Forecasting the future can be intimidating when the world is chaotic and uncertain. Thankfully, making successful college football bowl predictions aren't as important as some of the biggest issues in the world. But that doesn't make the exercise any easier.

Athlon Sports’ Steven Lassan updates bowl and playoff projections after Week 6. Week 6 results also impacted bowl games outside of the College Football Playoff. Notre Dame’s three wins in a row have moved coach Marcus Freeman’s team to the Pop-Tarts ...

And just like that the College Football Playoff picture has changed again. First, let's start with the teams entering the 12-team field in this week's bowl projections. Texas A&M steps into a spot vacated by Oklahoma after its loss to Texas in Week 7.