Here they all are.

The Rules:
1. Pick the winner in each game.

2. Predict how many points the team you pick to win the designated Game of the Week will win by. This will be used for tiebreak purposes. This week it is the BCS Championship game between Florida and An Ohio State University.

3. The first pick is needed by the kickoff of the first game -- the December 19 Poinsettia Bowl between Texas Christian and Northern Illinois.

4. Picks must be submitted either via the Private Message function or E-mail. My email address is dcbucky2000@hotmail.com -- please do not post your picks here. Include your Outsports nickname with your picks.

December 19
Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego)
1. TCU vs. Northern Illinois
(Have never met)

December 21
Las Vegas Bowl
2. BYU vs. Oregon
(Last met in 1990: Oregon 32 - BYU 16)

December 22
New Orleans Bowl
3. Rice vs. Troy
(Have never met)

December 23
Papajohns.com Bowl (Birmingham)
4. South Florida vs. East Carolina
(Last met 2004: USF 41 - ECU 17)

New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque)
5. New Mexico vs. San Jose State
(Last met in 1998: SJS 37 - NM 20)

Armed Forces (Ft. Worth)
6. Tulsa vs. Utah
(Last met in 1997: Tulsa 21 - Utah 13)

December 24
Hawaii Bowl (Honolulu)
7. Arizona State vs. Hawaii
Last met in 1979: HI 29 - AZ-State 17)

December 26
Motor City Bowl (Detroit)
8. Middle Tennessee vs. Central Michigan
(Have never met)

December 27
Emerald Bowl (San Francisco)
9. Florida State vs. UCLA
(Have never met)

December 28
Independence Bowl (Shreveport)
10. Oklahoma State vs. Alabama
(Have never met)

Holiday Bowl (San Diego)
11. California vs. Texas A&M
(Last met in 1983: Cal 19 - A&M 17)

Texas Bowl (Houston)
12. Rutgers vs. Kansas State
(Have never met)

December 29
Music City Bowl (Nashville)
13. Clemson vs. Kentucky
(Last met in 1993 Peach Bowl: Clemson 14 - KY 13)

Sun Bowl (El Paso)
14. Oregon State vs. Missouri
(Last met in 1956: O-State 19 - Mizzou 13)

Liberty Bowl (Memphis)
15. Houston vs. South Carolina
(Last met in 1974: Houston 24 - usc 14)

Insight Bowl (Tempe)
16. Texas Tech vs. Minnesota
(Have never met)

Champs Sports Bowl (Orland0o)
17. Purdue vs. Maryland
(Have never met)

December 30
Meineke Car Care Bowl (Charlotte)
18. Navy vs. Boston College
Last met in 2002: BC 46 - Navy 21)

Alamo Bowl (San Antonio)
19. Texas vs. Iowa
(Last met in the 1984 Freedom Bowl: Iowa 55 - TX 17)

Chick-fil-A Bowl (Atlanta)
20. Georgia vs. Virginia Tech
(Last met in 1932: VaTech 7 - uga 6)

December 31
MPC Computers Bowl (Boise)
21. Miami of Florida vs. Nevada
(Have never met)

January 1
Outback Bowl (Tampa)
22. Tennessee vs. Penn State
(Last met in 1993 Citrus Bowl: PSU 31 - Tennessee 13)

Cotton Bowl (Dallas)
23. Auburn vs. Nebraska
(Last met in 1982: Nebraska 41 - AU 7)

Gator Bowl (Jacksonville)
24. West Virginia vs. Georgia Tech
(Last met in 1997 Carquest Bowl: GaTech 35 - WVU 30)

Capital One Bowl (Orlando)
25. Arkansas vs. Wisconsin
(Last met in 1912: Bucky 64 - Razors 7)

The Rose Bowl (Pasadena)
26. USC vs. Michigan
(Last met in the 2003 Rose Bowl: USC 28 - Meechigan 14)

Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, Arizona)
27. Boise State vs. Oklahoma
(Have never met)

January 2
Orange Bowl (Miami, Florida)
28. Louisville vs. Wake Forest
(Have never met)

January 3
Sugar Bowl (New Orleans)
29. Notre Dame vs. LSU
(Last met in 1993: ND 39 - LSU 36)

