With College Football Playoff expansion here ahead of the 2024 season along with widespread changes across the power conferences, this fall is going to be exciting as the sport's bowl schedule takes a major turn. We've updated our summer bowl projections for every matchup ahead of various media days next month in anticipation of fall camp beginning a few weeks from now.
Bowl tie-ins, unless there are contractual obligations, could change significantly based on how ESPN sees fit. For instance, with the Pac-12 no more, there are still six games with affiliations through the 2025 season and they are the Holiday, Alamo, Vegas, Los Angeles, Sun and Independence. Expect those tie-ins to remain despite the league dissolving with teams leaving for the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12, respectively. What's left of the Pac-12 — in other words, Washington State and Oregon State — will remain eligible for Pac-12 bowls if each hit the six-win plateau along with the teams who left for other leagues.
Despite several college football bowl season tie-ins in flux ahead of the 2024 season, the Alamo Bowl's request to include SEC-bound Texas or Oklahoma in its 2024 or 2025 games was denied, according to The Action Network's Brett McMurphy. Alamo Bowl reps requested the Longhorns or Sooners as possible replacements for the now-defunct Pac-12 tie-in, but contractually, that isn't going to work out.
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That said, projections this time of year are always fun, so let's get to it:
