{"id":1349,"date":"2008-12-30T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/30\/2008-bowl-picks-round-8\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:48:24","slug":"2008-bowl-picks-round-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/30\/2008-bowl-picks-round-8\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Bowl Picks Round 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went .500.  North Carolina St. kept Rutgers out of the endzone in the closing minutes, and while Missouri got the win, they did not cover.  So today we get another helping of three games, but two of the three are some what interesting match-ups.  Too bad I do not have the NFL Network; no Texas Bowl for me. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Roady\u2019s Humanitarian Bowl:<\/em><\/strong> Maryland (7-5, 4-4 ACC) vs. Nevada (7-5, 5-3 WAC).  They should have just called this one the \u201cWe want some teams to play on the blue field bowl.\u201d  OK, not very clever, but neither is the match-up.  As much as the ACC sucks, I cannot believe that a WAC team is giving up 1.5 points.  I am taking the turtles and the points.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pacific Life Holiday Bowl:<\/em><\/strong> #13 Oklahoma St (9-3, 5-3 Big 12) vs. #17 Oregon (9-3, 7-2 Pac-10).  This one is interesting to me because next year Georgia opens up on the road against the Cowboys.  The pokes are giving up 2.5, but I expect them to win by 9.  Should be an entertaining game.<\/p>\n<p>In protest of Charter and the NFL Network not playing nice, I am going to take the <strong><em>Texas Bowl<\/em><\/strong> off the board, but I am pulling for Rice (9-3, 7-1 C-USA) to beat Western Michigan (9-3, 6-2 MAC)<\/p>\n<p>Record to date:  7-7.<\/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>Yesterday I went .500. North Carolina St. kept Rutgers out of the endzone in the closing minutes, and while Missouri got the win, they did not cover. So today we get another helping of three games, but two of the three are some what interesting match-ups. Too bad I do not have the NFL Network; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/30\/2008-bowl-picks-round-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Bowl Picks Round 8<\/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-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}