{"id":1350,"date":"2008-12-31T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/31\/2008-bowl-picks-round-9\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T07:20:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:20:43","slug":"2008-bowl-picks-round-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/31\/2008-bowl-picks-round-9\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Bowl Picks Round 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another .500 day.  Hopefully today I can finally push back forward.  Most of today\u2019s games, with the exception of the Sun Bowl (who wants to watch Pac-10\/Big East crap) are fairly entertaining.  Should be a fun day of football, boozing, and hopefully a chance to get laid to bring in the New Year! <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl:<\/em><\/strong> Houston (7-5, 6-2 C-USA) vs. Air Force (8-4, 5-3 MWC).  The Cougars are favored by 3.5, but I love watching the Falcons run the option.  I think I want Air Force to win, but I am going to go with Houston.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sun Bowl:<\/em><\/strong> Oregon St (8-4, 7-2 Pac-10) vs. #20 Pittsburgh (9-3, 5-2 Big East).  Yuck!  The Beavers are favored by 2, but the Panthers are actually the ranked team.  Go figure.  Big East football sucks eggs, so Oregon St. is the pick.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl:<\/em><\/strong>  #24 Boston College (9-4, 5-3 ACC) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6, 4-4 SEC).  I think I was 12 the last time the Commodores made a Bowl trip, and I am pretty sure my dad was 12 the last time they actually <em>won<\/em> a Bowl game.  How can you not pull for Vanderbilt?  They get 3.5 in this one, so go Commodores!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> Chick-Fil-A Bowl:<\/em><\/strong> LSU (7-5, 3-5 SEC) vs. #14 Georgia Tech (9-3, 5-3 ACC).  This one is tough.  As a UGA fan I cannot stand the Bumble Bees; they are giving up 4 to the Tigers.  How can I go with an ACC team over the SEC?  The Tigers do not want to make the trip to ATL, and the Ramblin Wreck is just happy to finally make some progress.  I <em>hate<\/em> doing this, but the Yellow Jackets are the pick.<\/p>\n<p>In continued protest of Charter and the NFL Network not playing nice, I am going to take the <strong><em>Insight Bowl<\/em><\/strong> off the board, but I am pulling for Kansas (7-5, 4-4 Big 12) to beat the snot out of Minnesota (7-5, 3-5 Big Ten).  Not because I think Kansas is all that, but because I have an absolute dislike for Big Ten football.\t \t \t \t <\/p>\n<p>Record to date:  8-8.<\/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 was another .500 day. Hopefully today I can finally push back forward. Most of today\u2019s games, with the exception of the Sun Bowl (who wants to watch Pac-10\/Big East crap) are fairly entertaining. Should be a fun day of football, boozing, and hopefully a chance to get laid to bring in the New Year! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/31\/2008-bowl-picks-round-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Bowl Picks Round 9<\/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-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","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=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}