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| Temple vs. Wyoming |  |
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| Ohio vs. Utah State |  |
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| San Diego State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette |  |
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| Florida International vs. Marshall |  |
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| TCU vs. Louisiana Tech |  |
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| Arizona State vs. Boise State |  |
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| Nevada vs. Southern Miss |  |
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| Missouri vs. North Carolina |  |
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| Western Michigan vs. Purdue |  |
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| Louisville vs. North Carolina State |  |
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| Toledo vs. Air Force |  |
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| Cal vs. Texas |  |
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| Florida State vs. Notre Dame |  |
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| Washington vs. Baylor |  |
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| BYU vs. Tulsa |  |
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| Rutgers vs. Iowa State |  |
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| Mississippi State vs. Wake Forest |  |
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| Iowa vs. Oklahoma |  |
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| Texas A&M vs. Northwestern |  |
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| Georgia Tech vs. Utah |  |
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| Cincy vs. Vanderbilt |  |
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| Illinois vs. UCLA |  |
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| Virginia vs. Auburn |  |
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| Houston vs. Penn State |  |
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| Michigan State vs. Georgia |  |
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| Nebraska vs. South Carolina |  |
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| Ohio State vs. Florida |  |
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| Wisconsin vs. Oregon |  |
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| Stanford vs. Oklahoma State |  |
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| Michigan vs. Virginia Tech |  |
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| West Virginia vs. Clemson |  |
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| Kansas State vs. Arkansas |  |
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| SMU vs. Pitt |  |
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| Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois |  |
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| Alabama vs. LSU |  |
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SEASON STATS | 222-79 | 228-73 | 231-70 | 237-64 | 235-66 | 230-71 | 237-64 | 161-140 |
Now meet the staff, put a face with the name and see who it is that makes the picks each week!
Dan Deceuster, aka Sloppy JoeDan is the founder of College Football Cafeteria. He loves to watch college football any chance he can get. That national championship between Texas and USC in 2005 still ranks as his favorite game ever. He even got DVR just for the replay functionality. He works in internet marketing and is happily married.
Scot Clark, aka Sir AscotScot hails from the midwest and is the unofficial #1 fan of BYU Rugby (see his website). He also loves college football and would watch it all day if he could. The sheer excitement of the game, especially when rooting for the underdog, as well as the drama of the national rankings and BCS system gets him going more than anything.
Isaac Christensen, aka IkeWhile the beautiful game (a.k.a. soccer for the ignorant) is at the top of his totem pole, he has plenty of passion for America’s version of football, too. He especially enjoys disproving idiotic arguments made by pro-BCS morons. His favorite college football moment was Beck to Harline in 2006.
Favorites (Higher ranked team)Ok, so any person who wants to can make official predictions each week and do just fine by simply picking the favorite in each matchup. Well, we hope to prove we are better than simply picking the favorite. So each week the Favorites pick will simply be the higher ranked team. If simply picking the favorite each week does better than our picks, we’ll know we suck.
Craig Clark, aka Papi ChuloFormer All-American Rugby player Craig enjoys anything with bone crushing hits. He prefers the raw power of rugby to football, but always enjoys a good football game. Like everyone, he favors an altered postseason. But unlike anyone, his career as a financial adviser gives him an insight into the financial effects of changing the BCS.
Darren Hinton, aka The ScholarDarren loves college football, as well as about 250 other sports you probably never heard of. Anyone else know who won last year’s annual haystack castle tournament in Australia? Didn’t think so. Darren is the winner of our inaugural season of predictions and is looking to regain his former glory this year and take the crown back from Ike, our most recent champion from last year.
Andrew McDowell, aka BonesBones hails from North Carolina, a state which unfortunately suffers from a bad case of basketball addiction. He likes history, Virginia Tech football, sarcasm, watching Southern Cal lose, and postseason reform. Bones currently works as a teacher, which might explain all the frustration present in his posts.
Abe, aka Penny PicksSince the face of the penny is honest Abe, the Penny Picks should be spot on- since Abe can’t lie, we flip a penny for each game to decide an arbitrary winner. Heads means home team, tails means road team. We’ll compare our picks to this baseline to see if we’re all just better off flipping a coin than offering any of our “expert” insight.
Think our picks are awful? Think we are on the money? Tell us about it in the comments. If we agree with you, we may even change some of our picks before the games start. We always love feedback!
Comments
Out of the 35 bowl games, Darren and I have 18 picks that are different. It’s going to be a wild ride!!
In retrospect, Cal and Virginia probably weren’t the smartest picks, but hey, worth a shot.
Pretty easy to say “Oh you should have picked this!” after the games have already been played. Thanks, moron. Tell you what, we’ll do what you do and pick who wins after the game is over. Then we’ll all be 100%!! Now if you had made that comment before the games were played, we might give you some credibility.
Please tell me why you guys have a website, Boise State is gone, and Stanford is the most overrated team in the top 10, they have not played any one good this year and almost got beat by USC, you guys really need to find a day job.
My vote is for Abe to pick the same as everyone when everyone picks the same team. You should only flip a coin when predictions vary. Then I think Abe would be a lot more competitive. Honestly, let’s give Abe some credibility! Who’s going to pick Washington St over Oregon?
Could you help me make my own prediction table like the one at the top of the page? I have my own blog that I’m working on and that would be cool if you could help me.
@Sloppy Joe You just might be right … I’m still debating if I want to continue picking the underdogs or take the picks more seriously and really try to compete …
But then the predictions matrix would just look the same in each column … and that would be über lame!
I’m thinking I’ll have to be a bit more judicious next week .. but not too much so! 
Great site, like your predictions. Will start to keep track this season, check out thesocialgambler think your team will like it.
jay
I know this is a bit late, but ALL HAIL THE CHAMPION!!! Boo yeah, you guys can just call me The Janitor, since I’m all about the sweeping!
Hey will you guys pick all season next year? I just found the site this bowl season and I must say it has helped me out a lot. Also I have to disagree with the majority taking Oregon in the big game. Although I am a student at the University of Alabama so Can Newton has caused me enough headaches this year and I have had to hear how good he Ia eveverywhere I go I think I may have started to believe it. However for some reason I see the Auburn defense rising to the occasion and making some key stops to make Auburn the national champions. Man that was hard to say with the Crimson and White running through my blood.
“how most of you picked TCU over UW I’ll never agree with….watch as UW rolls over the small and weaker TCU D line, and don;t give me that, “they are smaller and faster” excuse”
- A user comment from Christmas Eve
Not to be a jerk, but would you like to re-think that statement, sir?
Yeah, that’s what I meant, Ike. I just have trouble reading charts. And words. Charts with words on them are pretty much a waking nightmare for me.
how most of you picked TCU over UW I’ll never agree with….watch as UW rolls over the small and weaker TCU D line, and don;t give me that, “they are smaller and faster” excuse…Miami was faster last year and UW smashed them in the mouth
Mathematically I can’t catch you, Ike. We only differ on 9 games, so the best I can do is tie you. Darren and Scot are the only ones who can stop the “Ike Train.” This season.
Wow, four games left and Ike and Darren are tied up. This thing is going down to the wire. Maybe the BCS championship will have some meaning after all…at least in determining our 2011 predictions champion.