Make Bowl Games Great Again
It’s New Years Eve and Big Dobs is ending the year on a positive, a big time positive.
After starting off a completely unsustainable 12-0-1 on bowl games (see twitter @BigDobs82 for timestamp of picks), Dobs Nation has come back to earth a bit with some pretty big misses on Colorado, Florida, and the OK State/Miami under. These were only slightly offset by small wins on Wisconsin and Ok St. -1.
Bowl record to Date: 14-3-1 - granted some off my losses were multi unit bets so I’m more like 14-7-1, still, very positive.
Enough pillow talk, let’s get onto the games:
Highest Conviction:
Army +7 vs West Virginia & 1st Half Army +3.5:
Guess how many opt-outs Army is going to have for this game? I take the military blind in bowl games every year. Bowl games are about motivation and preparation. Look it up, the Black Knights win outright. There is no chance WVU covers this game.
3 Team ML Parlay: San Jose State, Clemson & Texas A&M ~+140
None of these teams is losing. If you really want to hedge, take Ball State +10, but I love this bet.
The First Half Winners:
In addition to Army +3.5 Dobs Nation is on:
Clemson -4 & Bama -11.5
Best of the Rest - Dobs has all of these games at these lines:
Miss. St. +2 - big time let down spot for Tulsa, it’s top defensive player opted out. Since when do Tulsa players opt out of bowl games? Miss. State is turning a corner and this is statement game heading into next year.
Auburn +3.5 - let down for Northwestern, I love fading the teams that lose in their conference championships (though I didn’t follow this advice with Florida). NW has a bunch of opt outs on offense, and it’s offense already sucks.
Oregon +4 - let’s also fade Iowa State off their conf. championship loss, and Oregon is picking up steam.
Texas A&M -7.5 - F you UNC
No Conviction, no action (yet) - watch twitter
Kentucky vs NC State - useless game
Georgia vs Cincinnati - lean Georgia but I have been a Cin. fan boy all year.
Good luck everyone, and Happy New Year.