I just got an email from 247 saying that odds are strong for MCB
LSU, meanwhile, is headed to the Orlando-based Citrus Bowl after it finished the season 8-4 under now-permanent head coach Ed Orgeron.
The SECs projected lineup elsewhere looks to have surprising Kentucky, which closed the regular season 7-5 for its best year under Mark Stoops, in the TaxSlayer Bowl against the ACCs Georgia Tech.
In Nashville, home-state Tennessee under fourth-year coach Butch Jones is a 99.97-percent certainty to make its second-ever appearance in that bowl and first since 2010 --- Derek Dooleys first year at the helm of the Vols program. Tennessee (8-4), which lost to Vanderbilt and blew its chances for the programs first Sugar Bowl-berth since the end of the 1990 season, will not face Indiana, as has been projected, but is most likely to oppose Nebraska. Iowa and Wisconsin are outside possibilities to gain berths for the Dec. 30 bowl inside the Tennessee Titans Nissan Stadium.
Elsewhere, barring upsets in the ACC and Big Ten championships, Arkansas appears bound for the Charlotte-based Belk Bowl opposite presumed ACC runner-up Virginia Tech. Georgia, per officials, is likely headed for the Memphis-based Liberty Bowl.
South Carolina is bound for the Birmingham Bowl while Vanderbilt is headed for the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.
Bowl bids formally will be extended on Sunday afternoon, after the release of the final College Football Playoff rankings.