Bowl-o-rama, Day 10

I need to start digging up.

Texas:  Texas A&M -9.5 v. Northwestern

Sun:  Georgia Tech -2 v. Utah

Fight Hunger:  Illinois -2.5 v. UCLA

Liberty:  Cincinnati -1.5 v. Vanderbilt

Chick-Fil-A:  Auburn -3 v.  Virginia

Bowl Season:  7-12

Bowl-o-rama, Day 9

Armed Forces Bowl:  BYU 1.5 v. Tulsa

Pinstripe:  Rutgers -1 v. Iowa State

Music City:  Mississippi State -7 v. Wake Forest

Insight:  Oklahoma -14 v. Iowa

Bowl Season:  6-9

Has there been a quadrupleheader of college football action that has been as least-interesting as this one?

Bowl-o-rama, Days 7 & 8

I don't like working during the bowl season.  Or my picks thus far.

Military Bowl: Toledo -3 v. Air Force

Holiday Bowl:  Texas -3.5 v. California

Champ Sports Bowl:  Florida State -3.5 v. Notre Dame

Alamo:  Baylor - 9 v. Washington

If this were real money, I wouldn't touch that Champ Sports Bowl.

Bowl-o-rama, Days 6 & 7

Combining both today and tomorrow as I am traveling tomorrow.  Hopefully neither pick misses by half a point, although I am not very confident on tonight's clash in Shreveport.

Independence:  Missouri -5.5 v. North Carolina

Little Caeser's Pizza:  Purdue -3 v. Western Michigan

Belk:  North Carolina State -1 v. Louisville

Bowl Season:  3-5

Bowl-o-rama, Day 5

Happy Holidays!

Southern Miss -7.5 v. Nevada

Bowl season:  3-4

Bowl-o-rama, Day 4

Let's try this again.  I trust Boise.

Boise State -14 v. Arizona State

Bowl Season:  2-4

I'm on Sidebets at hwoodng.  With the way I'm picking, you can really clean up.

Bowl-o-rama, Day 3

I've lost three straight games.  Time for that to end.

TCU -10 v. Louisiana Tech

Bowl season:  2-3

Bowl-o-rama, Day 2

Florida International -4 v. Marshall

Bowl Record:  2-2

Bowl-o-rama, Day 1

After a little inactivity, the blog returns with picks each day of bowl games, against the spread of course.  From the Gildan New Mexico Bowl to the BCS title game.  The benefit of this glut of games is that I learn about these brave corporate sponsors and what it is they do.  For example, Gildan is some sort of underwear manufacturer.


New Mexico Bowl
Temple -7 v. Wyoming

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Utah State -2 v. Ohio

New Orleans Bowl
San Diego State -4 v. Louisiana-Lafayette

Wyoming finished a surprising 3rd in the Mountain West this year, despite having the nation's 115th-ranked defense.  Temple has Dr. Bernard Pierce at running back, and should cap a fine season with Temple's first bowl win since 1979.  I think all the close losses to better teams pay off for Utah State this post season.  ULLAF is essentially playing a home game, and Mark Hudspeth is a name to keep an eye on as coach, taking a team picked to finish last in the Sun Belt to their first bowl game since joining 1-A, but San Diego State is far superior athletically.

Bonus pick:

Wayne State, Detroit's only college football team, has made a Cinderella run through the Division 2 playoffs and has made the final v. Pittsburg State.  From what I read, midnight is about to strike.

Pittsburg State -10.5 v. Wayne State

For Entertainment Purposes Lock Of The Week - Week 14

Last one of these for the season, and while staring consecutive 10-win seasons in the face, I'm about to do something rash that I never do:  bet on Michigan State.

Wisconsin -9.5 v. Michigan State

I'm a Spartan fan, so let's get that out of the way.

Michigan State is 2-0 against Wisconsin the last two seasons.  To say that on a neutral field, with two teams as evenly matched as these two, and Michigan State's superior defense, that Wisconsin, a team that beat Nebraska and no one else on the way to a 10-win season, is a two-score favorite is absurd.  This is a media-driven line, given that the narrative is Wisconsin is on an inevitable march to the Rose Bowl and just has to get by some team in the title game.  Yeah, some team that also won 10 games.  And how many Big Games has Bielema won, anyways?  Bet the other way.

Last Week:  Stanford -7.5 v. Notre Dame (correct)
Season:  9-4