Top Tips & Predictions For Getting Through Bowl Season
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.con’s College Football Blogger
The college bowl season used to be a time of excitement; it were a reward for a good to outstanding season, something to cap off a successful year.
Now it’s a time of trying to figure out if schools you’ve never heard of can cover a point spread against other teams you’ve never heard of in your pool (Eastern Michigan or Old Dominion? Arkansas State or UCF?) in games with ridiculous sponsor names (the Taxslayer Bowl, the AutoNation Cure Bowl, the Raycome Media Camellia Bowl and, of course, the unforgettable Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Tho I must admit, I do miss the Poulan Weedeater Bowl, now called the Camping World Independence Bowl).
It is next to impossible to predict what will happen in these bowl games for several reasons.
First, in most cases the games mean nothing so who wins is determined what mood the players are in when they run out of the tunnel. Secondly, there’s a wave of ineligible players after the winter grades come in and affect rosters, often involving front-line players. Third, there are the teams with interim coaches because the head coach has been fired or has left for a higher-paying job and you just never know how the players will react to this until they hit the field.
However, there are some tips that will help you fill out your pool and get you through bowl season. They are:
1.) Follow The Vegas Point Spreads But Don’t Live By Them
2.) Drink Before Looking At Your Pool
3.) Drink As You Are Filling Out Your Pool
4.) Drink When You Have Finished Filling Out Your Pool
5.) Drink While You Are Watching The Games
The Prognosticator is (thankfully) not going to go through all 40-something games but have selected a few of special interest to regular readers. The Prognosticator has a separate post to analyze and predict the NYE College Football Playoffs.
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