Today’s blogs gives you a look at all my bowl projections for the upcoming season. Naturally these projections can be found on page 2 and 16 in my 2011 College Football Preview but I include them on my site because we update the projections as the season progresses and also as the teams accept bowl bids.

New Bowls/Changes:

The Humanitarian Bowl has been renamed the Idaho Potato Bowl. The Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas has replaced the Texas Bowl while the former Meineke Car Bowl will now be called the Belk Bowl. Also there have been some date changes for many bowl games including all New Year’s Day bowl games being played on January 2nd instead of January 1st with New Year’s Day falling on a Sunday (NFL).

Other Bowl Notes:

The order of selection for this year’s BCS games is Fiesta, Sugar, Orange. However, the bowls that lose host conference champions to the BCS title game get to replace those teams before other selections are made.

Notre Dame is eligible for all bowls in which the Big East has a commitment, as well as the BCS. It also serves as the backup for the Big 12 in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Navy will be invited to the Military Bowl if it qualifies for selection while Army will be invited to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl if it qualifies for selection. For the 2011 season, a 9th bowl-eligible ACC team is next in line to fill either the PAC-12 or Army’s slot, if necessary.

BYU will be invited to the Armed Forces Bowl if it qualifies for selection.

Sun Belt teams with records of 7-5 or better are next in line to fill the Big 10′s slot in the Little Caesar’s Bowl if the Big 10 does not have an eligible team. The Sun Belt is also the first backup for any opening in the St. Petersburg Bowl, and has a secondary provisional agreement for the BBVA Compass Bowl.

Finally Hawaii is automatically invited to the Hawaii Bowl if it has at least 7 wins. Otherwise, the WAC sends its 3rd-place team.

Here are my 2011-12 Bowl Projections!

Many of you have asked me for an updated Bowl Projections listing since USC was eliminated from bowl contention recently. In the magazine which went to press before the NCAA’s ruling I projected the Trojans to go to the Rose Bowl. Naturally most of my Pac-10 selections for bowls have changed with the ineligibility of USC. Oregon now gets my pick to go to the Rose Bowl and a lot of the other Pac-10 teams get bumped up. Here are my current projections for all 35 of this year’s bowl games which includes the BCS Championship game.

2010-2011 Bowl Schedule and Projections