Yahoo College Bowl Pick-em

[Guynemer]

Come on guys, let's concentrate on what's really important here. Congrats to Guynemer on an amazing comeback and being the only person in the Pick-Em to crack 400 points.

Boosh, and/or ka-kow.


[/Frisky Dingo]


Also, just for the record, I went 5-for-5 in the BCS bowls.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Dude, you were on fire the entire second half of the bowl season. You should figure out your successful pick percentage since Dec. 31st, so you can gloat.

[Guynemer]

Here's the thing about this season--there are four teams that could make a legit claim to #1, and you could justify any of them.

Let's rank those four with these criteria:

Best Win (by opponent)
1. Florida
1. Texas
3. Utah
4. USC

Best Loss (by opponent)
1. Utah
2. Florida
3. Texas
4. USC

Best Conference
1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Utah
4. USC

Best Non-Conference Schedule
1. Florida
2. USC
3. Utah
4. Texas

Most Impressive Bowl Performance
1. USC
2. Utah
3. Florida
4. Texas


By those criteria, looks like Florida is a worthy #1, but I'm sticking with

1. Utah
2. Florida
3. USC
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma
6. Alabama
7. TCU
8. Penn State
9. Boise State
10. Oregon
11. Ohio State
12. Georgia
13. Mississippi
14. Texas Tech
15. Oklahoma State
16. Oregon State
17. Missouri
18. Iowa
19. Virginia Tech
20. Florida State
21. BYU
22. Cincinnati
23. Tulsa
24. Cal
25. Georgia Tech



You'll note nary an ACC team to be seen until #19, nor a Big East team til #22.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Texas doesn't have the best loss (after Utah, of course)?

[Guynemer]

Dude, you were on fire the entire second half of the bowl season. You should figure out your successful pick percentage since Dec. 31st, so you can gloat.

From Dec. 31st on, I went 13-4 (!). My wrong picks were the Cotton Bowl (big 33 points there, ouch), Armed Forces Bowl (another big one, 27 points), Music City Bowl (23 points), and Liberty Bowl (16 points). So, as good as I did, it could've been way better.

My underdog winners were in the Orange (32), Gator (24), Sugar (21), and Chick-Fil-A (20). Toss in December 30th, and I also got underdog wins in the Holiday (19) and Humanitarian (15).


Bow to my College Football prognostication abilities!

[Guynemer]

Texas doesn't have the best loss (after Utah, of course)?

Well, I see what you are saying. By the events of the loss itself, yeah. But by opponent, they would be #3 (my mistake, USC would be #4).

[Naked Gents Rut]

So, as good as I did, it could've been way better.

It's hard to do better than guessing correctly 75% of the time.

But by opponent, they would be #3

You really think a loss to Ole Miss is better than a loss to Texas Tech? I think you're reading too much into the Cotton Bowl.

[Guynemer]

I also, inexplicably, dropped by Sugar Bowl confidence points just before kickoff; it was somewhere in the low 30s. Apparently, my balls suddenly disappeared.

[Ming]

Both Ohio and Penn have excellent defenses... Texas looked average at best against Ohio... USC chewed up Penn's Defense. USC looked like the better team to me.

[Guynemer]

So, as good as I did, it could've been way better.

It's hard to do better than guessing correctly 75% of the time.

But by opponent, they would be #3

You really think a loss to Ole Miss is better than a loss to Texas Tech? I think you're reading too much into the Cotton Bowl.

...and I think you're not reading into it enough. But that's opinion, which is the crux of this whole problem to begin with. Major college football chooses its champion based on opinion, just like figure skating and gymnastics. I am not a fan of that.

[Naked Gents Rut]

People always read too much into bowl games, which are not generally indicative of which team was better during the regular season. In the case of the Cotton Bowl, it was clearly yet another case of a good team being shut out of the level of bowl game they thought they deserved and subsequently blowing a lower-tier bowl that they didn't want to be in. It's all about motivation.

[Guynemer]

Again, opinion.

The fact stands thusly: Ole Miss 47, Texas Tech 34.

How you and I interpret that fact is up to us. But championships should not be based on opinion.

[Naked Gents Rut]

The experts are on my side.

But championships should not be based on opinion.

Why not? It's more fun that way.

[Guynemer]

Again... that is, most decidedly, your opinion.

[-Jrabbit]

Congrats on winning the Bowl Pool, Guynemer.

Outstanding BCS predictions!