The Hawai(slight pause)i Bowl gave us our second blatant no-show of the bowl season. Nevada, who was picked to win by 31 of the 32 people in our pool, got nuked by bowl debutantes SMU 45-10. Would the news that Nevada would be without not one, but both of their 1,000-yard running backs had helped (remember, by the deadline to make your picks, we only knew that one of them would be out)? Probably not. June Jones's offense bombed away on Nevada mercilessly, and the Wolfpack were seemingly powerless to stop it. The sneaky untalked-about story emerging so far in bowl season has to revolve around the WAC and Boise State. You want to know why the Broncos get relatively little respect for running roughshod over their conference year after year? This game and the Fresno State loss to a bad Wyoming team illustrate the reason perfectly. That's all I want to say about this disgrace, other than the fact that if Colin Kaepernick's eyes were any closer together they would merge into a single entity and he would be a cyclops.
Marshall beat Ohio 21-17 in a game that no one watched or cared about.
The Pick 'Em's other bowl darling, Pittsburgh, scraped by North Carolina 19-17 in the something-something auto maintenance bowl. A Panther loss here would have meant mild disaster for an astounding 31 of our 32 entrants. Considering that Pitt had significant no-show potential, as they dropped from a BCS game (if they had held on against Cincy) to the muffler bowl against an ACC also-ran that happened to be playing in its own backyard, I am a little surprised so many people in the group were riding the Panther bandwagon. Nothing interesting happened in this game, other that Dion Lewis continuing to show that Pitt has not lost its supernatural ability to pull fantastic running backs seemingly out of the ether.
USC knocked off Boston College in a relatively yawn-worthy game that did nothing to make me less nauseous about the fact that our Rose Bowl-bound Buckeyes choked away a victory against this mediocre, begging-to-be-beaten Trojan outfit. This game was boring and I don't want to think about it anymore.
Finally, thirty of us picked up points last night as Clemson held off Kentucky 21-13 in the Music City Bowl. C.J. Spiller was good, and the ACC's "elite" finally picked up a victory over a mediocre SEC team (after Georgia Tech's loss to Georgia and Clemson's defeat at the hands of South Carolina). The upshot of all of this? Kristin, who freely admitted that she made her picks based on, in order, 1.) the teams' colors and mascots, and 2.) which teams other people picked, is in first place at 8-2 with 204 points. She also claims that she received advice from our cats, but that is possibly apocryphal. Now, she's lost her 34- and 31-point confidence games ... but almost everyone else has lost similarly high-confidence games. Will the insanity end? Stay tuned to find out. The only game today features Texas A&M and Georgia squaring off in the Independence Bowl, the result of which will certainly lead to premature proclamations of SEC or Big 12 superiority heading into the BCS title game. Hooray for conference wars.
| Rank | Team | Owner | Record | PPR | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shiva Bowl | Kristin | 8-2 | 326 | 204 |
| 1 | jimlaipply 1 | Jimmah | 7-3 | 300 | 202 |
| 3 | Super Snavely | Donnie Smavels | 6-4 | 300 | 174 |
| 4 | Cantstandya120 | Frange | 6-4 | 307 | 170 |
| 5 | mjn1980 | Mike Neary | 6-4 | 306 | 162 |
| 6 | d32moyer 1 | Di | 5-5 | 300 | 147 |
| 7 | What's YOUR Hang Up?!? | Christina | 6-4 | 320 | 146 |
| 8 | Pocket full of Posey | Katey | 5-5 | 310 | 143 |
| 9 | Kitten Mittons | Wolfe | 6-4 | 349 | 142 |
| 10 | Super Happy Fun Bowl | Evan | 5-5 | 300 | 141 |
| 11 | Birds of War | Fred | 5-5 | 313 | 138 |
| 12 | BenKarrasch 1 | take a guess | 5-5 | 355 | 132 |
| 13 | ChrisHenrysDeathmo-Bowl | Elliott | 5-5 | 326 | 131 |
| 14 | Where's the meatloaf ma!? | Chris B. | 6-4 | 362 | 126 |
| 15 | Joel Bribes the Jury | Rob Durham | 6-4 | 360 | 125 |
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