Game #11, The Military Bowl in DC has Toledo meeting the Air Force Academy. Short and sweet, here, I'm being a contrarian. Both teams score a lot, both teams have unimpressive defensive stats and the O/U has therefore been set at 70 1/2.
Big numbers like that mean that both teams have to keep throwing haymakers for sixty minutes...and landing their punches, i.e. there's gotta be a contest the whole time. If one team pulls away, the totals shrink.
I bought the under.
UPDATE
83. So much for that. Man the lifeboats.
Game #12 is the Holiday Bowl in Sandy Aygo. Cal going against Texas. Texas gave me fits this year. BTW, this game is the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, properly. Bridgepoint Education is a publicly traded company that operates Ashford University and University of the Rockies. That last sentence is a bit of information that leaves you no wiser for having read it, sorry. At this point in Capital One Bowl Week (I have been hypnotically programmed to refer to it as such, lest the omnipotent take away my football) they might call this the Who Really Gives a S%&t Bowl and it would not really matter to me.
Back at the game, Texas is a 4 point favorite. This is yet another pairing of 7-5 teams whose exploits throughout the season have been chronicled in mind numbing detail, hundreds of thousands of words heavily dosed with delusions of grandeur seasoning the storylines as the proprietors of the new fourth estate (click here) have attempted to justify our collective preoccupation with this pap.
I studied this match up a whole bunch, my record so far this bowl season sucks, and it came down to : I think that success in this game is more important to Texas than it is to Cal, so that's where I put the money.
UPDATE
21-10 winner winner chicken dinner!
Big numbers like that mean that both teams have to keep throwing haymakers for sixty minutes...and landing their punches, i.e. there's gotta be a contest the whole time. If one team pulls away, the totals shrink.
I bought the under.
UPDATE
83. So much for that. Man the lifeboats.
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| Bevo XIV, the mascot of the University of Texas. The next time you look scornfully at the cartoon figure running around on the sidelines for the U. of Anybody Else, you may wish to pause to recall that none of those brightly colored, cartoon faced pillows stuffed full with a spirited undergraduate student requires an entourage armed with shovels to walk behind him. Bevo is not housebroken, nor is he diapered, hence... I do not know if Bevo is going to the bowl game. I would guess yes, otherwise how can ESPN do the gratuitous close up of the cow while the announcers yabble some humorous and pithy cow joke intended to endear the cow to otherwise right minded viewers. I think Cal ought to psych out Bevo by having its mascot manning a Weber grill, cooking Bevo's relatives. |
Back at the game, Texas is a 4 point favorite. This is yet another pairing of 7-5 teams whose exploits throughout the season have been chronicled in mind numbing detail, hundreds of thousands of words heavily dosed with delusions of grandeur seasoning the storylines as the proprietors of the new fourth estate (click here) have attempted to justify our collective preoccupation with this pap.
I studied this match up a whole bunch, my record so far this bowl season sucks, and it came down to : I think that success in this game is more important to Texas than it is to Cal, so that's where I put the money.
UPDATE
21-10 winner winner chicken dinner!
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