Update: Winners updated. Records in future post.
The holidays have put us a little behind getting our college bowl picks up before the first few games, but hopefully, you had a pretty good idea who was going to win the Papajohns.com Bowl.
Check out our picks and see who’s right more often than anyone else–Yup, me. I’ll be facing off against a little known college football aficionado, Robert. Our picks are in chronological order, and if he is right more than me, we may just have to make him contribue to FantasyFootballFools.com a little more.
Cameron weighs in on our post-Christmas games for some insight from a true college football follower.
San Diego County Credit Union
WINNER: UTAH
- Jacob: Utah
- Robert: Utah
R+L Carriers New Orleans
WINNER: FLORIDA ATLANTIC
- Jacob: Memphis
- Robert: Florida Atlantic
Papajohns.com
WINNER: CINCINNATI
- Jacob: Southern Mississippi
- Robert: Cincinnati
New Mexico
WINNER: NEW MEXICO
- Jacob: New Mexico (I mean, it’s there bowl and all)
- Robert: New Mexico
Pioneer Las Vegas
WINNER: BYU
- Jacob: BYU
- Robert: BYU
Sheraton Hawaii
WINNER: EAST CAROLINA (What happened in this close one?)
- Jacob: Boise State
- Robert: Boise State
Now Cameron joins in for the rest of the picks…
Motor City
WINNER: PURDUE (That was close)
- Jacob: Purdue
- Robert: Purdue
- Cameron: Purdue (Mainly because they are not a directional Michigan school)
Pacific Life Holiday
WINNER: TEXAS
- Jacob: Texas (Hook ’em)
- Robert: Texas
- Cameron: Texas (Please God)
(Disclaimer: All three of us are Longhorn alums)
Champs Sports
WINNER: BOSTON COLLEGE
- Jacob: Boston College
- Robert: Boston College
- Cameron: Michigan St. (Goin out on a limb. BC lost 3 of their last 5 games)
Texas
WINNER: TCU
- Jacob: TCU (They’re from Texas)
- Robert: Houston
- Cameron: TCU (Houston has lost 7 straight to TCU and their last 8 bowl games)
Emerald
WINNER: OREGON STATE
- Jacob: Maryland
- Robert: Maryland
- Cameron: Oregon State (Coming off a win against in-state rival Oregon)
Meineke Car Care
WINNER: WAKE FOREST
- Jacob: Wake Forest (When in doubt, don’t doubt the Wake)
- Robert: Connecticut
- Cameron: Connecticut (A team I have been high on all season)
AutoZone Liberty
WINNER: MISSISSIPPI STATE
- Jacob: UCF
- Robert: Mississippi State
- Cameron: UCF (With Heisman snub Kevin Smith at the helm, they will run and run)
Valero Alamo
WINNER: PENN STATE
- Jacob: Penn State
- Robert: Penn State
- Cameron: Penn State (After a big win against Texas last year, A&M came out flat. Expect the same)
PetroSun Independence
WINNER: ALABAMA
- Jacob: Colorado
- Robert: Alabama
- Cameron: Colorado (Alabama coming in on a 4-game losing streak)
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
WINNER: CALIFORNIA
- Jacob: Air Force
- Robert: Air Force
- Cameron: Air Force (Cal coming in losing 6 of their last 7)
Roady’s Humanitarian
WINNER: FRESNO STATE
- Jacob: Georgia Tech
- Robert: Georgia Tech
- Cameron: Georgia Tech (Just because)
Brut Sun
WINNER: OREGON (Apparently, Oregon is something without Dixon)
- Jacob: South Florida
- Robert: South Florida
- Cameron: South Florida (Oregon is nothing without Dixon; plus, they have a Leaf brother playing QB)
Gaylord Hotels Music City
WINNER: KENTUCKY
- Jacob: Kentucky
- Robert: Kentucky
- Cameron: Kentucky (Because they don’t cheat and lose half of their team)
Insight
WINNER: OKLAHOMA STATE
- Jacob: Oklahoma State
- Robert: Oklahoma State
- Cameron: Indiana (Never know which OK State team is going to show up)
Chick-fil-A
WINNER: AUBURN
- Jacob: Clemson
- Robert: Auburn
- Cameron: Clemson (Great one two punch at RB with Davis and Spiller)
Outback
WINNER: TENNESSEE
- Jacob: Tennessee
- Robert: Wisconsin
- Cameron: Tennessee (PJ Hill might not play for Wisconsin, which would mean trouble)
AT&T Cotton
WINNER: MISSOURI
- Jacob: Missouri
- Robert: Missouri
- Cameron: Arkansas (Missouri may be a little flat after the Big XII championship loss and may not have the defense to stop McFadden and Jones)
Konica Minolta Gator
WINNER: TEXAS TECH
- Jacob: Texas Tech (I’m a Big 12 man)
- Robert: Texas Tech
- Cameron: Virginia (UV actually has the kind of defense that can hurry up Harrell and knock him down, especially with DE Chris Long)
Capital One
WINNER: MICHIGAN (Never bet against a team devoted to sending a great coach off right)
- Jacob: Florida
- Robert: Florida
- Cameron: Florida (Florida played a way tougher schedule than Michigan, and it will show)
Rose Bowl Presented by Citi–they paid us to say that
WINNER: USC (Illinois should have never been in a bowl game. They certainly weren’t in this one.)
- Jacob: USC
- Robert: USC
- Cameron: USC (I will be pulling for Illinois, but their athletes can’t match up to USC)
Allstate Sugar
WINNER: GEORGIA (I guess he is a system QB and/or the Hawaii linemen or worthless sacks of fatty meat.)
- Jacob: Hawaii (I don’t think he’s just a system QB)
- Robert: Georgia
- Cameron: Georgia (I see this being a very close game with Georgia coming out on top because of their running game)
Tostitos Fiesta
WINNER: WEST VIRGINIA (Ouch, Stoops. Has anyone told the OU players lately that the season isn’t over after the Big 12 Championship?)
- Jacob: Oklahoma
- Robert: Oklahoma
- Cameron: Oklahoma (Don’t expect OU to be caught napping again)
FedEx Orange
WINNER: KANSAS ( It was a clutch victory for Kansas and for my predictions!)
- Jacob: Kansas
- Robert: Virginia Tech
- Cameron: Virginia Tech (Their D will hit Kansas in the mouth)
International
WINNER: RUTGERS (Was there any doubt? Ball State?)
- Jacob: Rutgers
- Robert: Rutgers
- Cameron: Rutgers (Who cares?)
GMAC
WINNER: TULSA (I’m sorry if you watched this game. REALLY sorry.)
- Jacob: Tulsa
- Robert: Tulsa
- Cameron: Tulsa (I love their offense, especially with Paul Smith running the show)
Allstate BCS Championship Game
WINNER: LSU (Can we just put OU and OSU in the same boat and say, “Stop trying.”)
- Jacob: LSU
- Robert: LSU
- Cameron: Ohio State (Because the BCS wouldn’t allow a two-loss champion, would it?)
Check future post for a complete summary of how the three of us came out on this bowl season.
