12.30.2006: My Bowl Picks
My pics in bold. Winner underlined. Score in parentheses:
Record: 21-11 (.656)
Analysis: I shot off to a good start, picking six of the first eight, but then I started to drop a few. I'm not sure if I can be really faulted for picking Rice over Troy in the Whogivesafuck Bowl. Clemson losing was a surprise, and actually so was Va Tech (Tech was winning when I fell asleep, and who would have thunk it). And I was on pins at the end of the BC game, and got pretty lucky there. Towards the end of the season I hit 7 of the last 10, including correctly picking Florida to upset Ohio State.
Overall, I think I overestimated the SEC this year. Tenessee let me down. So did Arkansas, for whom I was expecting great things. Wisconsin was able to contain McFadden; I thought such a powerful SEC offense would pierce a Big 10 defense, just as Auburn was able to win by just keeping it on the ground.
The Big East remained undefeated in their bowls. I'm happy that of all of the commentators saying how weak the Big East is this year were proven wrong. WVU got back from behind Georgia Tech, in a close call, and the Cinncinati game was close--but the margin of victory betwen USF, Rutgers and Louisville was impressive--the three outscoring their opponents 85-30 combined.
Picking Florida was a bit of a lark, as I pretty much just went all-SEC straight down. But with USC soundly thumping Michigan (finally I get to stop hearing Wolverine's fans bitching that they got robbed of the national title) and FLorida making light work of Ohio State, who would have thought that USC-Florida should have been the matchup, not Ohio State Mighigan (again).
| San Diego County Credit Union | #24 TCU (37) | Northern Illinois (7) |
| Pioneer Pure Vision Las Vegas | #20 Brigham Young (38) | Oregon (8) |
| R&L Carriers New Orleans | Rice (17) | Troy (41) |
| Papajohns.com | South Florida (24) | East Carolina (7) |
| New Mexico | New Mexico (12) | San Jose State (20) |
| Bell Helicopter Armed Forces | Tulsa (13) | Utah (25) |
| Sheraton Hawai | Arizona State (24) | Hawaii (41) |
| Motor City | Middle Tennessee St (14) | Central Michigan (31) |
| Emerald | Florida State (44) | UCLA (27) |
| PetroSun Independence | Oklahoma State (34) | Alabama (31) |
| Pacific Life Holiday | #19 California (45) | #21 Texas A&M (10) |
| Texas | #17 Rutgers (37) | Kansas State (10) |
| Gaylord Hotels Music City | Clemson (20) | Kentucky 28 |
| Brut Sun | #25 Oregon State (39) | Missouri (38) |
| Autozone Liberty | Houston (36) | South Carolina (44) |
| Insight | Texas Tech (44) | Minnesota (41) |
| Champs Sports | Purdue (7) | Maryland (24) |
| Meineke Car Care | Navy (24) | #23 Boston College (25) |
| Alamo | #16 Texas (26) | Iowa (24) |
| Chick-fil-A | Georgia (31) | #14 Virginia Tech (24) |
| MPC Computers | Miami (21) | Nevada (20) |
| Outback | #18 Tennessee (10) | Penn State (20) |
| AT&T Cotton | #10 Auburn (17) | #22 Nebraska (14) |
| Toyota Gator | #12 West Virginia (38) | #25 Georgia Tech (35) |
| Capital One | #13 Arkansas (14) | #5 Wisconsin (17) |
| Rose | #7 USC (32) | #3 Michigan (18) |
| Tostitos Fiesta | #9 Boise State (43) | #8 Oklahoma (42) |
| FedEx Orange | #6 Louisville (24) | #15 Wake Forest (13) |
| Allstate Sugar | #11 Notre Dame (14) | #4 LSU (41) |
| International | Cincinnati (27) | Western Michigan (24) |
| GMAC | Ohio (7) | So. Mississippi (28) |
| BCS Championship | #2 Florida (41) | #1 Ohio State (14) |
Record: 21-11 (.656)
Analysis: I shot off to a good start, picking six of the first eight, but then I started to drop a few. I'm not sure if I can be really faulted for picking Rice over Troy in the Whogivesafuck Bowl. Clemson losing was a surprise, and actually so was Va Tech (Tech was winning when I fell asleep, and who would have thunk it). And I was on pins at the end of the BC game, and got pretty lucky there. Towards the end of the season I hit 7 of the last 10, including correctly picking Florida to upset Ohio State.
Overall, I think I overestimated the SEC this year. Tenessee let me down. So did Arkansas, for whom I was expecting great things. Wisconsin was able to contain McFadden; I thought such a powerful SEC offense would pierce a Big 10 defense, just as Auburn was able to win by just keeping it on the ground.
The Big East remained undefeated in their bowls. I'm happy that of all of the commentators saying how weak the Big East is this year were proven wrong. WVU got back from behind Georgia Tech, in a close call, and the Cinncinati game was close--but the margin of victory betwen USF, Rutgers and Louisville was impressive--the three outscoring their opponents 85-30 combined.
Picking Florida was a bit of a lark, as I pretty much just went all-SEC straight down. But with USC soundly thumping Michigan (finally I get to stop hearing Wolverine's fans bitching that they got robbed of the national title) and FLorida making light work of Ohio State, who would have thought that USC-Florida should have been the matchup, not Ohio State Mighigan (again).
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posted by faith on 12.30.06 @ 09:41 pm EST
