Orange Bowl Semifinal: (1) Texas v. (3) West Virginia

(1) Texas 17

(3) West Virginia 38

Texas jumped out to a 17-0 lead in the second quarter, and then West Virginia realized that they could just hand the ball off to Noel Devine to the tune of 233 yards and they would win. This sets up the least watched National Championship game in history TCU v. West Virginia. West Virginia getting to the championship is the equivalent of a 10 or 11 seed in the basketball tournament getting to the championship. Think Villanova or George Mason. While nobody will be that interested, at the same time it is much better that it was decided on the field.

Sugar Bowl Recap: (1) Alabama v. (1) TCU

(1) Alabama 10
(1) TCU 23

TCU outscored the Tide 16-0 in the 4th quarter for the upset of the number one overall seed. And this is why we have this little get together. Because if you actually play these games, shit could happen. TCU will play for the National Championship at the Rose Bowl against the Texas/West Virginia winner. I'm planning a more detailed play by play recap for that game, but we'll see.

Get Together Semifinal Brackets

SUGAR BOWL

(1) Alabama (16-0) v. (1) TCU (15-0)

ORANGE BOWL

(1) Texas (16-0) v. (3) West Virginia (12-3)

Fiesta Bowl Quarterfinal: (1) Boise St. v. (3) West Virginia

(1) Boise St. 20

(3) West Virginia 24

Cue Gus Johnson: "AND THE SHOE STILL FITS!" West Virginia knocked off unbeaten Boise St. to advance to the Orange Bowl to play Texas. I would just like to point out that in "real life" West Virginia played in the Gator Bowl (and lost).

Sorry

I would like to apologize to Mike McCarthy and/or Ted Thompson. Whichever one I said should be fired after the Tampa Bay loss. (I think I said McCarthy). I was wrong. Anyone that said they expected 11-5, especially after that ridiculous Tampa game is a liar.

The NFL can't be real happy with how things turned out in the wild card, from the standpoint that THREE of the four games are repeats of LAST WEEK! What are the odds of that happening? The Cowboys-Eagles I suppose isn't that strange since they play in the same division. Just awkward. Also, the NFL can't be real happy because this week was one of the worst weeks of NFL football in recent memory. The only game that both mattered, and was ever close was Pittsburgh/Miami. And it turned out neither team even got in. Just some horrendous football. Finally, that whole "let's add two more regular season games" thing, sounds good in theory, until you consider how shitty 25% of the games are the last two weeks already. I guess it probably would just move those two shitty weeks to the end in most circumstances. The NFL is just so fucking violent that I'm not sure how you can expect teams not to save guys for the playoffs. We'll see I guess.

The media was fairly um, wrong when they said the Packers were going to play on Saturday. It was WIDELY speculated all week that this was the case. I'm not sure I like waiting until Sunday afternoon again, but at least the game can't ruin my entire weekend if they lose.

You can't take anything away from this game really. The Cards had no interest in being there, and some of the Packers did. I'm a little unhappy with Rodgers playing as late as he did, but he wasn't injured so maybe it will be for the best. I like the Packers in this one.

One last thing. I LOVE how Fox called Dallas the "hottest team in the NFC" BEFORE they beat Philly. Even though they only one two straight (after losing like three or four in a row immediately prior to that lengthy, lengthy winning streak). Then after the Philly game, they throw up the "hottest team" graphic using only the last three games. This is despite the fact that Green Bay was 7-1 in their last 8, and Philly was 6-2. No media bias there at all.

Another last thing. He Who Shall Not Be Named is not out for stats. Exhibit #1: Going for it on fourth and goal up 34-0 and throwing the ball.

Lucky Fucks

The lucky fucks I refer to are three people I spent my day with on Friday. A friend, let's call him Schmock, and his wife, who we'll call Jamie, showed up at my place on Friday morning during the first half of the Northwestern game. During the previous day I had received a text message from Schmock asking, and I paraphrase, "if I wanted to bet on some college football games but didn't want to sign up online, how would I go about that?" Seriously Schmock? He couldn't simply ask if I could place some bets for him. So Schmock and Jamie ask me to place 5 separate $5 bets, four bowl games and then a parlay of those four bowl games (Northwestern +9, Penn St even, Ohio St +4.5 and Florida -13). As you can see they won all five bets. They also added Purdue over West Virginia (college basketball) and Lakers game over 211 to win a tidy $93 on the day and 7 for 7 on all their bets. My girlfriend is the other lucky fuck. She placed one 2 team bowl parlay and won. And she also won the over 211. I didn't have a bad day myself, winning a $125 parlay along with some other small wins. Between all of us we won $236, ate shitload of food and drank from 10:30am to midnight. An overall successful day.

Apparently I have some things to learn about betting, and Schmock and Jamie need to teach me.

The Giants +8 did not cover. No beans for Juice and Juice's brother.

Sunday Games

This is a parlay with me, Juice and Unkown Blogger. I will send both of you 40 beans if we hit it. Jaguars +1.5, Eagles +3, Giants +8 and Ravens -11.5. Giants game not looking too good.

Lazy Sunday

I don't expect today's game to be good or important. I think we will see alot of Matty Flynn and Matty Lienart. This is assuming that the Queens don't shit one down their leg. I've got 24-21 Cards if the game is unimportant. 35-20 if it is. And it will mean nothing for next week. My butthole is already tingling for playoff football.

Cotton Bowl Quarterfinal: (1) Texas v. (2) Ohio St.

(1) Texas 12

(2) Ohio St. 0

Texas will face Boise St/West Virginia winner in the Orange Bowl.

Citrus Bowl Quarterfinal Recap: (1) TCU v. (2) Iowa

(1) TCU 29

(2) Iowa 0

It will be Alabama-TCU in the Sugar Bowl Semifinal. Battle of unbeatens.

Clarification

OK, everyone who wants to participate, give me 2 picks in the order of importance. There are too many picks. I'm not picking every single pick everyone wants. I'm looking for, maybe, an 8 teamer. So, try again. List in order of importance, and I'll place the bet just before kickoff on Sunday.

Peach Bowl Quarterfinal Recap: (1) Alabama v. (1) Oregon

(1) Alabama 47

(1) Oregon 15

Alabama advances to the Sugar Bowl Semifinal to play the winner of TCU/Iowa.