Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Bowl Season During Covid Season




It is finally bowl season and the Razorbacks are going bowling!  It's against TCU in the Texas Bowl on December 31 at 7:00 PM.  Cheer for the Hogs to get one more victory before 2020 ends.  We haven't gone bowling since 2016.  We lost to Virginia Tech 35-24 that year at the Belk Bowl. The first year of Sam Pittman just keeps getting better.  We are 3-7 which is a weird record a for a team going to a bowl game.  But remember, we played 10 conference games.  Winning 3 conference games could mean that your record has at most 7 wins if you played 4 non-conference games like a regular season and won them all.  To be positive about this season, let's just assume the best and say that we went 7-5 if this was a regular season.  I say that's pretty good compared to going 4-18 when Chad Morris was our coach.  You know what?  Auburn just fired Gus Malzahn from the first season that Chad Morris got onto their staff.  I just thought that that was funny.

It is bowl season now and I am on my winter break from grad school.  There are a lot of games to cover and I can't wait to see how my predictions go.  In speaking of bowl games, today Feleipe Franks said that he will play in the Texas Bowl since he wants to "finish what he started."  I just think we all need to appreciate having a more decent quarterback on our team now.  To me, he kind of has the play and physique of Patrick Mahomes.  He has arm strength like him and can be a warrior at times to run for the first down if he needs to.  But of course he isn't Patrick Mahomes or that would be so awesome.  Even after Feleipe Franks is gone, we still have KJ Jefferson who played a very good game as the starter against Missouri.  The offense scored 48 points and we still lost the game so I don't blame the QB for that one.  I actually appreciate that we had more games like that this year instead of getting blown out by 30 points for a lot of games the past few seasons.

Now let's get to the predictions for this week of football.  My predictions last time for College Football was 7-2 (77.8%) and my Underdog predictions were 0-0 (none%).  My running total for College Football is 81-23  (77.9%) and for Underdog predictions is 1-8 (11.1%).  For NFL, I was 14-2 (87.5%) and my NFL Underdog predictions were 0-0 (none%).  My running total for NFL is 65-33 (66.3%) and my NFL Underdog predictions are 0-5 (0%). Now here are my next predictions and I'll do all of Bowl Season that hasn't happened yet and even predict the National Championship:  Here we go:


College Football Bowl Season
UCF vs. BYU: UCF
Louisiana Tech vs. Ga Southern: Ga Southern
Memphis vs. FAU: Memphis
Hawaii vs. Houston:  Houston
Marshall vs. Buffalo: Marshall
Louisiana vs. UTSA:  Louisiana
Western Kentucky vs. Georgia State: Georgia State
Liberty vs. C. Carolina: C. Carolina
Oklahoma State vs. Miami: Miami
Texas vs. Colorado: Texas
Wake Forest vs. Wisconsin: Wisconsin
Iowa vs. Missouri: Iowa
Florida vs. Oklahoma: Florida
Arkansas vs. TCU: Arkansas
Tulsa vs. Mississippi St.: Tulsa
Ball State vs. San Jose State: San Jose State
West Virginia vs. Army: West Virginia
Georgia vs. Cincinnati: Georgia
Auburn vs. Northwestern: Auburn
Notre Dame vs. Alabama: Alabama
Ohio State vs. Clemson: Clemson
Ole Miss vs. Indiana: Indiana
Oregon vs. Iowa State: Iowa State
Texas A&M vs. North Carolina: Texas A&M

National Championship:
Alabama vs. Clemson: Alabama



College Football Underdogs
NC State vs. Kentucky: Kentucky

NFL Week 16
Vikings vs. Saints: Saints
Buccaneers vs. Lions: Buccaneers
49ers vs. Cardinals: Cardinals
Dolphins vs. Raiders: Raiders
Falcons vs. Chiefs: Chiefs
Browns vs. Jets:  Browns
Colts vs. Steelers: Colts
Bears vs. Jaguars:  Bears
Giants vs. Ravens: Ravens
Bengals vs. Texans:  Texans
Broncos vs. Chargers:  Chargers
Panthers vs. Washington: Washington
Eagles vs. Cowboys: Cowboys
Rams vs. Seahawks:  Seahawks
Titans vs. Packers:  Titans
Bills vs. Patriots:  Bills


NFL Underdogs

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