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Texas A&M Basketball interestingly positioned in CBS Sports’ newest bracket update

In CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jerry Palm’s newest bracket, Texas A&M is listed as a “first four” team.

Texas A&M (13-8, 4-4 SEC) got back on track after escaping the red-hot Florida Gators 68-67 on Saturday afternoon, as veteran guard Tyrece Radford’s game-high 26 points included the game-winning basket in one of his more memorable and passionate performances in his Aggie career.

Looking to finally find some momentum and create a lasting win streak in conference play, every game is now of the utmost importance, starting with Wednesday’s road trip against the Missouri Tigers, who have yet to win a game in SEC play.

Looking ahead to next month’s NCAA Tournament, Texas A&M’s current positioning has been scattered across the board, remaining on the periphery in multiple brackets, including CBS Sports’ newest bracket update.

According to CBS Sports “Bracketologist” Jerry Palm, the Aggies are listed as one of eight “first four” teams during the first two days of action, positioned as an 11-seed facing the 11-seeded Michigan State Spartans. Hypothetically, with a victory over the Spartans, A&M would face 5th-seeded Dayton in Brooklyn, New York.

Aggies’ head coach Buzz Williams isn’t on the hot seat, but to continue building toward a successful future, earning a second consecutive tournament bid is absolutely vital to avoiding a significant step backward.

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College Football Playoff projections after Week 10: Vols are still in

College Football Playoff projections after Week 10: The Vols are still in

No. 3 Tennessee (8-1, 4-1 SEC) played at No. 1 Georgia (9-0, 6-0 SEC) Saturday in Week 10.

Rankings reflect the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll.

The Vols are No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, while Georgia is No. 3.

Georgia defeated the Vols, 27-13, at Sanford Stadium.

Tennessee’s 2022 regular-season schedule features home games against Ball State (W, 59-10), Akron (W, 63-6), Florida (W, 38-33), Alabama (W, 52-49), UT Martin (W, 65-24), Kentucky (W, 44-6) and Missouri.

The Vols’ 2022 schedule features road contests at Pittsburgh (W, 34-27 OT) in the second edition of the Johnny Majors Classic, LSU (W, 40-13), Georgia (L, 27-13), South Carolina and Vanderbilt.

Following Week 10 games, Jerry Palm of CBS Sports released updated College Football Playoff rankings.

Palm has the Vols listed in his current College Football Playoff projections. Palm’s projections following Week 10 are listed below.

Which Bowl game does CBS Sports see Florida playing after losing to Georgia?

Jerry Palm of CBS Sports still sees Florida playing in a bowl game this year, but which one?

Florida may have covered the spread against Georgia on Saturday, but a three-score loss doesn’t have fans confident that the Gators will be playing in a bowl game this year.

Jerry Palm of CBS Sports isn’t buying that narrative just yet, though. He has the Gators playing against Washington in the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 17, according to his latest bowl game projections.

The Vegas Bowl has become a popular prediction for Florida’s postseason contest. With tie-ins to the SEC and Pac-12, a six-win Florida team would fit the bill nicely for this game. That means Florida’s opponent will likely have a location advantage, being from the West Coast, but Gator Nation is vast and will show up en masse to support their program.

Currently, Palm sees the Gators matching up with the Washington Huskies, which would be the first matchup between the two since 1989. Florida lost the Freedom Bowl matchup 34-7 that year, so this could be an opportunity for revenge.

UF still has to become bowl eligible, though. With four games left and a 4-4 record, the Gators will have to win twice against Texas A&M, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Florida State. The Commodores are the only one of those four that seems like a sure-fire win, so Florida can’t afford to slack off down the stretch.

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CBS Sports projects Florida to face off with a Pac-12 opponent come bowl season

After eight weeks of college football, Florida is projected to play in a bowl game out west against a Pac-12 opponent.

Jerry Palm of CBS Sports has released his post-Week 8 bowl projections, and he has the Florida Gators facing off with the Washington Huskies on Dec. 17 in the Las Vegas Bowl.

The Las Vegas Bowl has become a popular projection for the Gators, who currently sit at 4-3 on the season with No. 1 Georgia, Texas A&M, No. 25 South Carolina and Florida State left on the schedule. Assuming Florida beats Vanderbilt in November, the Gators will need to win just one of those four games to become bowl eligible.

