2012 College Football Bowl Pick em Thread

[vegeta420z]

I know absolutely nothing about many of the teams in a bunch of these games (those ones i will guess on)

But post your Pick for all the bowl games and we will see who was the closest

[vegeta420z]

Gildan New Mexico Nevada vs. Arizona	Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium	Dec. 15 1 p.m.	ESPN
Famous Idaho Potato Toledo vs. Utah State	Boise, Idaho Bronco Stadium	Dec. 15 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia BYU vs. San Diego State	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 20 8 p.m.	ESPN
Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg UCF vs. Ball State	St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field	Dec. 21 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette	New Orleans Mercedes-Benz Superdome	Dec. 22 Noon	ESPN
MAACO Las Vegas Washington vs. Boise State	Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium	Dec. 22 3:30 p.m.	ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii Fresno State vs. SMU	Honolulu Aloha Stadium	Dec. 24 8 p.m.	ESPN
Little Caesars Pizza Western Kentucky vs. Central Michigan	Detroit Ford Field	Dec. 26 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman San Jose State vs. Bowling Green	Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium	Dec. 27 3 p.m.	ESPN
Belk Cincinnati vs. Duke	Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium	Dec. 27 6:30 p.m.	ESPN
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Baylor vs. UCLA	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 27 9:45 p.m.	ESPN
AdvoCare V100 Independence Ohio vs. Louisiana-Monroe	Shreveport, La. Independence Stadium	Dec. 28 2 p.m.	ESPN
Russell Athletic Rutgers vs. Virginia Tech	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Dec. 28 5:30 p.m.	ESPN
Meineke Car Care of Texas Minnesota vs. Texas Tech	Houston Reliant Stadium	Dec. 28 9 p.m.	ESPN
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Rice vs. Air Force	Fort Worth Amon G. Carter Stadium	Dec. 29 11:45 a.m.	ESPN
New Era Pinstripe West Virginia vs. Syracuse	Bronx, N.Y. Yankee Stadium	Dec. 29 3:15 p.m.	ESPN
Kraft Fight Hunger Navy vs. Arizona State	San Francisco AT&T Park	Dec. 29 4 p.m.	ESPN2
Valero Alamo Texas vs. Oregon State	San Antonio Alamodome	Dec. 29 6:45 p.m.	ESPN
Buffalo Wild Wings TCU vs. Michigan State	Tempe, Ariz. Sun Devil Stadium	Dec. 29 10:15 p.m.	ESPN
Franklin American Mortgage Music City NC State vs. Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tenn. LP Field	Dec. 31 Noon	ESPN
Hyundai Sun USC vs. Georgia Tech	El Paso, Texas Sun Bowl	Dec. 31 2 p.m.	CBS
AutoZone Liberty Iowa State vs. Tulsa	Memphis, Tenn. Liberty Bowl	Dec. 31 3:30 p.m.	ESPN
Chick-fil-A LSU vs. Clemson	Atlanta Georgia Dome	Dec. 31 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
TaxSlayer.com Gator Mississippi State vs. Northwestern	Jacksonville, Fla. Everbank Field	Jan. 1 Noon	ESPN2
Heart of Dallas Purdue vs. Oklahoma State	Dallas Cotton Bowl	Jan. 1 Noon	ESPNU
Outback South Carolina vs. Michigan	Tampa, Fla. Raymond James Stadium	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ESPN
Capital One Georgia vs. Nebraska	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ABC
Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio Wisconsin vs. Stanford	Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl	Jan. 1 5 p.m.	ESPN
Discover Orange Northern Illinois vs. Florida State	Miami Sun Life Stadium	Jan. 1 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
Allstate Sugar Louisville vs. Florida	New Orleans Louisiana Superdome	Jan. 2 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
Tostitos Fiesta Oregon vs. Kansas State	Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium	Jan. 3 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
AT&T Cotton Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma	Arlington, Texas Cowboys Stadium	Jan. 4 8 p.m.	FOX
BBVA Compass Pittsburgh vs. Ole Miss	Birmingham, Ala. Legion Field	Jan. 5 1 p.m.	ESPN
GoDaddy.com Kent State vs. Arkansas State	Mobile, Ala. Ladd-Peebles Stadium	Jan. 6 9 p.m.	ESPN
Discover BCS National Championship Notre Dame vs. Alabama	Miami Sun Life Stadium	Jan. 7 8:30 p.m.	ESPN

My picks are BOLD

[Straight_Crown]

Arizona
Utah State
San Diego State
UCF
East Carolina
Boise State
Fresno State
Central Michigan
San Jose State
Cincinnati
Baylor
Ohio
Virginia Tech
Texas Tech
Air Force
West Virginia
Arizona State
Texas
TCU
North Carolina State
Georgia Tech
Iowa State
LSU
Northwestern
Oklahoma State
Michigan
Georgia
Stanford
Florida State
Florida
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh
Kent State
Alabama

[sven]

Michigan beats SCAR by 50.

[sooner2]

Arizona
Toledo
sdsu
ucf
ull
boise
smu
cmu
sjsu
cincy
ucla
ohio
va tech
tx tech
rice
wv
asu
texas
tcu
vandy
usc
tulsa
lsu
miss state
osu
s carolina
uga
stanford
fsu
florida
oregon
tx am
kent
nd

[Baphomet3]

I don't see how anyone with full-time job work can make informed calls on 75% of these games. Who the fuck are these teams? What are these bowls? What's going on here.

[Straight_Crown]

I don't see how anyone with full-time job work can make informed calls on 75% of these games. Who the fuck are these teams? What are these bowls? What's going on here.

Normally I would agree but it seems like there are so many mismatches this year that it makes it a little easier. I would say that my list probably consists of 30% total guesses. Where as in previous years, like you said, I would be picking names out of thin air on at least twice as many of these games.

[vegeta420z]

Not that anyone took much interest in this thread but. Anyone that is down

http://games.espn.go.com/college-bowl-mania/en/

Sign in or create an account (it only takes 1 minute) then go to bowl mania and pick either confidence or straight pick ( i went with straight pics)then ,make your picks. there is even break downs of all the teams and match ups and everything it is pretty cool

[vegeta420z]

That come from behind victory for Arizona was fucking epic. I know it wasn't against any team that was worth a shіt but was still a very entertaining game to watch.

Me and Straight Clowning 2 for 2, Sooner2 is 1 for2. Still alot of games left and i have alot of guesses coming up still.

[sooner2]

Interesting weekend of games. I was pretty busy and didn't get to watch too much, but saw most of the second half of the Ariz game. Wild ending. Sometimes these early seemingly insignificant bowl games can lead to some fun watches. Looks like my next 3 pics are SDSU, UCF, and ULL.

SDSU and UCF are always a bit puzzling. One would think that even if their admins were not spending enough to stay with the top 15-20 teams in the "BCS Arms Race"....that just being able to sign the local 2 and 3 star guys in their region who are overlooked by the flagship schools would allow them to be consistently good. Both are nearly always mentioned in "sleeping giant" category conversations. I'd imagine that coaching flux has much to do with it.