January 6
International Bowl (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
30. Cincinnati vs. Western Michigan

January 7
GMAC Bowl (Mobile)
31. Ohio vs. Southern Miss
(Have never met)

January 8 (Glendale, AZ)
BCS Championship Game
32. Florida vs. An Ohio State University -- GAME OF THE WEEK
(Have never met)

CUT-AND-PASTE
1. TCU vs. Northern Illinois
2. BYU vs. Oregon
3. Rice vs. Troy
4. South Florida vs. East Carolina
5. New Mexico vs. San Jose State
6. Tulsa vs. Utah
7. Arizona State vs. Hawaii
8. Middle Tennessee vs. Central Michigan
9. Florida State vs. UCLA
10. Oklahoma State vs. Alabama
11. California vs. Texas A&M
12. Rutgers vs. Kansas State
13. Clemson vs. Kentucky
14. Oregon State vs. Missouri
15. Houston vs. South Carolina
16. Texas Tech vs. Minnesota
17. Purdue vs. Maryland
18. Navy vs. Boston College
19. Texas vs. Iowa
20. Georgia vs. Virginia Tech
21. Miami of Florida vs. Nevada
22. Tennessee vs. Penn State
23. Auburn vs. Nebraska
24. West Virginia vs. Georgia Tech
25. Arkansas vs. Wisconsin
26. USC vs. Michigan
27. Boise State vs. Oklahoma
28. Louisville vs. Wake Forest
29. Notre Dame vs. LSU
30. Cincinnati vs. Western Michigan
31. Ohio vs. Southern Miss
32. Florida vs. Ohio State -- GAME OF THE WEEK -- predict by how many points the victor will win.

Bumping this up.

I have picks from:

mdphl
miamidr
CougarFan

Just amazing how many teams have never met, or haven't met for years and years. College football brings people together who would never meet otherwise! <wipes away tear>

DCBucky, your "Pic'em" in the thread heading is short a "k".

The first bowl game is less than a week away, so don't forget to get your picks in.

Mine are:
1. Northern Illinois
2. Oregon
3. Troy
4. East Carolina
5. San Jose State
6. Utah
7. Hawaii
8. Central Michigan
9. ucla
10. Alabama
11. Texas A&M
12. Rutgers
13. Clemson
14. Oregon State
15. South Carolina
16. Texas Tech
17. Purdue
18. Boston College
19. Texas
20. Virginia Tech
21. Miami of Florida
22. Penn State
23. Nebraska
24. Georgia Tech
25. Wisconsin
26. Michigan
27. Oklahoma
28. Louisville
29. LSU
30. Western Michigan
31. Southern Miss
32. Ohio State by 14


Yep -- didn't wanna wear out my "K" on the keyboard -- need it for statements like this: Wiskonsin is gonna kick Arkansas' buttocks in the Kapital One Bowl

SIGH

Poinsettia Bowl is on Monday.

Picks in from:

SoFlaSpartan and Purdue Fan

Reminder: That Texas Christian vs. The Northern Illinois University match-up is fast approaching

weirdblackdog and GymMountaineer have weighed in.

More folks are in the contest:

psulionstorm07
istplaytym and
The B Man

Again, the first bowl is tomorrow -- the true start of the holiday season!

And I now have entries from:

jerseyguy
The Other FSU
meric

PCC
SCTrojan
theosdaddy and
zeno

are now in

Go Monica! is also in.

18 of us favor TCU over Northern Illinois tonight. 2 disagree.

Okay, Bucky, I gotta know.

WHY did you pick Northern Illinois over TCU???

blueraider and Hwkpride are in the contest.

20 made the correct pick last night with TCU -- 3 were wrong. I'll get the rest of the prediction posted later.


Just a midwestern homer , I guess Actually I thought Garrett Wolfe was gonna run all over TCU. Win some, lose some ... lose some more!