Last year, Florida played in the Gasparilla Bowl against UCF in Tampa. The in-state game made it easy for fans of either school to attend and there was plenty of regional interest in the annoying little brother versus struggling older brother matchup. Playing out west against a Pac-12 school might make it a bit harder on the Florida faithful, but there are Gators fans all over the country.

Palm projects every bowl game and has Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson and Tennessee in the College Football Playoff. Alabama is the first team out and Michigan is No. 6. Interestingly, Palm sees Florida State matching up with Utah in the postseason. The Gators took down the Utes to start the regular season and will end it against the Seminoles.

Of course, these projections could look a lot different in a week if Florida can pull off the upset against Georgia this weekend.

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Vols projected for New Year’s Six bowl following 3-0 start

Tennessee is projected for a New Year’s Six bowl game following 3-0 start.

Tennessee (3-0, 0-0 SEC) will host Florida (2-1, 0-1 SEC) Saturday at Neyland Stadium in Week 4.

Kickoff is slated for 3:30 p.m. EDT. CBS will televise the Southeastern Conference East matchup.

ESPN College GameDay announced it will be in Knoxville, Saturday before kickoff between Tennessee and Florida.

Tennessee enters its Week 4 contest following a 63-6 win against Akron at Neyland Stadium.

2022 Tennessee Vols’ football schedule: Vols Wire’s downloadable schedule wallpaper

Following Week 3, Jerry Palm of CBS Sports released updated bowl projections. Palm has Tennessee projected to play in the Sugar Bowl.

Below are Palm’s College Football Playoff and New Year’s Six bowl game projections, including the Vols’ Sugar Bowl opponent.

Oklahoma Sooners underrated heading into 2022?

After being considered overrated by a couple of writers in CBS Sports Big 12 preview, others consider the Sooners underrated ahead of 2022.

CBS Sports has a deep roster of writers with varying opinions, especially regarding college football. Last week, CBS Sports writers chronicled the Big 12, where they looked at the league heading into 2022. Oklahoma was listed as one of the Big 12’s more overrated teams by writers Shehan Jeyarajah and Barrett Sallee.

This time around, the CBS Sports’ writing team is looking at the college football landscape as a whole, and lo and behold, Oklahoma is on the other side of the discussion. CBS Sports David Cobb believes Oklahoma is underrated as the 2022 season approaches.

The Big 12 looks wide open at the top as five programs, which translates to half the league, received at least one first-place vote in the preseason media poll. But that scattershot of opinions discounts how well-equipped Oklahoma is to thrive in Year 1 under new coach Brent Venables. The offense won’t miss a beat with UCF transfer Dillon Gabriel at quarterback, and the defense should immediately improve after years of mediocrity under former coach Lincoln Riley. With Baylor’s questions at the skill positions, Oklahoma State’s significant defensive losses and the general inconsistency of Texas, it’s Oklahoma that still stands out as the class of the Big 12. – Cobb, CBS Sports

In contrast to his colleagues, Cobb notes how Oklahoma has equipped itself to handle the turnover. Another factor Cobb considered are the losses its direct competition underwent as well.

You don’t win six straight conference titles and then fade into obscurity at a program with the resources of Oklahoma. Especially if you hired one of the sport’s best defensive minds’ as your head coach and one of the brightest offensive minds to pair with him.

Cobb and his colleague Jerry Palm even predicted that Oklahoma would make the College Football Playoff as the fourth seed along with Ohio State, Alabama, and Clemson.

Venables was Cobb and Palm’s preseason pick for coach of the year.

The Sooners’ steady athletic leadership picked the perfect replacement for Riley by hiring a coveted name with Oklahoma roots in Venables, the long-time Clemson defensive coordinator. Though defense is his speciality, he already avoided the trap of pigeon-holing his program into a one-dimensional box by hiring Jeff Lebby as offensive coordinator. Venables and Lebby have been among the best coordinators in the sport for several years, and their coalescence at a university of personal significance to both is a recipe for immediate success. Venables will get the Sooners headed in the right direction defensively while implementing elements of Clemson’s culture in a way that keeps this team in national title contention. – Cobb, CBS Sports

This season will be a test of different proportions for Venables in his first year as a head coach. If the Sooners find themselves in the playoffs, there’s no reason Venables wouldn’t deserve coach of the year consideration.

