New College Football Playoff and bowl projections, where it's hard not to put Michigan up top

Hello, how are you? I'm fine, thank you. You're now reading a weekly list of guesses as to which college football teams will play in which bowl games at the end of the year. It's too early to do this, which is why it's guessing. Sounds fun!

The main thing this week: running very low on reasons to expect Ohio State in the College Football Playoff instead of Michigan. The Wolverines have plainly been better so far, and their potential Big Ten East championship meeting is in Ann Arbor.

Still leaning on OSU eventually becoming what a roster this loaded should be, and the Buckeyes did pull away to beat Maryland by 21 points despite following 2014 Florida State's Let A Bad Team Stay Pretty Close For A Long Time recipe to the letter again. But if Ohio State looks mediocre next week against Penn State as Michigan beats Michigan State, it might be time to see what a switch looks like.

For now, here are picks for every bowl game. You won't like them all, but we'll still be friends!

The rest of the Playoff holds steady this weekend. Alabama and Clemson outlasted disappointing rivals, while Baylor is sailing miles above of the rest of the Big 12, at very least until it starts playing OK teams.

Also next week, Baylor looks to avenge its only 2014 loss, against West Virginia. Bama gets top-10 Texas A&M, and Clemson tries to score like six points on Boston College's defense, which should be enough to win.

Not really quite convinced the Utes will rank ahead of LSU or UCLA in the final Playoff rankings (which help determine these games), but it feels pretty good to put Utah in the sub-marquee group for now. Let's see how LSU looks once the bulk of its schedule finally arrives and let's see how the Bruins bounce back from a two-score loss to Arizona State.

I realize this is talking up Michigan's postseason chances while running down the team to which it's lost (as if a Fiesta Bowl is bad), but life is long and hard. Also the Utes currently have a negative yards-per-play differential, ranking No. 63 in the country against FBS opponents there.

The upset-surviving TCU takes over for non-survivor Oklahoma.

Otherwise, Week 6 affirmed pretty much everything in this bunch.

Leaving us this week Boston College and Georgia Tech, who combined for roughly 17 yards on Saturday (not looking this up). Joining us: Texas and Akron, just the latest thing Texas and Akron have in common.

The weekly apology for not finding Leonard Fournette a better bowl is here.

Arizona fans, your spot is unfair, but the easy travel, good matchup and attention paid to Rich Rodriguez against the school that sued him would make up for it, right?

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