{"id":1358,"date":"2009-01-07T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/07\/2008-bowl-picks-round-15\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T11:42:44","slug":"2008-bowl-picks-round-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/07\/2008-bowl-picks-round-15\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Bowl Picks Round 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief!  It has been a long Bowl season, but it finally comes to this \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FedEx BCS National Championship:<\/em><\/strong> #2 Florida (12-1, 7-1 SEC) vs. #1 Oklahoma (12-1, 7-1 Big 12).  SEC vs. Big 12 to determine the top dog, and to end the debate for the best conference.  Or does it?  The Pac-10 went a perfect 5-0 this year; SEC and Big 12 will end the Bowl season with 2-3 losses.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what else happens, there should be plenty of debate over the participants in this game.  I do not think there is much question that Florida should be here (SEC bias), but what about Oklahoma?  What about Texas?  USC?  Utah (who am I kidding)?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/gaming\/sheridan.htm\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/gaming\/sheridan.htm', 'line');\" target=\"new\">line<\/a> for this one has been all over the place, but always in favor of the Gators.  I have see it as low as 1 and as high as 4.  As I write this, the Gators are laying 3.5 to the Sooners.<\/p>\n<p>Gators are the pick.  This one will be close, but in the end Gators will pull out a 9-13 point margin of victory.<\/p>\n<p>Record to date:  18-12.<\/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>Good grief! It has been a long Bowl season, but it finally comes to this \u2026 FedEx BCS National Championship: #2 Florida (12-1, 7-1 SEC) vs. #1 Oklahoma (12-1, 7-1 Big 12). SEC vs. Big 12 to determine the top dog, and to end the debate for the best conference. Or does it? The Pac-10 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/07\/2008-bowl-picks-round-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Bowl Picks Round 15<\/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-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","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=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}