The 2006-07 vessel season kicked off Tuesday with the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, which TCU won 37-7 all over Northern Illinois, and ends on Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz., near the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game.
In all, 32 bowl games will be contend over cardinal weeks. Starting Dec. 26, nearby will be a most minuscule one halt for nine expressionless days, so bettors will deprivation to be well-prepared head into all the goings-on.
Here are a few handicapping pointers to get you started:
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Respect the Ability to Win, But Consider Strength of Schedule
This is the classic NCAA debate, whether in football\\'s bowl period or basketball\\'s March Madness. Should a squad with a stronger transcription from a weaker meeting be preferred terminated a edge with a weaker dictation from a stronger conference? Or, vice-versa?
Take the Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24, for occurrence. This one has Hawaii (10-3) pet by a score complete Arizona State (7-5).
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The big yarn from a publicity view is Hawaii QB Colt Brennan, who finished in a tie for 2nd lay aft Ohio State\\'s Troy Smith for the Associated Press college football Player of the Year. He likewise needs freshly one TD go beyond Sunday to tie the NCAA single-season mark of 54 set by Houston\\'s David Klingler in 1990.
Brennan\\'s playing led the Warriors to their leaders regular-season text since 2002. Of course, it helped that his squad vie just one graded challenger all period. That was at Boise State and it was a 41-34 loss. Not that his five- and six-TD performances in opposition the likes of New Mexico State (4-8) and Utah State (1-11), respectively, weren\\'t impressive, but the jealousy was not.
Conversely, that was no creampuff programme the Sun Devils moon-faced. Three of ASU\\'s financial loss came in opposition stratified opponents California, Oregon and USC. The remaining two defeats came in opposition the one and only teams in the country to crush USC: UCLA and Oregon State.
Brennan\\'s closing outing, opposed to Oregon State on Dec. 2, saw the Beavers use blitzes and stunts to rack up six sacks and oblige him into individual bad throws, which enclosed two interceptions. Oregon State won 35-32 as 9-point underdogs.
Watch for Line Moves
Since more of the teams up to his neck in the bowl bonanza aren\\'t of the high-profile variety, there\\'s oftentimes a marvellous deal of chemical property in the lines that oddsmakers unbind.
Remember that vessel games are elegant to bettors in monstrous member because they\\'re on TV, not because of the teams implicated. Let\\'s honourable say a regular-season, non-televised matchup concerning Utah and Tulsa would outline a lot little act than Saturday\\'s Armed Forces Bowl relating the two sides, which will be shown to a political unit audience on ESPN. Simply put, it\\'s not precisely assured for sportsbooks to forebode how their trade will counter to a smudge involving non-football plant schools.
There have once been several notable column moves. In Thursday\\'s Las Vegas Bowl, BYU staring as a 6-point favourite ended Oregon. The Cougars have since been colourless to -3.5.
It\\'s not rightful sides that move, either; it\\'s totals, too. The initial figure of 58 is now 63.
Bettors hoping to get the most select figure involve to pay fame to formation moves. If the play you close to starts effort worse, fixing it in, because it\\'s less predictable to locomote wager on than sustenance going. And that way if it starts feat better, reckon ready a miniature longer. Your moderation strength a short time ago buy a component or two.
Happy to Be There or Not?
At best schools, acceptance a bowl bid is solid news. Of course, furthermost schools don\\'t have the contact sport routine of a Florida State.
The Seminoles have won two political unit championships (1993 and 1999), and finished in the top cardinal of the AP Poll for a remarkable 14 straight-faced eld from 1987 through with 2000. As always, big material possession were awaited over again in 2006. The Seminoles were fixed a season top-ranking of No. 10 in the Coaches Poll and No. 11 in the AP Poll.
It never happened for the \\'Noles, in spite of this. Early losings to Clemson and NC State put a snatched end to any political unit description hopes. Now, at 6-6, they brainstorm themselves in the Emerald Bowl on Dec. 27 antagonistic UCLA (-4.5). It\\'s not the features of halting skipper coach Bobby Bowden promised his recruits when they signed up for the system of rules.
\\"It may not be the bowl winter sport you considered necessary to go to,\\" footballer Buster Davis told USA Today. \\"But going 6-6, that\\'s what happens.\\"
\\"At smallest possible it will be a several thing,\\" Bowden aforementioned. \\"We haven\\'t been out westernmost since the Fiesta Bowl.\\"
Gee, can you cognizance the excitement?
Last time period in the Emerald Bowl, it was a thwarted Georgia Tech squad that showed up to play Utah after a loss to Wake Forest in the ACC competition halt. Despite existence 9-point favorites, the Yellow Jackets squandered 38-10
\\"We weren\\'t genuinely that entertained to be out in San Francisco across the country,\\" running back Mike Cox admitted to Associated Press.
As for FSU\\'s opponents, the Bruins have won three in a row and are future off a giant frighten of crosstown competitor USC. Plenty of students and alumni are convinced to be in the stand to shop at their side, which makes it fairly improbable UCLA will come in out lying face down.