OK, first an update on the records. In week 13 I went 8-8 and Al went 9-7. In week 14 I had a great week and went 10-5 and Al went 8-7. However, I gave it all back in week 15 where I just stunk up the joint and went a woeful 4-12, while Al went 8-8. 4-12 is vile. The upshot of all this is that I\u2019m 109-93-7 and Al is now 108-93-8. Yikes! Talk about it coming down to the wire…<\/p>\n
And now the bowls. I watched less college football than usual this year so I feel like I\u2019m working without a net here. I think after the beating I took in week 15 now I\u2019m petrified. This can\u2019t be good…<\/p>\n
12\/20, Poinsettia: Navy vs. Utah(-7.5) 12\/21, New Orleans: Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic(-2.5)<\/em> 12\/22, Papajohns.com: Southern Miss vs. Cincinnati(-11)<\/em> 12\/22, New Mexico: Nevada vs. New Mexico(-3)<\/em> 12\/22, Las Vegas: UCLA vs. BYU(-5)<\/em> 12\/23, Hawaii: East Carolina vs. Boise State(-10.5)<\/em> 12\/26, Motor City: Central Michigan vs. Purdue(-8.5)<\/em> 12\/27, Holiday: Arizona State vs. Texas(-2.5)<\/em> 12\/28, Champs Sports: Michigan State vs. Boston College(-3.5) 12\/28, Texas, Houston vs. TCU(-3.5)<\/em> 12\/28, Emerald: Maryland vs. Oregon State(-5)<\/em> 12\/29, Meineke Car Care, UConn vs. Wake Forest(-2.5)<\/em> 12\/29, Liberty: Mississippi State vs. University of Central Florida(-3)<\/em> 12\/29, Alamo: Texas A&M vs. Penn State(-5.5)<\/em> 12\/30, Independence: Colorado vs. Alabama(-3.5)<\/em> I\u2019m not doing the New Year\u2019s Eve bowls yet, in part because we have no idea yet whether Florida State will even have enough guys eligible to field a team…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, first an update on the records. In week 13 I went 8-8 and Al went 9-7. In week 14 I had a great week and went 10-5 and Al went 8-7. However, I gave it all back in week 15 where I just stunk up the joint and went a woeful 4-12, while Al … Continue reading Bowls Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>I have no idea how good or bad Utah is, but I know one thing: Navy blows. Anyone who had that much trouble with Notre Dame is bad, really bad. Utah covers.<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t especially like either team here, but my coin insists that Memphis has this one.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019d like to pick against the Bearcats here, I really would, but I don\u2019t see it happening. Oh, and Southern Miss is C-USA, right? Gotta pick against \u2018em then.<\/p>\n
\nHome game for the Lobos, where they are 5-1 this year. I think I\u2019ll give the points.<\/p>\n
\nInteresting game, as it\u2019s a rematch of a regular-season game which UCLA won. But UCLA went in the tank and BYU got hot. UCLA\u2019s coach got canned and BYU ended the season ranked, I think. I have to believe BYU is better and covers this.<\/p>\n
\nA big spread, which Boise will probably double up on. They\u2019re actually decent, and ECU… isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m not convinced Purdue will win this game at all, much less cover that kind of spread. I\u2019m taking the points.<\/p>\n
\nThe wrong team is favored here; Texas isn\u2019t very good this year.<\/p>\n
\nOnly three and a half? I really disliked BC this year and was planning to pick against them, but Michigan State isn\u2019t any good, either, and I was thinking the spread here would be like 7 and I could pick against BC. But not with only 3.5. BC.<\/p>\n
\nAgain, I\u2019m surprised this spread isn\u2019t bigger. TCU is just better, end of story.<\/p>\n
\nThe Beavers got jobbed ending up in this crappy bowl. And actually I\u2019m kind of surprised that Maryland made it into a bowl game at all. I don\u2019t see the Terps with much of a chance in this one.<\/p>\n
\nUConn has actually played pretty well this year, I think, and I heard nothing about Wake, so I\u2019m going to take the points and hope really hard that the ACC really is as bad as I think this year.<\/p>\n
\nHey, look, George O\u2019Leary is back in a bowl! And, actually, i think they\u2019ll win and cover, that RB they have is supposed to be the real deal.<\/p>\n
\nThis is essentially going to be a home game for the Aggies, though Penn State does travel well. Both of these teams were money at home this year but blew chunks on the road. I dunno, this just feels like too many points…<\/p>\n
\nMan, this is the bowl of suck. I mean, yeah, SEC vs. Big XII and everything, but these were both 6-6 teams. And you simply cannot believe how even these teams are, check out the bar graphs here<\/a>. That\u2019s a coin flip to me, I\u2019m taking the points.<\/p>\n