{"id":1914,"date":"2010-01-02T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/02\/sec-predictions-round-5-%e2%80%93-when-will-bowl-season-end\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T12:27:52","slug":"sec-predictions-round-5-%e2%80%93-when-will-bowl-season-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/02\/sec-predictions-round-5-%e2%80%93-when-will-bowl-season-end\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Predictions (Round 5 \u2013 When will Bowl season end?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when yesterday, New Year\u2019s Day, was the day for all the major Bowl games?  This stringing everything along for an extra week for the sake of TV ratings rather sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I went 2-1 against the spread.  I knew I should not have picked Auburn to cover; while the Tigers won they almost threw away the Outback Bowl multiple times, finally defeating Northwestern 38-35.  WTF happened to LSU?  A sloppy Capital One Bowl field neutralized LSU\u2019s superior speed, and thus the SEC\u2019s other Tigers fell to the Nittany Lions 19-17.  Lucky I took the points and those 2.5 LSU received from Penn St. put me over the hump.  Finally, the Florida Gators were giving up 12.5, but they easily whipped the Cincinnati Bearcats 51-24 last night in the Sugar Bowl.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Papajohns.com Bowl:  South Carolina vs. UConn<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThis one is almost unwatchable.  Two run of the mill teams in their respective conferences.  The fighting chickens are giving up 4, and while I should not give away that many points, South Carolina is the pick.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cotton Bowl:  Oklahoma St. vs. Ole Miss<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nOle Miss should represent the SEC well today.  Both teams are entering today\u2019s match up after losing out to their end of year rivals, but I expect Ole Miss to bounce back and cover the 3 they are laying to the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Liberty Bowl:  Arkansas vs. East Carolina<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe Pirates come into this game on a roll, winning their last four games, while the Razorbacks lost a heart-breaker in OT to LSU.  With that, Conference USA gets no respect in this one; Arkansas is giving up 7.5, which to me seems like too damn much, but I have yet to pick against the SEC this Bowl season, so why start now?  The hogs cover the 7.5 in a high scoring shootout.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nRegular Season Record: 46-41<br \/>\nSEC Championship: 0-1<br \/>\nSEC Bowl Record: 3-3<br \/>\nFinal Record: 49-45<br \/>\n\u2014<br \/>\nSEC Bowl Record: 3-3 *Actual, not my predictions<br \/>\n<\/em><\/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>Remember when yesterday, New Year\u2019s Day, was the day for all the major Bowl games? This stringing everything along for an extra week for the sake of TV ratings rather sucks. Yesterday I went 2-1 against the spread. I knew I should not have picked Auburn to cover; while the Tigers won they almost threw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/02\/sec-predictions-round-5-%e2%80%93-when-will-bowl-season-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEC Predictions (Round 5 \u2013 When will Bowl season end?)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","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=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}