Peter’s Pack of Pickled Pigskin Picks- Bowl Edition
It’s bowl season. The time of year when 64 teams play meaningless games for bragging rights and bowls of cash for their football programs. At least now two games matter, and the winners of those go for the National Championship. So, pick your favorites of the most important bowls, or at least, the ones I think are the “classic” bowls I remember from years past. The tie breaker is the semi final game between Washington and Alabama. The team scores may be as far apart as the two schools are, but who knows? And there is a second tie breaker if needed: the National Championship game January 9. (If I were in charge, there wouldn’t be any college football in January at all.)
Remember to get your guesses in by Noon EST, on Friday, December 30.
Orange Bowl (Dec 30) #6 Michigan vs. #11 Florida State Sun Bowl (Dec 30) #18 Stanford vs. North Carolina Liberty Bowl (Dec 30) Georgia vs. TCU
Citrus Bowl (Dec 31) #20 LSU vs. #13 Louisville
Sugar Bowl (Jan 2) #14 Auburn vs. #7 Oklahoma Rose Bowl (Jan 2) #9 USC vs. #5 Penn State Cotton Bowl (Jan 2) #15 Western Michigan vs. #8 Wisconsin Outback Bowl (Jan 2) #17 Florida vs. Iowa
Semi Final: Fiesta Bowl (Dec 31) #3 Ohio State vs. #2 Clemson Tie Breaker: Semi-final: Peach bowl (Dec 31) #4 Washington vs. #1 Alabama 2nd Tie Breaker (If needed): National Championship Jan 9
Mis preferencias (en realidad, son nada más que adivinaciones):
Michigan – FSU has had trouble with some lesser teams than this.
Stanford – PAC 12 in this one over ACC
Georgia – Dawgs tear up lizards in reality.
LSU – Funny that Chas chose the ACC over SEC in this one.
Auburn – Tigers roar
USC – My preference is PAC 12 over B1G 10
Western Michigan – gotta go for the underdog, which is the only other undefeated team besides Alabama
Iowa – Love those Hawkeyes.
Clemson – More Tigers!
‘Bama 50-21 Though I like the PAC 12, Bama is a much better school than any of the West Coast teams.
Isn’t it amazing how many players will signal Touchdown, no completion, first down, our ball, etc. when they know it has no effect on the umpire/referee.
No, Mumsee, you haven’t won it. No one has yet, as there are still 4 games to play.
It looks like Ohio State has once again proven it is not championship material. A 31-0 loss in the semi-final shows that the system still has a long way to go before they get it right. I wonder if Penn State would have done better?
So it’s Clemson vs. Alabama for the National Championship game, again.
Please don’t suggest an 8 team playoff. Because that won’t work out for some people and they’ll demand 16 teams, then 32 on and on until those poor boys are still playing in June.
kbells- I have seen a suggestion for using the current bowl system for a 16 team playoff, with the first round being the bowls that normally get the mediocre 6-6 teams, then the remaining bowls being the rest of the rounds. As it is now, the only benefit for a 6-6 team to go to a bowl is money. I mean, who watches those games other than fans of those teams?
That’s still two very hard extra games for two teams that have most likely already been beat to death. Putting these college age boys through that just because grown fans can’t get the result they want is selfish.
Thank you all. In a year that was otherwise not so great, winning these polls was kind of a little high spot. 🙂 Now if Bama can snag another Championship.
Wandering Views 
Michigan
Stanford
Georgia
Louisville
Oklahoma
Penn State
Wisconsin
Florida
Ohio State
Washington 31-27
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1 Michigan
2 N. Carolina
3 Georgia
4 Louisville
5 Auburn
6 Penn State
7 Wisconsin
8 Florida
9 Ohio State
10 Bama 21 – Washington 14
My preference of SEC & Big 10 schools is just because I think they are better.
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No mention of the Potato Bowl? Go Vandals! Oh, never mind. They went.
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Michigan
Stanford
Georgia
LSU
Oklahoma
USC
Wisconsin
Florida
Ohio St.
BAMA 35-21
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Michigan
North Carolina
TCU
Louisville
Auburn
Penn St
Wisconsin
Florida
Ohio St
Alabama 35-15
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Mis preferencias (en realidad, son nada más que adivinaciones):
Michigan – FSU has had trouble with some lesser teams than this.
Stanford – PAC 12 in this one over ACC
Georgia – Dawgs tear up lizards in reality.
LSU – Funny that Chas chose the ACC over SEC in this one.
Auburn – Tigers roar
USC – My preference is PAC 12 over B1G 10
Western Michigan – gotta go for the underdog, which is the only other undefeated team besides Alabama
Iowa – Love those Hawkeyes.
Clemson – More Tigers!
‘Bama 50-21 Though I like the PAC 12, Bama is a much better school than any of the West Coast teams.
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:cey: Gamecocks fumble on their two yard line. George Rogers did that once.
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Did I win yet?
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Michigan
Stanford
Georgia
Louisville
Auburn
USC
Wisconsin
Florida
Clemson
‘Bama 37-17
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Isn’t it amazing how many players will signal Touchdown, no completion, first down, our ball, etc. when they know it has no effect on the umpire/referee.
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No, Mumsee, you haven’t won it. No one has yet, as there are still 4 games to play.
It looks like Ohio State has once again proven it is not championship material. A 31-0 loss in the semi-final shows that the system still has a long way to go before they get it right. I wonder if Penn State would have done better?
So it’s Clemson vs. Alabama for the National Championship game, again.
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Please don’t suggest an 8 team playoff. Because that won’t work out for some people and they’ll demand 16 teams, then 32 on and on until those poor boys are still playing in June.
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kbells- I have seen a suggestion for using the current bowl system for a 16 team playoff, with the first round being the bowls that normally get the mediocre 6-6 teams, then the remaining bowls being the rest of the rounds. As it is now, the only benefit for a 6-6 team to go to a bowl is money. I mean, who watches those games other than fans of those teams?
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That’s still two very hard extra games for two teams that have most likely already been beat to death. Putting these college age boys through that just because grown fans can’t get the result they want is selfish.
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So we go back to a 10 or 11 game season, instead of 12.
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And the winner is once again kbells. Here are the results:
kbells 8
Tychicus 7
I had 6
AJ 5
Chas 4
Mumsee 3
Game results:
FSU 33 Mich 32
Stanford 25 UNC 23
UGA 31 TCU 23
LSU 29 L’ville 9
OU 35 Auburn 19
USC 52 PSU 49
Wisc 24 WMU 16
Fla 30 Iowa 3
Clemson 31 OSU 0
Bama 24 Wash 7
See y’all next year!
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Congratulations, kbells!!!
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Well, you know what happened there? I asked my boys who was going to win each match and they let me down. Never ask for help.
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Thank you all. In a year that was otherwise not so great, winning these polls was kind of a little high spot. 🙂 Now if Bama can snag another Championship.
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