College Bowl Crapshoot: Have YOU Seen This Movie Before?
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On December 19th we will be subject to the annual forcefeeding of College Football Bowl games otherwise called ‘Bowl Season’. Once a year, the Middle Tennessee States and Southern Methodist Universities of the world will grab your (momentary) attention as you compare their results to what you had them doing in your office pool.
The last bowl season of the decade has some great matchups in both BCS and non-BCS games.
With so many Bowl Games on tap, and so many fine matchups that may outshine The BCS Bowl Games come January, this ‘Crapshoot’ will look to be the most entertaining Crapshoot ever.
HERE’S WHAT I KNOW IS GOING TO HAPPEN
I KNOW The Pac-10 will shine this bowl season. College Football is such a southern-dominated sport, that as The SEC begins to lose its swag the resurgence of The Pac-10 this season has become the best kept secret in college football. That secret will explode before high definition television sets in living rooms across America this season as The Pac-10, in a year that saw The Arizonas and Stanfords of the year stick it to perennial power USC, will obtain a winning record this Bowl Season.
I KNOW The Big-10 will go down in flames. The Big-10 is a traditionally slow, boring, and unathletic conference that gets rocked every time it sets a foot out of conference.
The Big 10 has struggled in recent years as their teams with those pedestrian and archaic schemes on both sides of the ball are easily exposed by programs with superior athletic teams with more imaginative offensive systems. Here’s a stat designed to kill: Of the 7 Big-10 teams participating in bowl games this season, 5 of these teams are playing opponents with athletic quarterbacks, thus creating horrible mathcups. We see The Big-10 struggling in their bowl games once again this season as this conference suffers a losing record in their 7 contests.
HERE’S WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN
I THINK FLORIDA (-10) will cover against Cincinnati. With the most important player in College set to leave, and a talented Florida team playing The Cincinnati Bearcats without their head coach, this game has blowout potential.
While I like The Bearcats to hang around, Cincinnati will not have the defense to be able to withstand the blows they are going to take from an Urban Meyer-coached team with so much time to prepare. Tim Tebow will go out on a high note and Florida will win big. I think.
I THINK USC (-9) shows up for their bowl game. It’s not The Rose Bowl, but USC playing out of conference with 3 weeks to prepare for an ACC team makes me more inclined to think that The Trojans won’t lay an egg in The Emerald Bowl. Many people have circled this game as an upset because of USC’s disappointing 2009 campaign, but you have to remember that The Pac-10 as a conference got stronger this year and USC was in somewhat of a rebuilding year with 0 All-Americans and a freshman quarterback.
The ACC has been downright terrible this year, and even if Boston College was the cream of The ACC crop, which they are not, I wouldn’t feel comfortable with B.C. cashing a ticket against Sam Houston State.
HERE’S WHAT I’M PROBABLY WRONG ABOUT
I’m probably WRONG, but Bobby Bowden will win his final bowl game. Everything about this game screams shootout, however with one of the greatest coaches in college football history set to be unceremoniously thrown out of his office hanging them up, the Seminoles will load up on pride looking to give Bowden a sendoff with whatever dignity they can scrape off of the turf.
This is strictly about intangibles as FSU is a very good matchup for a potent West Virginia offense that very may well pick the fighting Bowdens apart. But ya just gotta believe, don’t you?
I’m probably WRONG, but Stanford will win outright against Oklahoma. I always lean towards teams with ‘closers’ or All-American caliber players who know how to, how do they say, get it done. Toby Gerhart is going to be 225 pounds of problem for an Oklahoma Sooners squad who has been quite good against the run.
The bad news for the Sooners is that there really is no run defense for a guy who breaks so many tackles, and although Oklahoma has been somewhat resurgent under Landry Jones at QB, OU in a bowl game usually spells doom. I would feel great about this pick if Andrew Luck had not been ruled out, but I still like The Cardinal in this one.
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