As we suspected, the California Golden Bears will be held out of a bowl game. There were enough 6-6 teams out there to fill out all the bowl slots to keep any teams with 5-7 records and high APR for making it.
Your playoff will be Oklahoma and Georgia playing in the Rose Bowl (tradition!), with a national title rematch of Alabama and Clemson in the Sugar Bowl.
The Pac-12 did get two teams into the New Year’s Six Bowls. The effective Rose Bowl will be taking place in Arlington, with USC and Ohio State battling.