Here we go:

12-10
Nevada over Miami of Florida
Wisconsin over Arkansas

13-10
Utah over Tulsa

13-9
Meechigan over The Other USC

14-9
BYU over Oregon
SJ-State over New Mexico

14-8
Terps over Boilermakers

16-6
OK-State over bama
Southern Miss over The Ohio University
Cal over A&M
Auburn over Huskers
Sooners over Smurfs

17-5
WVU over Ga-Tech
Cinci over WMU

18-4
CMU over MTSU
Jesuits swallow Seamen

19-4
Rice over the Men of Troy

19-3
Tennessee over The Pennsylvania State University
LSU over ND
An Ohio State University over Gaytors

20-2
USC over Houston
Louisville over Wake
Texas Tech over Minnehaha
Hokies neuter uga

21-1
O-State over Mizzou
ucla over The Other FSU
RU over K-State

22-1
USF over ECU
Hawaii over AZ-State

22-0
Clemson over Kentucky
Texas over Iowa

So the five of you who pick Tech to win might want to read this story.

GaTech QB rule ineligible for Gator Bowl

Additionally a starting CB in out too.

Should you change your minds (and you have plenty of time to do so) -- lemme know.

Scary that he got all the way to his senior year and became academically ineligible. By the time most people get to their senior year, they've either LONG flunked out, or else have built up some padding where a bad semester won't hurt.

Thanks Ducks -- 0-2 start for me. C'mon Men of Troy -- beat them, uh, Owls.

Thomas got in the contest -- a tad late, but in nonetheless.

[I have to admit I've watched none of the Bowls thus far.]

This may not be as big an advantage for WVU as people might think. Pat White is still hobbled with a sprained ankle which kept him out of the Rutgers game and Slaton suffered a deep thigh bruise in practice earlier this week. Both will probably play, but won't be 100 percent.

Two amazing comebacks for Oregon State and Texas Tech.

I had already marked those games down as wrong picks for me and, lo and behold, two phenomenal comebacks gave me two correct picks. Only Clemson ruined a perfect Friday for me. How did they lose to Kentucky???

I think the Kentucky win is the biggest surprise so far

I didn't even realize they made it to a bowl game this year

The bowls have certainly gotten more interesting in the past couple of days. There have been some great games with wild finishes. Oregon State's decision to go for a 2-point conversion was gutsy! And the way Navy blew it against Boston College was pretty shocking.

Tonight's bowl game will be an interesting one... if for no other reason than seeing a team like Miami going from 80-degree weather to Boise, where the game-time temp is supposed to be 29 degrees! When Fresno State and Virginia played in the MPC Computers Bowl game two years ago, at least they had the sense to schedule it as an afternoon game. A night game in Boise in late December? Ouch.

Nevada was robbed against Miami. I can't believe how poor those Conference USA officials were. For those who missed it, Nevada was driving midway thru the 4th quarter and faced a 3rd-and-10 from the Miami 28-yard line. Nevada QB Jeff Rowe threw a pass to receiver Anthony Pudewell that was caught by Pudewell at the 4-yard line in a dramatic and juggling catch where the ball bounced off a defender, but the officials ruled it incomplete. Nevada challenged the call, ESPN replayed it probably 15 times and the ESPN announcing crew said it was a no-brainer that the call would be overturned because it was obviously a catch. After much delay, the C-USA crew refused to overturn the call and Nevada settled for a FG to make it 21-20. And that's how the game ended. I guess Miami has had its share of calls go against them in bowl history but it's still not fair.

At least the poor officiating didn't go unnoticed since the play was shown and talked about on Sportscenter and even made the AP game story.

saw it.......I suppose the videos weren't conclusive enough in their minds, then again they may not have looked at all of the angles that ESPN showed. While it did seem to be a catch it certainly took a heck of a lot of camera angles to see that with some level of certainty. Far more than what is usually needed.

In preparation for tonight's bowl game, here's the stat of the day (courtesy of the badger board):

Now that Troy, South Florida, San Jose State and Central Michigan have won their bowl games 85 teams have combined for 285 Bowl victories since Notre Dame last won a bowl game.

Western Michigan and The Ohio University still to play.

With but three Bowls left, I thought I'd post the standings to date:

23-6
TheOtherFSU
Gymmountaineer

21-8
CougarFan
Go Monica!
SCTrojan
theosdadddy
zeno

20-9
Ill RepUTE
jerseyguy
mdphl
meric
SoFlaSpartan
wierdblackdog

19-10
itsplaytym
PCC
Purdue Fan
The B Man

18-11
MiamiDr
psulionstorm07
Thomas

17-12
DCBucky

15-14
Hwkpride
softballstud

14-15
blueraider

Oh my.

