College Bowl Prediction Thread

[blindside]

0-4. All were surprises to an extent. I wasn't too sure about Northwestern but being a Big 10 guy I had to go with Minnesota and NW. SC really blew it. I can't even begin to understand Miami though.

 

[Azale]

Colorado just plain sucks, don't try to cover it up.

Ill agree with you there, about midway through the season they just started playing incredibly poorly. But I was saying the Big 12 is a little underrated coming into bowl season, its not great but its not like these SEC/ACC/Big 10 teams are going to steamroll them like it seemed so many people thought...

Next year the Big 12 should be back. Nebraska is actually playing great offense right now under Callahan, Kansas' defense has steadily improved to where its now a top defense in the country, Iowa State should be better under third year QB Brent Meyer. Kansas State had a dissapointing year but should rebound, I think they were starting a freshman QB this year.

Texas is still gaining top recruits and Young will probably comeback. Oklahoma's Rhett Bomar threw 8 TD/1 INT in the latter half of the season add in Peterson, plus you know OU can recruit. Texas Tech is Texas Tech. Texas A&M is still recruiting well, maybe next year they can put it together. Oklahoma State is coached by one of the youngest coaches in the country, they should rebound. Even Baylor has improved.

The only teams I see mightily struggling next year would be Colorado, because Dan Hawkins is going to be injecting something completely different into that program. He is also going to figure out how messed up it really was. Missouri's biggest highlight in Brad Smith's time there is probably that Independance Bowl win...if thats the best Mizzou can do with thier best QB ever and one of the best dual threat QB's ever, then they need to fire everyone on the coaching staff. Thier not going to do that, so thier going to struggle.

btw, Ive gone 1-6 in my picks since the Alamo Bowl *sigh*

 

[LLXerxes]

The world has gone crazy!

2-5 since the Alamo Bowl. God I really suck at this.

 

[Azale]

Wow, I went 1-3 today...NC State saved me from total humiliation

 

[pawpaw]

9 wins
11 loses

 

[LLXerxes]

12-8
What an unpredictable bowl season... I'm at 60% ¬¬

 

[pawpaw]

What an unpredictable bowl season...

We follow the " Big " names all season but it's hard to figure match ups between 4th place teams

 

[warmwaffles]

I am picking the Longhorns to win the Rose Bowl..

I HATE the longhorns but I REALLY Hate USC...plus I go for underdogs in Bowl Games just cuz its exciting to watch most times

 

[ummmm........]

Updated rankings:

AlCosta15 13-7
ummmm........ 13-7
shortguy 12-8
LLXerxes 12-8
Fetus4188 11-9
pawpaw 9-11
blindside 9-11
Azale 9-11
MattBrown 8-12

So we're all still fairly tightly grouped . . .

And the conferences:

Pac-10 3-1
ACC 4-2
Big 12 4-2
C-USA 3-3
MAC 1-1
Mountain West 2-2
SEC 1-1
WAC 1-2
Big East 0-2
Big Ten 0-3
Sunbelt 0-1

 

[Moss]

hmm...impressive...Captain Spaulding ain't doing so bad.

 

[LLXerxes]

Big10 0-4

 

[Fetus4188]

Go Pac!

 

[ummmm........]

Through the Capital One:

AlCosta15 16-8
ummmm........ 16-8
LLXerxes 15-9
Fetus4188 14-10
shortguy 13-11
pawpaw 11-13
Azale 11-13
blindside 10-14
MattBrown 10-13


Pac-10 3-1
ACC 5-2
SEC 3-2
Big 12 4-3
C-USA 3-3
MAC 1-1
Mountain West 2-2
WAC 1-2
Big Ten 1-4
Big East 0-3
Sunbelt 0-1

 

[LLXerxes]

Plz start the fscking Fiesta Bowl...

 

[ummmm........]

Meh. It'll start when it starts. Only four games left, may as well savor every moment . . .

 

[Red Door]

I'm doing surprisinly well.

 

[ummmm........]

.666

So not so much that we're doing surprisingly well, just that everyone is doing rather badly . . .

And one of us will be alone in the lead after this game . . .

 

[shortguy]

It's surprising. The less I know about the teams, the better I do. It reminds me of when I was 12, kicking butt in my older brother's NCAA tournament contests despite not really knowing that much about college basketball. My performance in such things has steadily declined since.

 

[ummmm........]

Urk. If ND doesn't pull this out, the best I can do is a tie with AlCosta15 . . .

Of course, I'm sure pawpaw still cares about this game a little bit more than I do . . .

 

[pawpaw]

Of course, I'm sure pawpaw still cares about this game a little bit more than I do . . .

The non fumble for a touchdown called back was a dagger in the heart