Updated 2011/2012 Bowl Game Predictions

Last week I debuted the 2011/2012 Bowl Predictions so naturally Stanford lost and threw everything into a funk. These predictions are a combination of where the teams stand today and how I predict they will finish out the season. A lot of the seedings also depend on which "at large" teams are chosen by the BCS Bowls. Last week I had Oregon and Boise State going to these "at large" bowls, this week Boise is out and Oregon has moved up to the Rose Bowl opening up those two slots for other teams. I flirted with Bama vs Stanford and Oklahoma vs Nebraska in the two "at large" bowls but I just don't see how they could pass up an undefeated Houston. Also, some of the conferences are not projecting to supply their full slate of teams so some replacements were taken that did not have fall back plans in terms of tie-ins (I am projecting the Pac-12, C-USA and Big 12 not using all of their bowl slots which opens up the Pinestripe, Beef O'Brady and New Mexico bowls to at-large teams of their own). Bowl eligible teams left on the outside looking in based on my projections are Air Force and Temple.

Tom from The Recruiting Eagle made some good observations about my potential Clemson/Auburn match-up in the Chick-fil-A bowl so I did swap out Auburn and Florida with Florida going to the Chick-fil-A and Auburn to the Gator.

BCS Championship Game	LSU	vs.	Oklahoma State
Rose Bowl	Oregon	vs.	Wisconsin
Orange Bowl	Virginia Tech	vs.	Cincinnati
Sugar Bowl	Alabama	vs.	Houston
Fiesta Bowl	Oklahoma	vs.	Stanford
Sun Bowl	Arizona State	vs.	Georgia Tech
Cotton Bowl	Kansas State	vs.	Arkansas
Gator Bowl	Auburn	vs.	Ohio State
Liberty Bowl	Southern Miss	vs.	Mississippi State
Capital One	Michigan State	vs.	Georgia
Chick-fil-A	Clemson	vs.	Florida
Independence Bowl	Virginia	vs.	San Diego State
Holiday Bowl	Missouri	vs.	Utah
Outback Bowl	Nebraska	vs.	South Carolina
Insight Bowl	Baylor	vs.	Penn State
Champs Sports Bowl	FSU	vs.	Notre Dame
Maaco Bowl Las Vegas	TCU	vs.	UCLA
Alamo Bowl	Texas	vs.	Washington
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl	Louisiana Tech	vs.	Toledo
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl	Purdue	vs.	NIU
Music City Bowl	Miami	vs.	Tennessee
GoDaddy.com Bowl	Arkansas State	vs.	Ohio
Meineke Car Care Bowl	Texas A&M	vs.	Iowa
New Mexico Bowl	Wyoming	vs.	South Florida
New Orleans Bowl	UCF	vs.	Louisiana
Belk Bowl	Wake Forest	vs.	West Virginia
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl	California	vs.	UNC
Sheraton Hawai'I Bowl	SMU	vs.	Hawai'i
Armed Forces Bowl	Marshall	vs.	BYU
Poinsettia Bowl	Boise State	vs.	Nevada
Compass Bowl	Vanderbilt	vs.	Louisville
Military Bowl	NC State	vs.	Navy
Beef O' Brady's Bowl	Pittsburgh	vs.	Northwestern
New Era Pinstripe Bowl	Rutgers	vs.	Illinois
TicketCity Bowl	Michigan	vs.	Tulsa

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