{"id":1354,"date":"2009-01-03T07:39:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T11:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/03\/2008-bowl-picks-round-12\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T11:53:06","slug":"2008-bowl-picks-round-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/03\/2008-bowl-picks-round-12\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Bowl Picks Round 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or the Go Falcons! Edition.  How can I be so right, yet so wrong?  The Red Raiders proved that they were not so hot, getting handily corralled at the hands of the Rebels from Oxford.  Kentucky showed me that I should not pick against the SEC, and that they where not in the same piss poor category as the Fighting Chickens.  Finally, WTF happened to the Elephants?  Seriously, I thought they would win, but I did not like the point spread.  Did anyone really think they would lay down for Utah?  The end result was a 2-1 day.   <\/p>\n<p>I am surprised that we are going Bowling today since today is all about the Falcons and the NFL playoffs, but duty calls, so I am obligated to make a selection.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>International Bowl:<\/em><\/strong> Buffalo (8-5, 5-3 MAC) vs. Connecticut (7-5, 3-4 Big East).  Not sure if they get any harder to pick or watch than this one.  I am going to go with the points and take Buffalo with the 6.5, but I am not sure why anyone is bothering to play this game.<\/p>\n<p>Record to date:  16-11.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>Or the Go Falcons! Edition. How can I be so right, yet so wrong? The Red Raiders proved that they were not so hot, getting handily corralled at the hands of the Rebels from Oxford. Kentucky showed me that I should not pick against the SEC, and that they where not in the same piss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/01\/03\/2008-bowl-picks-round-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Bowl Picks Round 12<\/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=\"https:\/\/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":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}