Don't Bet On It!: 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Predictions (Part II)
by T Kyle King on Dec 14, 2010 6:00 PM EST
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PrintThe year I was born, there were eleven bowl games in college football and there were no Division I-AA playoffs because there was no Division I-AA. Back then, no one made bowl predictions on a weblog because there was no web, the only log was being recorded by Captain James T. Kirk, and computers occupied whole rooms and/or went crazy and murdered astronauts.
Fortunately, we live in the here and now, which is much better in many ways, and the first installment of my bowl predictions picked the winners of the first five postseason tilts yet didn’t even make it all the way to Christmas Eve. There being no time to waste, therefore, I will issue my usual disclaimer---Don’t Bet On It!---and dive right into my next set of forecasts:
Poinsettia Bowl: Navy Midshipmen v. San Diego St. Aztecs (Dec. 23): San Diego State got eighteen different kinds of hosed. The Aztecs haven’t been to a bowl game since 1998, and, when they finally make it back into postseason play, they get an invitation to spend the holidays in exotic distant . . . San Diego? Lame. Then again, if you’re already in the most livable city in the United States, you’re probably not chomping at the bit to celebrate Christmas in Shreveport, so it’s cool. What isn’t cool is the fact that Navy is going to run all over the Aztecs.
Hawaii Bowl: Hawaii Warriors v. Tulsa Golden Hurricane (Dec. 24): Tulsa could take a lesson here. Hawaii used to call itself the Rainbow Warriors, until someone in the Aloha State realized that naming your sports teams after a boat that was sunk by the French lacked masculinity, even for Hawaii. By dropping the "Rainbow" from "Rainbow Warriors," Hawaii halved its nomenclature yet doubled its toughness. "Golden Hurricane" sounds like a term that, if used on a less family-friendly weblog, would require you to do a UDCU that taught you more about the twisted creativity of other people’s personal lives than you ever really wanted to know. Tulsa should lose the "Golden," but, in the meantime, they’re going to lose the game, as the Warriors are going to win at home.
Little Caesars Bowl: Fla. International Golden Panthers v. Toledo Rockets (Dec. 26): When I imagine what an ad for this game would look like, I think of the commercial for the 1988 "Saturday Night Live" episode hosted by Judge Reinhold and featuring 10,000 Maniacs as the musical guest. Dana Carvey, dressed as the Church Lady, pointed out that Reinhold was not a jurist and 10,000 Maniacs were just a handful of people. By the same token, Little Caesars is a third-rate pizza company rather than a Roman emperor, only eight per cent of FIU’s 2009 enrollment was made up of international students, and the University of Toledo has nothing to do with designing spacecraft or ballistic missiles. (The nickname "Rockets" was inspired by a 99-yard Toledo fumble return in a 32-12 loss to Carnegie Tech in 1923. No, I am not kidding.) The Rockets had better win this one quickly, before this bowl game is shut down by federal agents for violating truth in advertising laws.
Independence Bowl: Air Force Falcons v. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Dec. 27): The over/under on total passing yards in this game is twelve. Seriously, this is going to look like the junior varsity version of a Nebraska-Oklahoma game from the 1970s. While I am no fan of Paul Johnson, he guided Navy to a few Commander-in-Chief’s Trophies, so I am confident of his ability to lead Georgia Tech to a win over Air Force.
Champs Sports Bowl: N.C. State Wolfpack v. West Virginia Mountaineers (Dec. 28): I’m almost positive these two teams came into November very much in the hunt for the championship of the ACC Atlantic the ACC Coastal the ACC Legends Division one of the divisions of the Atlantic Coast Conference. (Note: Yes, I know that the ACC and the Big East are two different conferences; I just don’t care, and I think that, if you combined the best of both leagues, you’d get one legitimate conference. Basically, they’re like the Mountain West and the WAC with more history better public relations the good fortune of being located in the Eastern time zone.) I have no faith whatsoever in either of these teams, but I trust Tom O’Brien to be able to win a bowl game, so I’m siding with N.C. State.