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CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm predicts Notre Dame-Clemson in Orange Bowl

Would you like to see this rematch?

We have no idea how Notre Dame’s season will play out. Sure, it probably will be a very good one like everyone is predicting, but those predictions are just those. You can say that for just about every team in college football. Still, Jerry Palm of CBS Sports took a crack at predicting every bowl matchup for the coming season, and he has the Irish and Clemson in the Orange Bowl less than two months after the programs’ Nov. 5 meeting at Notre Dame Stadium.

If this comes to pass, five of the Irish’s seven most recent bowls will have been a New Year’s Six bowl. It would give the Irish their third chance since 2018 to beat the Tigers on a big stage after failing badly in the 2018 Cotton Bowl and the 2020 ACC title game. It also would be the Irish’s first Orange Bowl berth since a 31-26 loss to Florida State on New Year’s Day in 1996.

You know you want to see [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] and his team tossing the oranges from that trophy out to whoever is in the vicinity after that game, so let’s see them make it happen.

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Alabama’s projected seeding on Selection Sunday

Let’s see Alabama’s projected seeding on Selection Sunday

Good Sunday morning ladies and gentlemen. I am sure everyone is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after springing forward in time last night. Even with somewhat heavy eyes, I do have some news to report early this Sunday morning.

The college basketball conference tournaments will conclude later this afternoon and the NCAA tournament committee will release its official tournament bracket at 5:00 p.m. CT on CBS.

Some changes could obviously happen with a handful of bubble teams still fighting for spot in the tournament but fortunately for the Tide, Alabama is securely in the field of 68.

Joe Lunardi of ESPN and Jerry Palm of CBS were both up in the wee hours of the morning to update their respective projected brackets.

According to Lunardi’s bracket, Alabama is the sixth seed on the East side of the bracket and will be matching up with the eleventh seed Rutgers.

In Palm’s latest bracket, Alabama is the seventh seed on the West side and is matched up with ten seed Wyoming.

Rub the sleep out of your eyes and get your popcorn ready, March Madness is about to kick into high gear.

Stay tuned to Roll Tide Wire for updated bracket projections and for Alabama’s official seeding in the 2022 NCAA tournament.

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Different seeds, same opponent for Tigers in latest CBS Sports and ESPN bracketology projections

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has the Tigers as a No. 6 seed, while CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm has them on the seven-seed line. Both, however, have them drawing Wyoming.

LSU missed an opportunity to add a gem to its resume on Wednesday night against an Arkansas team that is playing like one of the nation’s best right now. Still, the loss on the road to a team that had won 14 of its last 15 entering the matchup won’t reflect too poorly on Will Wade’s squad.

This team is an essential lock to make the NCAA Tournament with 20 wins on the year already and a NET Ranking in the top 20. But it’s not playing its best basketball in the second half of the season.

Since Jan. 15, this team is just 5-9. It played back-to-back opponents tough on the road, holding second-half leads at Kentucky and against the Razorbacks. Neither panned out, though, and the Tigers may not find themselves in the best seeding position if they don’t win the finale against Alabama on Saturday and make a nice run in next week’s SEC Tournament.

Here’s how the Tigers fare in the most recent bracket projections heading into the final game of the regular season.

Next: ESPN Bracketology from Joe Lunardi

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Here’s where LSU stands in the latest expert bracketology projections

The Tigers saw their seed line drop in one projection after the loss to South Carolina.

Missing the NCAA Tournament isn’t much of a concern for the Tigers at this point. With a top-20 ranking in the NET, they’re essentially a lock to go dancing in March.

But LSU may have done some damage to its seeding on Saturday with a surprising road loss to South Carolina. The Gamecocks orchestrated a come-from-behind two-point win that ended the Tigers’ three-game winning streak.

Now, things don’t get any easier for LSU, who takes on Kentucky at Rupp Arena on Wednesday night. Heading into what is the most challenging game remaining on the schedule, here’s what the experts think about LSU’s tournament resume.

Next: ESPN bracketology from Joe Lunardi

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