BBCS – Beanie’s Bowl Challenge Selection game

College football bowl games start tonight with the ever classic/festive Poinsettia Bowl. It’s the United State’s Navy verse the United States Most Boring State of Utah. I’ll take Navy in this one (I mean come on, they have battleships). Let’s play a little game right now and everyone pick the winners of all the bowls. (straight up, no spreads) Ready, on your mark… Get set… GO!

 

~ Poinsettia - NAVY over Utah

 

~New Orleans - MEMPHIS over Florida Atlantic

 

~Papajohns.com - CINCINNATI over Southern Miss (I love this bowl game name b/c they could have called it the Papa John’s Bowl but no, they had to go with the dot com name)

 

~New Mexico - NEW MEXICO over Nevada

 

~Las Vegas – UCLA over BYU (For the record, since you can’t tell by the caps, I really am picking UCLA but I have a feeling I should go with BYU for the sole reason that the game is in Vegas. BYU Mormons won’t be influenced by the glitz and glamor [booze, gambling and ladies] while UCLA won’t sleep an wink. Of course, UCLA is a little used to that stuff so if BYU comes overwhelmed with Vegas they could not even show up for the game since they are on a 18-hour bender.)

~ Hawaii - BOISE STATE over East Carolina (I wanted to pick Hawaii so bad. Is this the first time they aren’t playing in their own bowl game?)

 

~ Motor City - PURDUE over Central Michigan (as much as I don’t want to pick a Big Ten team, I just can’t pick a MAC team either.)

 

~ Holiday - TEXAS over Arizona State

 

~ Texas - TCU over Houston (did they rename this the Texas Bowl because the two teams are from Texas, or did they pick two teams from Texas because it’s the Texas Bowl?)

 

~ Champ Sports – BOSTON COLLEGE over Michigan State

 

~ Emerald - MARYLAND over Oregon State

 

~ Meineke Car Car – WAKE FOREST over Connecticut

 

~ Liberty - CENTRAL FLORIDA over Mississippi State

 

~ Alamo - TEXAS A&M over Penn State (in the bowl I wish Michigan was playing in because they’d at least have a chance against the Aggies.)

 

~ Independence - ALABAMA over Colorado

 

~ Armed Forces - AIR FORCE over California (I think Cal will win but how do you pick against the Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl? That’d be like rooting against Rocky when he fought the Drago.)

 

~ Humanitarian - FRESNO STATE over Georgia Tech (in the bowl where both teams are pissed of at Boise State for making their field blue and even more pissed off they have to play one of only cold weather bowl games. I took Frenso only because they’ve played on the blue before and GT will be utterly confused by it. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of the line men wearing water wings.)

 

~Sun - SOUTH FLORIDA over Oregon (remember how at one point this year both these teams were ranked No. 2 in the land?)

 

~ Music City – KENTUCKY over Florida State (how stupid do you have to be to get caught cheating on an online test? Florida State football dumb apparently.)

 

~ Chick-fil-A - AUBURN over Clemson (side note: a Chick-fil-A just opened near me and, one it’s delicious, two, I’ve never seen a fast food restaurant packed like that since McDonald’s was giving away Beanie Babies and even that couldn’t compare to the rowdiness seen for these chicken sandwiches.)

 

~ Insight – OKLAHOMA STATE over Indiana

 

~ Outback - TENNESSEE over Wisconsin

 

~ Cotton - AKRKANSAS over Missouri (this could be one of the best bowl games. It starts at 11:30 New Year’s Day, so wake up, drink your hangover off and watch this great game. I like Mizzou but Run DMC is too great.)

 

~ Gator - VIRGINIA over Texas Tech

 

~ Capital One - FLORIDA over Michigan (I hate to pick it that way but I really can’t see Michigan stopping Tebow. I really hope Michigan surprises everyone and sends Carr off with a great win. He deserves it.)

 

~ Rose - USC over Illinois (could be the biggest blowout of the bowls. Still don’t understand how Illinois gets a BCS bid. The rule of only two teams from the same conference needs to be changed. Missouri should be here.)

 

~ Sugar - HAWAII over Georgia (if you can’t win your division, let alone conference, not sure you should get a BCS either. I’m picking Hawaii on the lone fact that I want them to win to see if the next non-BCS team to go undefeated finally gets to play for a national title)

 

~ Fiesta - OKLAHOMA over West Virginia

 

~ Orange - VIRGINIA TECH over Kansas (Kansas had a great season but this game just means more to the people from Blacksburg.)

 

~ International - BALL STATE over Rutgers 

 

~ GMAC - TULSA over Bowling Green (not sure why these last two games are played after Jan. 1. No one cares about them. Lump them into December with the rest of the games.)

 

~ BSC Championship - LSU over Ohio State (and the losses in national title games continue to add up, football [twice], basketball and soccer, and finally shuts the stupid Luckeye fans up.)

 

So there you have it. All 32 bowl winners. Let me know who you got in all the games. The winner will get a whole post devoted to him and his best comments.

 

Since I more than likely won’t be back to blog until Dec. 26, Merry Christmas to all. Hope Santa is good to you and you enjoy the holiday.