The 2025-26 college football bowl season has arrived, which means the interest will only increase to lay down college football bets. Washington vs. Boise State (+8.5) kicks things off in the LA Bowl on Saturday, as the first of 46 FBS bowl games. The CFP then begins on Dec. 19, featuring powerhouse programs with Alabama 1.5-point favorites over Oklahoma, per the latest college football bowl odds. The CFP National Championship Game will wrap things up on Jan. 19, 2026, but there are a number of intriguing contests to make cfb predictions on along the way.

The biggest college football bowl spread sees Oregon as 20.5-point favorites over James Madison in a CFP First Round matchup on Dec. 20. Bowl games often see coaches unload their playbooks, leading to lots of points on the scoreboard, so high totals will also be of interest to bettors. One of the highest is Tennessee vs. Illinois (+5.5, 61.5) on Dec. 30, and that's one of four contests with an over/under of at least 60 that you can make college football bowl picks on (see more college football lines right here). 

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Before making any college football picks for 2025-26 college football bowl schedule, be sure to see what the SportsLine Projection Model has to say. 

The model simulates every FBS game 10,000 times, and it is profitable on its top-rated money-line and over/under picks since the beginning of the 2024 season. Anyone following could have seen impressive returns.

Now, it has studied the latest college football odds (see the latest college football lines for each matchup this week on our college football odds page), simulated every single play for every bowl game, and the results are in. 

One of the college football bowl picks the model is high on: Penn State (-1.5, 48.5) covers against Clemson in the Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 27, with the Nittany Lions covering almost 60% of the time. The model also says the Under hits in almost 60% of simulations. Another prediction: Missouri (-7, 50.5) covers versus Virginia in the Gator Bowl on Dec. 27 in well over 50% of simulations.

The model has also made the call on who wins and covers in every other matchup, including calling for five underdogs to outright win in matchups of power conference teams! 

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