{"id":1335,"date":"2008-12-21T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/21\/the-spread-helps-keep-the-bowls-entertaining\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T12:39:54","slug":"the-spread-helps-keep-the-bowls-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/21\/the-spread-helps-keep-the-bowls-entertaining\/","title":{"rendered":"The spread helps keep the Bowls entertaining."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I do not actually bet.  Still a virgin in this regard.  Second, there are so many Bowl games (30+) that it is rather silly.  Finally, as much as I love college football, I figured I needed to do something to keep my interest in all the minor crap that goes on three weeks before Oklahoma lays a turd against Florida.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to a last minute touchdown, Wake Forest covered against Navy.<\/li>\n<li>I squeaked by in my bold prediction (sarcasm folks) that Fresno St. would need more than three against Colorado St.<\/li>\n<li>I was spot on running with the South Florida Bulls and the 12 points they had to lay against Memphis.<\/li>\n<li>I was also correct with my Arizona pick over BYU.  Can you believe that the media went crazy earlier in the season with BYU National Championship talk?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I am off to a nice 4-0 (against the spread) start to the Bowl season.  Happy me!<\/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>First off, I do not actually bet. Still a virgin in this regard. Second, there are so many Bowl games (30+) that it is rather silly. Finally, as much as I love college football, I figured I needed to do something to keep my interest in all the minor crap that goes on three weeks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/21\/the-spread-helps-keep-the-bowls-entertaining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The spread helps keep the Bowls entertaining.<\/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-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}