Bowl projections after Week 5 - Latest matchups for all 43 games - ESPN
The teams at the top of the college football hierarchy held serve this weekend, although the final scores in wins by Georgia, Washington and USC were a little closer than expected.
Five Top 25 teams took it on the chin, with Utah and LSU both losing tough road matchups, and upstart Duke dropping a heartbreaker to Notre Dame.
How did those games and the rest of the results from Week 5 impact the bowl picture? Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach are here to sort it all out, with projections for all 43 matchups, plus their takes on the College Football Playoff picture, teams in danger of slipping out of the bowl picture altogether and the game they'd be most excited to see.
All times Eastern
CFP National Championship presented by AT&T
NRG Stadium (Houston)
Monday, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Bonagura: Georgia vs. Washington
Schlabach: Michigan vs. Texas
CFP Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California)
Monday, Jan. 1, 5 p.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Bonagura: Michigan vs. Washington
Schlabach: Michigan vs. Washington
CFP Semifinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl
Caesars Superdome (New Orleans)
Monday, Jan. 1, 8:45 p.m., ESPN and the ESPN App
Bonagura: Georgia vs. Texas
Schlabach: Georgia vs. Texas
CFP breakdown
Bonagura: There was no major shakeup to the playoff picture this week as all the contenders added a tally to the win column. As has been the case for several weeks, there's not much to differentiate the teams in the mix. With that understood, Georgia defaults to No. 1 because, despite close wins in both of its SEC games, there isn't a team with a compelling enough résumé to justify dropping the Bulldogs.
Washington was finally held under 40 points in a 31-24 win against