New Year's Eve 5 Spot

Meineke : Northwestern vs Texas A&M
The 'Cats are a 10 point dog against A&M.  I don't have enought faith to take 'em straight up, but I'll take 'em with the points and hope they snap the bowl losing streak with a surprise and a big game from Kain Colter.
NU +10
UPDATE I: I can't even watch my own team.  Angst...and they're about to blow my cover.   AAARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!
UPDATE II: GOD
UPDATE III: DAMN
UPDATE IV: IT
UPDATE V: i am spent...a fu$%#ing field goal with 30 seconds left...

Sun : Georgia Tech vs Utah
GT is 7-5, Utah is 8-4.  Utah is getting 2 1/2, and I'm taking it.
Utah +2 1/2
UPDATE : Utah comes from behind to win OT.

Liberty Bowl : Cincinatti vs Vanderbilt
Cincinatti gets no respect.  They're 9-3, Vandy is 6-6.  I think that's a good deal.
Cincinatti +1 1/2
UPDATE I : more excitement in five minutes here than all afternoon with IL:UCLA
UPDATE II : Munchie Legaux is warming up!
UPDATE III : Cincinnatti 31, Vanderbilt 24

Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Illinois and UCLA
This is the "We Fired Our Coaches Bowl".  Wonder if this has ever happened before, both teams in a bowl game without their head coaches.  The Illini won their first six, lost their next six, that cooked the Zook.  UCLA was 6-6 and defaulted into the PAC 12 championship game because USC is in jail.  Oregon beat 'em, so UCLA comes in with a 6-7 mark.  Illinois lost their lead running back for this game, ack.  I think the two teams are going to go wild on offense.
OVER 47
UPDATE : going wild for these two teams means getting 2 consecutive first downs.  This game stinks.
UPDATE : 34 points, silly me, thinking these two would be interesting.

Chick Fil A : Virginia and Auburn
I'm tired.  I'll take a position before kickoff.
UPDATE I: Auburn is the defending national champion.  Their coach is 8-0 in bowl games. They're a 3 point favorite.  Tonight, I am going with Virginia to upset them. BTW, did you know that this used to the Peach Bowl?  Now it's the Deep Fried Love Affair Bowl , yes, Doc?
VA +3
UPDATE I : I am going to need therapy.  Auburn is destroying Virginia. 
UPDATE II : Disaster, 43-24.  I'm taking tomorrow off : )

4 More

11 a.m. Armed Forces Bowl from Dallas, Tulsa and BYU
Tulsa is a 1 point favorite.  I can't tell the two apart, so I've gone OVER 56.

UPDATE I: Call this the Boring Bowl.  I've been watching American Pickers on TNT instead of this snoozer.  It's going to be a loser for us, too, with two offenses that are mind numbing slow..

2:30 p.m. Rutgers and Iowa State @ Yankee Stadium, the Pinstripe Bowl
Rutgers is 8-4, Iowa State 6-6.  I like Iowa State (they beat Iowa, that makes them likable for the season), but this is a home game for Rutgers. Rutgers -1.

UPDATE: We went to the movies and saw Hugo (very good, btw) while Rutgers paid off.

5:30 p.m. Music City Bowl in Nashville, Mississippi State v Wake Forest
I got cross-eyed studying stats.  I don't know.  They both have messed up offensive units, so I'm giving it a go with UNDER 48.

UPDATE: Total 40, winner.  Ever been to Nashville?  Great place to spend a couple days.

Late game, the Insight Bowl, Iowa and Oklahoma
Oklahoma has been sliding throughout the season, their great expectations cascading to a smoldering heap.  Iowa has had its typical roller coaster season, with the cherry on top being the annual "who's the character casualty" contest.  This year's winner: star running back Marcus Coker, booted from the team for the bowl game for an undisclosed sin.  I'm not going to even attempt a witty, speculative insult. Coach Ferentz leads the civilized world in bust-out, screwed-up, kicked off the team and/or sent to jail young men parading as student athletes, and it's not funny.  Of course, I'm not an Iowa alum, so other than righteous indignation, I don't really give a rat's arse.

Enough from the pulpit.  The spread is 13 1/2.  I think Iowa will get inside the spread.  Iowa +13 1/2.

UPADATE: after 58 3/4 minutes, we were covered.  At the end, we were not.

13, 14 : Champs, Alamo

Champs : FSU   v   USB under 46
                                UPDATE -------> 32 Total, Winner!


Alamo: Washington v Baylor -9 1/2

UPDATE I: Baylor has no defense, we're going to lose what I thought
                    to be a sure thing.
UPDATE II: 67-56, we get a win from a game that looked like a
                     touch football contest--after I'd written this one off
UPDATE III: I parlayed the two games today, so I made back some money


No long write ups. 

No big analysis. 

Five minutes with the numbers, those are my picks.  Can't do much worse than I've done so far.