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Monday Afternoon Open Thread

By Big Tent Democrat

College football bowl season has started and I have some selections. I'll be doing New Years Day bowl selections on, um, New Years Day. Here are this week's (through Sunday) pre-New Years Day Bowl picks:

Louisville (-2) over S. Miss in the St. Petersburg Bowl (yes, we can't have a college football playoff because the St. Petersburg Bowl MUST be saved).

Boise St. (-17) (5 units) over Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl (every city must HAVE a bowl!), this is my best bet of the pre-New Years Day bowls because (1) Boise has a great team and (2) they are mightily po'd over blowing their season at Nevada AND (3) po'd that Utah has bolted the Mountain West for the Pac 10 (BYU bolted to be the Mormon version of Notre Dame without the national interest and TCU bolted to join the Big East . . . the Big East? Really?) just when adding Boise State would have made the Mountain West an AQ conference for BCC purposes.

Navy (+5) over hometown San Diego State in the Poinsetta Bowl (why not the San Diego Bowl you ask? Good question).

Hawaii (-10) (3 units) over Tulsa in the, yep, Hawaii Bowl (how is Hawaii going to lose the Hawaii Bowl?).

And, finally, the Granddaddy of all the pre-New Years Day bowls, the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, in Detroit, where I pick the mighty Florida International University Golden Panthers (Even) over the Toledo Rockets.

Yep, gotta save the bowl system. No playoffs for you! college football. Pizza! Pizza!

Open Thread.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).