Only a few hours left!

Just another friendly reminder that 9:00 PM EST tonight is the deadline to enter (or re-enter) the 3rd annual Irish Trojan Bowl Pick 'em Contest. Go Navy, Beat Utah!

UPDATE: Bowl season is underway! And so is the Bowl Pick 'em contest. 90 contestants entered; you can view their picks by bowl or by contestant. The results will be posted here.

On quite a few bowls, the contestants are almost evenly divided. For instance, 48 of the 90 believe Texas will win the Holiday Bowl; 42 believe Arizona State will win. 48-42 margins also exist in the Insight Bowl (Oklahoma State over Indiana) and the Gator Bowl (Texas Tech over Virginia). In the Meineke Car Care Bowl, the split is 46-44 in favor of UConn over Wake Forest. Georgia Tech is favored over Fresno State by the same margin, 46-44, in the Humanitarian Bowl. And the contestants are split right down the middle on the Peach Bowl: 45 think Auburn will win, 45 think Clemson will win.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, the most lopsided bowls, prediction-wise, are the Hawaii Bowl (Boise State 85-5 over East Carolina), the Papa Johns Bowl (Cincinnati 84-6 over Southern Miss), the Rose Bowl (USC 83-7 over Illinois), the Las Vegas Bowl (BYU 81-9 over UCLA... hahaha) and the Capital One Bowl (Florida 80-10 over Michigan).

Rose Bowl aside, the favorites in the other BCS bowls are Georgia in the Sugar Bowl (51-39 over Hawaii), Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl (73-17 over West Virginia), Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl (58-32 over Kansas), and LSU in the Mythical National Championship Game (63-27 over Ohio State).

Comments

[Antonia]

Brendan,
You are evil you know that right?
you keep posting stuff that makes me think the baby is coming, well I just want you to know that is mean mean mean and you should STOP it boy who called wolf cause I will not believe you when it is real.

(not really mad just faklemp!)

[Drive-By Media]

I think Navy was certainly the better team during the season. However, given the fact that Johnson is gone, this game may prove to be a little tighter. It'll be interesting to see what Navy does with the new head coach and in the absence of Johnson's play-calling.

[Sandy Underpants]

hmpf... "interesting" and "Navy" used in the same sentence. I must not be the only one desperate for a College Football game.

[B. Minich]

In college basketball, Pitt has defeated Duke in overtime.

YES!!!! If I root for any college basketball team, I root for Pitt. (Most Penn State fans admit this in private, since Penn State and men's basketball don't ever get along.) And in any event, I like the idea of anyone beating Duke. Jamie Dixon is a great coach, and I hope his Pitt team someday cracks the Sweet Sixteen and goes all the way. He graciously deals with the way his town works (basically, Pitt basketball doesn't exist until the Steelers are done, and he graciously accepts that reality), and you couldn't ask for a better college coach. He also recruits well, considering that Pennsylvania is not known for its basketball talent.