As it always should, it looks like it'll come down to the big Cincinnati-Western Michigan clash, which is now less than 48 hours away.

"Its On"

My last 3 pics:

Cincy
Southern Miss
Ohio State by 10 ( tie breaker)

And me...

1. Cincy
2. Southern Miss
3. OSU by... 11

So, essentially we will tie for 1st place since our last three picks are the same.

That means the tie breaker is used to to determine the winner.

If Ohio State wins by 11 points or more, you win. If Ohio State wins by 10 points or less, I win.



Ok, here is a Question to ponder. Who wins if Southern Miss and Cincy prevail, yet Florida wins? Would I win the tie breaker since my prediction is closer to the final score or does the tie breaker not count since Ohio State lost?

DcBucky?

21-8???

damn Oklahoma and the damn Chokies as well!

and I didn't pick San Jose State like I should have

but I can happily say I didn't pick Notre Lame!

At least Florida State and Kentucky hosed nearly all of us!

For the second year in a row, I'm one of a verrrrrry few people to pick the upset in the championship game, and I STILL FAIL to win the overall picks. Grooooooaaan.

I had a very strong feeling Florida would win, but I imagined it was going to be a lot closer.

damn Suckeyes losing to the Gators

@#$%@$#%

I feel ya but I'll still take my 24-8 record ... almost!!

Hmm... so I tie with Mountaineer for the win? Hmm... and since we both picked Ohio State, I'm guessing the only fair way to pick a true winner would be to see how our records stacked up in the BCS games. That's fair, right Bucky?

Or just give it to me since I was perfect in the BCS games! By the way, how scary is it that we were this close to a Michigan / Ohio State rematch for the national title?

A Michigan-OSU rematch would have been horrendous... but that shows how much we need a playoff. We came thisclose to that rematch happening, and after seeing both of their bowl performances, it's pretty clear that neither was deserving of a national title. I would love to see Boise State play Florida because I honestly think the Broncos would win. The Broncos got a #1 vote in the final AP poll, by the way. Congrats on getting your BCS picks right, CougarFan.

I didn't see this until today. My thought is, yes, since GymMountaineer's prediction of a d'OSU 10 point win is closer to reality than TheOtherFSU's 11 point win, that he wins the tiebreaker.

Also -- huge apology here -- but I seem to do this every election season. My my damn Diebold-like machine miscalculated (I must have imported if from the State of Florida).

I had Clemson beating Kentucky in my spreadsheet, not the other way around (my little brain couldn't fathom the Mildcats actually winning a bowl game, I guess).

So I recounted and had to deduct a point from almost everyone --all but one contestant chose Clemson, and he finished a bit down in the pack. But, again, sorry I mucked it up.

So GymMountaineer and TheOtherFSU tie for the lead.

And via tiebreaker, GymMountaineer wins the Bowl portion of the Pick'em.

24-8
Gymmountaineer
TheOtherFSU

23-9
CougarFan
mdphl

22-10
SCTrojan
SoFlaSpartan
theosdadddy
zeno

21-11
Go Monica!
Ill RepUTE
jerseyguy
PCC
The B Man

20-12
meric
Thomas
wierdblackdog

19-13
itsplaytym
Purdue Fan

18-14
DCBucky
MiamiDr
psulionstorm07

16-16
softballstud

15-17
Hwkpride

14-18
blueraider

Thanks for doing this all season Bucky!

2 West Virginia fans ( Jersey Guy and TheoDaddy) win the regular season College Pic'em and I win the Bowl Pic'em.

Just another reason why MoutainEER fans are the best

Well the odds are in your favor. Half this board is West Virginia fans. You all have a convention?

Not only do we have a convention, but once a month we gather at a very secret location, paint ourselves blue and gold, pledge allegiance to Rich Rodriguez, sing "Country Roads" and chant "Let's Goooooooo Mountaineers...Let's Gooooooo Mountaineers.....Let's Gooooooo Drink Some Beers..." See you at the next meeting, Theodaddy, Derby and GymMountainEER.

I'm sure you're leaving something out of your convention rituals ....