Ladies and gentlemen, that’s ten bowl games down, and only 73 more to go! All right, that was an exaggeration, but there is no hyperbole involved in my regular disclaimer, which I urge you to heed. When it comes to my predictions, whatever you do, . . . Don’t Bet On It!
Go ‘Dawgs!
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If you'd had an index file, you could've looked it up in the index file under "index file."
Sorry; your use of the word “recursive” caused me to think of the “Doctor Who” episode “Castrovalva.”
Yes, I’m a “Doctor Who” fan, too. It works in my favor, really, because it keeps me from having to feel ashamed of being a “Star Trek” fan.
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Kinda like when I dated that one husky chick ....
It made me feel better about dating that even huskier chick?
Even white boys got to shout… baby got back!
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't." - Lewis Grizzard
Paul Johnson thinks if anyone from SDSU says anything about your prediction
You should punch em in the face.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't." - Lewis Grizzard
Random thoughts
why in Gods name did they name the TU team the Golden Hurricanes?? Golden Drillers I would understand given this is Tulsa, and well our baseball team is the Drillers and there is that big ole statue in front of the Expo Center at the fair grounds of a “Golden Driller.” But speaking meterologically – hurricanes are not hurricanes if and when the systems arrive here – tropical depressions usually at best, but never hurricanes. Tulsa Tornadoes would work since those actually happen. Even the Tulsa Microbursts for that matter – those have actually happened in Tulsa in the last 5 yrs or so, but Tulsa Golden Hurricanes?!?!? This.does.not.compute.
I can bake like a demon.
I love Kyles annual posts like this - because it never ceases to crack me up.....
Many of these teams I am sure he has covered before, but I like the annual reminder of how many colleges have wierd names / mascots / traditions and they are often based on things that would be…..well, embarrasing. TKK is definately a subject matter expert on colleges names and mascots.
To be honest, golden driller sounds a whole lot more risque than hurricane.
It’s also a very good point – if you could take the best teams of the ACC and the Big East – that could garnish 12 teams that would make a major conference. Nice idea.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
To make it even slightly weirder, podunkdawg, . . .
. . . Tulsa isn’t the “Hurricanes” (plural, like Miami); Tulsa is the “Golden Hurricane” (singular), which is not dissimilar from one of Georgia Tech’s historic alternative nicknames, “Golden Tornado.” It’s a single unified Golden Hurricane, not several smaller Golden Hurricanes (which, I guess, is meteorologically more likely, even if only marginally so).
Tulsa is one of those teams (like Alabama, Illiniois, Marshall, Navy, Nevada, N.C. State, Notre Dame, Stanford, Syracuse, and Tulane) you can use to win a bar bet based upon the ability to name college teams with mascots that do not end in “s.” It’s just strange all the way around; since Tulsa plays in a state dominated by the University of Oklahoma (which, inexplicably, is abbreviated “OU,” but that’s a different oddity altogether), I think Tulsa’s sports teams should be called the “Laters.”
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wow y'all aren't going to believe this
but – the reason TU is the Golden Hurricane is because GA Tech was already the Golden Tornado. See Origin of the Golden Hurricane
I can bake like a demon.
Yet another team obsessed with the Yellow Jackets.
When will it end?
by Cherokee's Grip on Dec 15, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
end in a "s" or in "men" was the bet I heard (think it was men)
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Adding "men" to the equation would eliminate only Navy . . .
. . . now that Syracuse (absurdly) has gone from being the Orangemen to being the Orange.
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I can't remember the other part apparently - maybe it is just "s"
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Incidentally,
we have OU – the University of Oklahoma, TU – The University of Tulsa and then we have the odd ball – OSU – Oklahoma State University. Tho truth be told there are a number of other, lesser known universities in Oklahoma – but I think these three are the only ones playing D1A football.
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