{"id":1080,"date":"2007-12-21T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/21\/2007-bowl-predictions-day-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T12:18:06","slug":"2007-bowl-predictions-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/21\/2007-bowl-predictions-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 Bowl Predictions (Day 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Bowl game.\u00a0 Today we get a classic match up between Florida Atlantic and Memphis in the New Orleans Bowl.\u00a0 Once upon a no so distant past, this was North Texas territory, but as I said, we get a different sort of compelling game between the best in the Sun Belt and the fourth or fifth best in Conference USA.\u00a0 To be honest, I am not even sure why they schedule this sort of game.\u00a0 The $325K payout is pretty much a joke, but let\u2019s move on to the prediction.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to give this one to Schnellenberger\u2019s Owls because their non conference schedule was more compelling than Memphis.\u00a0 The Owls lost to Oklahoma State, #14 Kentucky, #6 South Florida, and #12 Florida.\u00a0 They also beat bottom of the bottom of the Big Ten barrel, Minnesota.\u00a0 Memphis?\u00a0 Does playing Mississippi (perennial SEC joke) and Jacksonville State (who?) count as a non conference schedule?<\/p>\n<p>2007 Bowl predictions:\u00a0 0 \u2013 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Bowl game.\u00a0 Today we get a classic match up between Florida Atlantic and Memphis in the New Orleans Bowl.\u00a0 Once upon a no so distant past, this was North Texas territory, but as I said, we get a different sort of compelling game between the best in the Sun Belt and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/12\/21\/2007-bowl-predictions-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2007 Bowl Predictions (Day 2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}