Weekly Picks of the Week - Bowl Games Part Two

Picks in Bold

Rankings based on BCS Standings
All lines provided by Sportsbook.ag

Capital One Bowl
#7 Georgia Bulldogs v. #16 Nebraska Cornhuskers (+9)

Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando
Tue. Jan. 1
1:00
ABC

Outback Bowl
#10 South Carolina Gamecocks (-5.5) v. #18 Michigan Wolverines

Raymond James Stadium, Tampa
Tue. Jan. 1
1:00
ESPN

Rose Bowl
Wisconsin Badgers (+6) v. #6 Stanford Cardinal

Rose Bowl, Pasadena
Tue. Jan. 1
5:00
ESPN

Discover Orange Bowl
#15 Northern Illinois Huskies (+13.5) v. #12 Florida State Seminoles

Sun Life Stadium, Miami
Tue. Jan. 1
8:30
ESPN

Allstate Sugar Bowl
#21 Louisville Cardinals v. #3 Florida Gators (-14)

Superdome, New Orleans
Wed. Jan. 2
8:30
ESPN

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
#4 Oregon Ducks (-9) v. #5 Kansas State Wildcats

University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale
Thur. Jan. 3
8:30
ESPN

AT&T Cotton Bowl
#9 Texas A&M v. #11 Oklahoma Sooners (+3)

Cowboys Stadium, Arlington
Fri. Jan. 4
8:00
FOX

Discover BCS National Championship
#2 Alabama Crimson Tide v. #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (+9.5)

Sun Life Stadium, Miami
Mon. Jan. 7
8:30
ESPN

-2014 can't get here soon enough (that is if we didn't all perish last week like the Mayans said we would).  In 2014, Division 1-A (aka FBS) college football starts their four-team playoff and it's about damn time.  Now, while I think a four-team playoff is a step in the right direction, I find it funny that it is still really lacking compared to every other level of football in all of America.  Do you know what the NFL, Division 1-AA, Division II, Division III, and high school football all have in common?  They all have a playoff system in place in which at least 12 teams compete to determine their champion.  In other words, "Big Boy" college football is the only level of football at which there is no playoff.  The ONLY one.  So a four-team playoff is a good start but equally as baffling that it took this long to happen.  But let's look at it another way.  In the NFL, 12 of the 32 teams make the playoffs which equals roughly 38% of the total teams being able to play for the chance to win the Super Bowl.  However, when this four-team playoff starts, that means that only 4 of the 124 teams (or 3%) will have a chance to play for the National Championship.  Sure, some people will argue that in a playoff system the best team in the league isn't always the winner, but the same thing happens during March Madness every year and no complains and that tournament starts with 68 teams in the same single-elimination format.  What I'm really trying to say is that we would not only have had a playoff system in college football way earlier but a much better playoff system in place by now if it weren't for the fact that these pointless bowls hadn't existed for so long and had entrenched themselves in football tradition for so long and some old fat rich white guys weren't trying to cock-block a playoff system for so long.  Damn you, old fat rich guys for keeping these stupid bowls alive for way too long and not starting a more meaningful system of determining our National Champion!

Bowl Record to Date: 1-3

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