Tennessee is projected to play in the Music City Bowl versus Illinois. The Music City Bowl will be contested on Dec. 30 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Kickoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. EST and will be televised by ESPN.

Here is where various national media outlets have Missouri football projected to play its bowl game with four games remaining in the regular season.

We're at Week 10 of the college football season, and here are Illinois' updated bowl game projections — and most experts really can't agree.

The upsets in Week 10 of the college football season have led to several changes to the playoff field in the latest USA TODAY Sports bowl projections.

Interim head coach Terry Smith addresses whether the Nittany Lions would play in a bowl game if they're eligible.

Ohio State running back Bo Jackson, top, is tackled by Penn State defensive back Antoine Belgrave-Shorter during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

Traditional powers are fading. Preseason favorites have collapsed. Programs once buried in obscurity now dominate the national conversation. Indiana, Vanderbilt, and Georgia Tech, long dismissed as irrelevant, are winning consistently and not only are factors in the playoff race, but they are legitimate contenders for the national championship.

At one point, the Iowa Hawkeyes were 3-2 and had their work cut out to make a bowl game. Now, they're 6-2 heading into one of the biggest games in recent memory

Kansas State football needs to win two of its last three games to go to a bowl game. Here's where the Wildcats are projected to play.

The Stanford Cardinal needs to win three of its final four games to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2018, and faces red-hot Pitt at Stanford Stadium on Saturday.