Picking a Bowl Game:

College's football's bowl season is one of the best times in sports.  Three weeks of college football games culminates in the exciting battle for the title of National Champion.  Many people like to pick the bowl games, or well, most of them.  When picking a bowl game there are many factors to look at and we begin with the first rule of picking a BCS Bowl Game:

(1) Never pick against the SEC, especially in BCS bowl games:  The Southeastern Conference finished a sub-par 5-3 last year, but fear not, they won both their BCS Bowl games.  The SEC has been the best conference in College Football for years.  You may not win every game (although you might) if you always pick with the SEC, but you will be over .500.

(2) Never pick against Utah: The Utes have the most impressive bowl resumès of the past decade, turning in 8 wins and nine straight.  The Utes, however, have to play Boise State in one of the best match-ups this season which sagways perfectly into our next rule...

(3) Never pick against Boise State:  They did lose to TCU two years ago, and while the Broncos are not playing in a BCS Bowl, they do have a high anticipated match-up against Utah.  With the last two rules, the Boise-Utah game is a tough pick.

(4) Always pick against Notre Dame: Even with high valued win against Hawaii last year, Notre Dame has earned zero respect for his lack of the Irish.  Their last true bowl win was against Texas A&M in 1994.  They play Miami Florida this year, which ones again sagways....

(5) Always pick with the Florida team: They went 3-1 last year...

(6) Go against the norm for the Big East: Pitt was the underdog against North Carolina and won, the same can be said for Rutgers against Central Florida, oh and Uconn beating South Carolina was the same deal.  The higher ranked boys from Cincinnati were pummeled by Florida (rule 5)...the exception to this rule,  South Florida who beat a horrible Northern Illinois team, but remember rule 5.

(7) Pick against the BCS Buster: Utah won in 2005 against Pitt, but if you use Rule 6, it was expected.  Also, Boise won last year, but that was against TCU which was another BCS Buster which leads us to rule (7B) A BCS Buster can only win against the Big East or another BCS Buster.

(8) Pick against "Big Game" Bob: Bob Stoops is a decent 5-6 in bowl games, but only 2-5 in BCS Bowl Games...and recently he hasn't fared so well, going 0 for his last 5, maybe it's a misnomer or maybe it's Oklahoma, anyway, their game against Uconn is ominous thanks to rules 6 and 8.

(9) Pick against the Heisman Winner: Yes Mark Ingram broke the curse last year, but the record before Ingram...1-9 and Quarterbacks were in the National Championship are 0-5.

(10) #2: Rule 10 is about #2...they are 6-2 in the last 8 National Championships.

Good Luck!!