We now probably know who we will not be playing or where.
I looked at last years's CBS preseason Bowl projections done by Jerry Palm. Out of the 39 bowl games that he projected, even with the benefit of conference tie-ins to most of the bowls, he predicted correctly only one matchup (NW vs Kentucky in the Music City). He also predicted correctly only 9 of the 78 teams in the correct bowl (Army in the Armed Forces which was already arranged, Toledo in the dollar general, Iowa in the Pinstripe, Navy in the Military, Stanford in the Alamo, NW/KY, Washington in Fiesta, and Bama in the Sugar).
So, Palm had only about a 12% rate placing teams in a bowl, and less than 3% success rate predicting the actual matchup. A pecking chicken could probably fare better. My guess is that other predictors have similar "success" rates.