For those of you who didn’t play last year, here’s how it works. You pick a winner for every bowl game. Then you bet 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 points on your pick. If the team you picked wins, you get the amount of points you bet on them. If they lose, you lose the amount of points you bet. Thus, if you are absolutely certain that Alabama will beat Texas, then you’d pick Alabama and bet 5 on them. Conversely, if you have no idea about who will win between Marshall and Ohio, then you’d pick one of the two at random and bet only 1 point on it. And if you’re certainty for a game falls between those two extremes you can bet 2, 3, or 4.
Easy enough? Everyone understand? Isn’t this more just and fair than the actual BCS itself?
Jeff is once again setting up the Xcel spreadsheet and it will count up all the points you got for correct picks and all points you lost for incorrect ones and whoever has the most points wins the bowl picks. If you played picks during the regular season we’ll add your bowl score to your regular season score and see who the overall winner was (did I mention I won the regular season picks?).
Ok, so here are the bowls organized in the following format: Bowl name: team 1 v team 2 (location and date). Also if you check the comment section you can see some of my comments about the bowl games (some insightful, some not) including what I think to be the best 10 games. Enough already, here’s the bowl games:
New Mexico: Fresno St v Wyoming (Albuquerque, NM 12/19)
St Petersburg: UCF v Rutgers (St Petersburg, FL 12/19)
New Orleans: Southern Miss v Middle Tennessee (New Orleans, LA 12/20)
Las Vegas: Oregon St v BYU (Las Vegas, NV 12/22)
Poinsettia: Utah v Cal (San Diego, CA 12/23)
Hawaii: Nevada v SMU (Hawaii 12/24)
?Little Ceasars?: Marshall v Ohio (Detroit, MI 12/26)
Meineke Car Care: Pitt v unc-chapel hill (Charlotte, NC 12/26)
Emerald: BC v USC (San Francisco, CA 12/26)
Music City: Kentucky v Clemson (Nashville, TN 12/27)
Independence: Texas A&M v Georgia (Shreveport, LA 12/28)
Eagle Bank: Army/UCLA v Temple (Washington, DC 12/29)
Champ Sports: Miami v Wisconsin (Orlando, FL 12/29)
Humanitarian: Bowling Green v Idaho (Boise, Idaho 12/30)
Holiday: Arizona v Nebraska (San Diego, CA 12/30)
Armed Forces: Houston v Air Force (Fort Worth, TX 12/31)
Sun: Oklahoma v Stanford (El Paso, TX 12/31)
Texas: Navy v Missouri (Houston, TX 12/31)
Insight: Minnesota v Iowa St (Tempe, AZ 12/31)
Peach: Virginia Tech v Tennessee (Atlanta, GA 12/31)
Outback: Northwestern v Auburn (Tampa, FL 1/1)
Capital One: Penn St v LSU (Orlando, FL 1/1)
Gator: West Virginia v Florida St (Jacksonville, FL 1/1)
Rose: Ohio St v Oregon (Pasadena, CA 1/1)
Sugar: Florida v Cincinnati (New Orleans, LA 1/1)
International: South Florida v Northern Illinois (Toronto, Canada? 1/2)
Papa John: South Carolina v Connecticut (Birmingham, AL 1/2)
Cotton: Oklahoma St v Ole Miss (Dallas, TX 1/2)
Liberty: Arkansas v East Carolina (Memphis, TN 1/2)
Alamo: Michigan St v Texas Tech (San Antonio, TX 1/2)
Fiesta: TCU v Boise St (Phoenix, AZ 1/4)
Orange: Georgia Tech v Iowa (Miami, FL 1/5)
GMAC: Central Michigan v Troy (Mobile, AL 1/6)
$$$ bowl that can no longer be legally called “Championship” thanks to Congress (hey, they did something right) because it is all a giant fraud that lines the pockets of wealthy college presidents and bowl organizers and giant corporate sponsors while exploiting the free labor of college athletes and robbing the general public of a legitimate playoff: Alabama v Texas (Pasadena, CA 1/7)