…there’s angling for possible at-large spots to the BCS, to good New Year’s Day bowl games and to bowl eligibility itself. TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will touch on some key overview points and then make some Big Ten bowl projections.
Let’s take a brief look at the landscape in the nation’s top conference and then make some SEC bowl projections…
TheSportsNotebook’s BCS bowl projections have been impacted by the narrow escapes of Saturday, none of which ended in upsets, but a couple of which required a re-evaluation at the top of the Pac-12.
The legal saying “The defense rests” applied on Saturday a lot more than fans in outposts like Columbia, Austin and South Bend would have liked. The defenses of South Carolina, Texas and Notre Dame were positively awful in big road losses that reshaped TheSportsNotebook’s BCS bowl projections. Here’s the rundown on the damage and the new-look bowl projections.
We’ve been previewing each conference in college football throughout the month of August here at TheSportsNotebook and with the season set to begin tomorrow, it’s time to tie it all together into one final college football preview preseason extravaganza