College football bowl projections 2019: Post-Week 1 edition

One week is in the books, and this how college football’s bowl projections stack up after an eventful opening week of the season.

Bowl projections after just a single week of the college football season is foolish, I give you. College football is constantly over-analyzed as high-brow assumptions are made after single games more than any other sport. But that’s part of what makes this the best sport on the planet. Seasons can be made or broken by just a single result.

While Week 1 certainly wasn’t the juiciest of slates, there was still plenty of surprising and intriguing results across the landscape. After a long offseason, the college football gods gifted us with a long Labor Day weekend worth of football.

There was incredible plays, wild finishes, and downright strange happens (looking at you Hugh Freeze). Everything we love about this dumb sport can be encapsulated into one screen capture of Freeze coaching a game from a hospital bed in the press box.

Bowl projections are fluid, and they will fluctuate greatly from week-to-week. Most of these predictions will prove foolish in a few months, but it’s still fun to try and prognosticate after a week’s worth of observations.

Some teams got off to typically great starts, others pulled off surprising wins, and some had devastating defeats that put their bowl aspirations in serious doubt after just a single game.

What teams are already knocking on the door of the College Football Playoff? How is the New Year’s Six shaping up in the early going? And what about the rest of the bowl games?

Let’s take a look at bowl projections after the first week-plus of action on the gridiron.