The college football bowl season begins tomorrow and I will once again be making my selections for every game against the spread. I went 21-13 against the spread last year in the bowl games and can only hope to duplicate that success this year. (Those picks pre-dated the beginning of the blog so you’ll just have to take my word for it!) If you are a betting man hopefully they can help you earn a little extra cash during the holiday season. For those wondering where my NFL picks are - I will have those up on the site sometime this weekend as some of the injury messes begin to clear up. I thought about doing a NFL Power Rankings column this week but figured that there was enough for readers to digest on the blog this week and we all kind of know where the pecking order in the NFL stands right now. We will do some more NFL talk next week as the playoff picture should become a little more clear after this weekend. On to the bowls…
Saturday, December 18th
New Mexico Bowl – Albuquerque, NM
BYU (-11) over UTEP – Two teams going in opposite directions and BYU has more talent to begin with.
uDrove Humanitarian Bowl – Boise, ID
Northern Illinois (-1.5) over Fresno State – I liked NIU originally before I even started doing research and liked them even more when I read this stat: Fresno St. under Pat Hill is 4-1 in bowl games against BCS conference teams and 0-5 in bowls against non-automatic qualifiers. This NIU team is good; just have to hope they have their heads on straight after a severely disappointing loss in the MAC Championship game and playing under an interim coaching staff.
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl – New Orleans, LA
Ohio (+3) over Troy – These teams are pretty even both talent wise and statistically but I lean towards Ohio whose run-oriented attack faces a Troy defense that has struggled to stop the run all season long. The three points doesn’t hurt either.
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