Bowl projections after Week 6 fallout from Texas loss - ESPN

Oklahoma shook up the top four by beating Texas, while Georgia and Michigan posted their most impressive wins of the season to solidify their positions in our projected playoff pairings.

With the Longhorns slipping, who takes their place? Florida State, which cruised past Virginia Tech? Ohio State, after handing Maryland its first loss of the season? Penn State? Oregon? The Sooners?

Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach are here to sort it out, looking at the Week 6 results up and down the college football scoreboard to make their projections for all 43 bowl matchups, plus their takes on the College Football Playoff picture, the Group of 5 teams to watch 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: Georgia vs.Michigan

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. Florida State
Schlabach: Georgia vs. Florida State

CFP breakdown

Bonagura: The big change this week is that Texas is back outside the playoff picture after losing to Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry. Can the Longhorns get back in? Sure. You can never safely eliminate a one-loss Power 5 team, but their margin for error is gone. The Sooners are now the default Big 12 team up for consideration but ended up just on the outside this week.

There remains no reason to move Georgia out of the top spot with