Week 11 Bowl Projections: CFP Hopes Fade for Contenders

Happy trails, Houston, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and USC. The SEC’s chaos scenario of five teams in the College Football Playoff’s final bracket is finished after Week 11 was unkind for several multi-loss and nationally ranked hopefuls within the conference. Coupled with Houston’s loss at Colorado and USC’s setback at Indiana, there’s a handful of squads whose chances have plummeted coming down the stretch given their expected falls in the CFP Selection Committee’s updated rankings. We’ve updated our CFP bracket to reflect how we think it’ll look at season’s end, along with matchup picks for every bowl game with two…