bowl vs. Oklahoma State

The Sporting News/Bill Bender
Cotton Bowl vs. Memphis

Stadium/Brett McMurphy
Camping World Bowl vs. Oklahoma State

There you go.  He’s @BillBender92 on Twitter if you’re looking for more of his work but he’s got the Irish in the New Year’s Six with three to go.