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Bowl Game Projections Roundup, Week 10: Can Oklahoma Steal Okie State's Title Berth?

Here's a collection of Week 10 bowl projections, all of which feature two teams from Oklahoma in BCS games. But let's not forget about the other 34 bowls, each of which needs projecting as well.

The Oklahoma St. Cowboys are No. 3 in Week 10's BCS rankings, and comfortably ahead of the Stanford Cardinal, putting them in line to take either the No. 2 spot should the LSU Tigers or Alabama Crimson Tide indeed lose on Nov. 5. One of these two teams almost certainly will lose. I have inside knowledge.

But keep an eye on the surging Oklahoma Sooners, who the human polls have adored all year long. The Coaches Poll, which makes up a third of the BCS, kept OU at No. 1 for multiple weeks after it was clear LSU had earned the spot. The Sooners have made their way back to No. 6 after losing to Texas Tech only a week ago, and could jump up and grab OK State's spot, since those two play each other as well.

But there are 34 other bowl games to project, almost all of them horrible and all of them precious. Here we've collected Week 10 projections by Phil SteeleScout.com and ESPN's Brad Edwards and Mark Schlabach:

 

Bowl Phil Steele Edwards Scout Schlabach

 

BCS Championship, 1/9 Alabama-Oklahoma State Alabama-Oklahoma State LSU-Oklahoma Alabama-Oklahoma State

 

Orange, 1/4 Clemson-Cincinnati Clemson-Cincinnati Clemson-West Virginia Clemson-West Virginia

 

Sugar, 1/3 LSU-Stanford LSU-Boise State Alabama-Boise State LSU-Boise State

 

Rose, 1/2 Michigan State-Oregon Wisconsin-Oregon Wisconsin-Oregon Stanford-Nebraska

 

Fiesta, 1/2 Oklahoma-Boise State Oklahoma-Stanford Oklahoma State-Stanford Oklahoma-Oregon

 

GoDaddy, 1/8 Temple-FIU Toledo-UL Lafayette Temple-UL Lafayette Toledo-UL Lafayette

 

Compass, 1/7 Pitt-UL Lafayette South Florida-Vanderbilt Rutgers-Vanderbilt Syracuse-Ohio

 

Cotton, 1/6 Texas A&M-Arkansas Texas-Arkansas Kansas State-Auburn Kansas State-Georgia

 

Outback, 1/2 Nebraska-South Carolina Nebraska-South Carolina Nebraska-Georgia Penn State-South Carolina

 

Gator, 1/2 Penn State-Florida Ohio State-Florida Michigan State-Florida Wisconsin-Florida

 

Capitol One, 1/2 Wisconsin-Arkansas Michigan-Georgia Michigan-Arkansas Michigan-Arkansas

 

TicketCity, 1/2 Iowa-Tulsa Iowa-SMU Illinois-SMU Illinois-SMU

 

Chick-fil-A, 12/31 Virginia Tech-Auburn Virginia Tech-Auburn Virginia Tech-South Carolina Virginia Tech-Auburn

 

Liberty, 12/31 Houston-Mississippi State Houston-Tennessee Houston-Mississippi State Houston-Mississippi State

 

Sun, 12/31 Georgia Tech-California Georgia Tech-Utah Georgia Tech-California Georgia Tech-Utah

 

Texas, 12/31 Ohio State-Baylor Penn State-Missouri Ohio State-Texas A&M Ohio State-Baylor

 

Kraft, 12/31 Syracuse-N.C. State Fresno State-Wake Forest Utah-Pitt Fresno State-N.C. State

 

Insight, 12/30 Kansas State-Michigan Michigan State-Kansas State Penn State-Texas Michigan State-Texas A&M

 

Music City, 12/30 Miami-Tennessee Virginia-Mississippi State Wake Forest-Tennessee Virginia-Vanderbilt

 

Armed Forced, 12/30 Southern Miss-BYU Southern Miss-BYU Tulsa-BYU Southern Miss-BYU

 

Pinstripe, 12/30 Rutgers-Missouri Rutgers-Baylor Syracuse-Baylor Rutgers-Missouri

 

Alamo, 12/29 Texas-Arizona State Texas A&M-Arizona State Missouri-Arizona State Texas-Arizona State

 

Champs Sports, 12/29 Florida State-Notre Dame Florida State-Notre Dame Florida State-Notre Dame Florida State-Notre Dame

 

Holiday, 12/28 Texas Tech-Washington Texas Tech-Washington Texas A&M-Washington Texas Tech-Washington

 

Military, 12/28 Virginia-UTEP N.C. State-East Carolina Miami-Marshall Miami-Western Michigan

 

Belk, 12/27 North Carolina-West Virginia West Virginia-North Carolina Cincinnati-North Carolina Cincinnati-North Carolina

 

Little Caesars, 12/27 Illinois-Toledo Illinois-Northern Illinois Toledo-Iowa Temple-Iowa

 

Independence, 12/26 Air Force-Wake Forest Miami-Air Force Wyoming-Virginia Wake Forest-Wyoming

 

Hawaii, 12/24 SMU-Hawaii UTEP-Hawaii UCF-Hawaii Tulsa-Hawaii

 

Las Vegas, 12/22 TCU-Utah TCU-California TCU-UCLA TCU-California

 

Poinsettia, 12/21 San Diego State-Nevada San Diego State-Nevada Air Force-Louisiana Tech San Diego State-Nevada

 

St. Petersburg, 12/20 South Florida-UCF Syracuse-UCF South Florida-Southern Miss Pitt-East Carolina

 

New Orleans, 12/17 Arkansas State-Marshall Arkansas State-Tulsa Arkansas State-UTEP Arkansas State-UTEP

 

Idaho Potato, 12/17 Fresno State-Ohio Temple-Louisiana Tech Nevada-Northern Illinois Louisiana Tech-Northern Illinois

 

New Mexico, 12/17 Colorado State-Northern Illinois Wyoming-Ohio San Diego State-Purdue Air Force-Eastern Michigan

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