The COVID-19 pandemic has left nothing unscathed in the sports calendar, and the bowling season of school football is no different. With Thursday’s Texas Bowl cancellation between TCU and Arkansas, 19 of the 42 bowls scheduled for this season have been canceled.
Some of them are due to a shortage of rostering similar to COVID-19, while others are due to groups that would have qualified for the games being unlinked so that their players and coaches can nevertheless put an end to what has been one of the highs. difficult seasons in the history of the sport.
The remaining 23 games, 12 of which are over, come with some of the biggest matchups of the season, adding all four New Year’s Six Bowl games as well as school football playoffs.
Tank Calendar 2020-2021
December 30
Duke Mayo Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Wake Forest
Bank of America Stadium; Charlotte, North Carolina (noon ET on ESPN)
Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: Oklahoma vs. Florida
In the stadium
31 Dec.
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl: Tulsa vs. Tulsa State of Mississippi
Amon G. Carter Stadium; Fort Worth, Texas (noon ET at ESPN)
Arizona Bowl: Ball State v San Jose State
Arizona Stadium; Tucson, Arizona (4 p. m. ET on CBS Sports)
AutoZone Liberty Bowl: West Virginia vs. Virginia Army (Tennessee Army)
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium; Memphis, Tennessee (4 p. m. ET by ESPN)
January 1
Chick-fil-A Fishing Bowl: Cincinnati vs. Cincinnati Georgia
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta (12:30 pm ET by ESPN) Vrbo Citrus Bowl: Auburn vs. Northwestern
Camping World Stadium; Orlando, Florida (1 p. m. ET on ABC)
Semi-finals of the school football playoffs at the Rose Bowl: No. 1 Alabama vs. Alabama No, four Notre Dame
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Semi-finals of school football playoffs at the Allstate Sugar Bowl: No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 3 Ohio State
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans (8:45 p. m. ET on ESPN)
January 2
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: State of North Carolina vs. Kentucky
TIAA Bank Field; Jacksonville, Florida (noon ET at ESPN)
Outback Bowl: Miss Ole vs. Indiana
Raymond James Stadium; Tampa, Florida (12:30 p. m. ET on ABC)
PlayStation Fiesta Bowl: Oregon vs. Oregon State of Iowa
State Farm Stadium; Glendale, Arizona (4 p. m. ET on ESPN)
Capital One Orange Bowl: Texas A
Hard Rock Stadium; Miami Gardens, Florida (8 p. m. ET by ESPN)
January 11
National College Football Championship through AT
Hard Rock Stadium; Miami Gardens, Florida (8 p. m. ET by ESPN)
College playoff predictions
Unlike almost all other bowling games, by adding some of the six New Year’s games, we won’t see any star players withdraw from school football playoffs. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame have their full list of stars, and for Crimson Tide in particular, it’s an impressive group.
Quarterback Mac Jones, offensive lineman Najee Harris and open receiver DeVonta Smith were named All-Americans of the first Associated Press team, the first time this has happened since 1980.
The Crimson Tide led all systems with six first-team teams, and Smith was named AP College Football Player of the Year, fitting the first catcher to win the award.
Trying to stop them will be a Notre Dame defense that has been among the country’s this season, rising among the top 20 nationally sensitive for gambling-consistent issues, allowed yards consistent with the game, and third defense.
The Fighting Irish have fought the only elite attack they’ve faced this season, Clemson, giving a total of 74 problems in the two games between the groups this season and have their own weapons in Quarterback Trevor Lawrence, offensive part Travis Etienne and Amari Rodgers, the Tigers didn’t even get close to what Crimson Tide was offensively.
Prediction: Alabama 42, Notre Dame 21
At Atlantis, clemson’s team just separated in opposition to Notre Dame in the ACC championship game will face the least tested team that has ever played in school football playoffs. Due to the overdue start of the Big Ten season, as well as some COVID-19 cancellations, the Buckeyes played only five regular-season games before assembling Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship.
OSU did little to convince world school football of its playoffs, winning 22-10 less than impressive. The Buckeyes’ only other Top 25 win came here against Indiana, and was a 42-35 nailer who fell at the last minute.
Clemson, meanwhile, dominated Lawrence in the lineup, and his only defeat was here at Notre Dame earlier in the season when he was absent after positive for COVID-19. The Tigers gently controlled the Irish in the rematch, and their offense is as smart as anyone in Alabama’s undated country.
Prediction: Clemson 34, Ohio State 17
National College Football Championships
Alabama-Clemson fatigue has settled for almost everyone in the outdoor school football of those two teams, but those are just the two most productive systems in the sport.
The two faced each other 3 times in the name adjustment (Clemson leads 2-1), and at least one participated in five of the six national championships held at the time of the PSC.
And it’s hard to expect anything else this season, unless there’s an unexpected surprise in any of the semi-final matches. A fourth game between the two would probably be some other offensive dandy, and if that’s the case, Alabama just Clemson, yet he has Lawrence, an experienced quarterback in that game. Maybe it’s just who’s got the ball last.
Alabama 45, Clemson 38
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