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None of the three remaining Power Five conferences have yet to play a single football game this fall, but that does not stop ESPN from offering its prognostications on the Football Bowl Subdivision postseason as college football’s Week 1 winds down to a close.
Writers Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach both take a stab at their bowl projections in an article published on Sunday, with the former giving the nod to the Florida Gators for a College Football Playoff appearance, while the latter sees a New Year’s Six matchup at the end of the season.
Bonagura picked Florida as his opponent against the Clemson Tigers in the Rose Bowl, though he predicts a loss as he selected Clemson facing off against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the National Championship Game. His colleague Schlabach, on the other hand, sees the Georgia Bulldogs taking the field opposite of the Tigers, though he also agreed that the championship matchup would feature the Tigers versus ‘Bama.
In regards to the Gators, Schlabach sees oranges again come postseason time, foreseeing a tangle with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Miami for Florida’s second-straight appearance in the Orange Bowl — against an itinerant ACC foe this time around. Not surprisingly, Bonagura picked Georgia as Notre Dame’s opponent in this bowl game as the two appear to disagree on who will take the SEC title.
Florida begins its fall football season on Saturday, Sept. 26, against the Ole Miss Rebels at Vaught–Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss., with kickoff scheduled for 12 p.m. ET.
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