It is May. Time to record bowl predictions.
1.) National Championship. I don't see the UW getting into the top 4 this year as the PAC champion. Too bad, because if they made it, it would free up another affiliated bowl for the PAC.
2.) Rose. Not a semi-final venue this year, so the PAC champion is the likely pick. UW to play here.
3.) Alamo. USC. USC will win the south and lose the conference championship. Probably have second fewest losses in the PAC (behind UW) after cleaning up in a mediocre south.
4.) Holiday. Stanford. Easy choice. Good chance they will beat USC head to head, but will manage to drop enough games overall (the north looks tougher than the south) that their record won't be as good as SC's.
5.) Foster Farms. UCLA. Will squeak by with 2nd in the south, and this bowl would like to have them, despite the poor crowd for the last UCLA Foster Farms. Chip will get folks to travel in his first year, despite the notoriously crummy weather in San Francisco in late December.
6.) Vegas. WSU. We will squeak past Oregon in the north and will be in Vegas with 3rd in the north and 8 wins, helped by a favorable home schedule. For the sake of the doubters, beating Oregon makes 8 wins pretty realistic.
7.) Cactus. Arizona. I've previously predicted that they miss a bowl and ASU will go to one, but have changed my mind. UA will manage 7 wins after beating ASU and Phoenix/Cactus will take the home state team based on a very big crowd for the game and lots of people visiting from out of town to stay overnight, many for 2-3 nights.
Oregon will probably have 7 wins and feel a bit snubbed by the Cactus. They will end up in another bowl game somewhere, either against a 6 win P5 team or somebody like Toledo with 9 wins.
In the south, ASU, Utah and Colorado will all commit mutual suicide, beating each other and preventing each other from reaching the post season. In the north, Cal and OSU won't make it.
1.) National Championship. I don't see the UW getting into the top 4 this year as the PAC champion. Too bad, because if they made it, it would free up another affiliated bowl for the PAC.
2.) Rose. Not a semi-final venue this year, so the PAC champion is the likely pick. UW to play here.
3.) Alamo. USC. USC will win the south and lose the conference championship. Probably have second fewest losses in the PAC (behind UW) after cleaning up in a mediocre south.
4.) Holiday. Stanford. Easy choice. Good chance they will beat USC head to head, but will manage to drop enough games overall (the north looks tougher than the south) that their record won't be as good as SC's.
5.) Foster Farms. UCLA. Will squeak by with 2nd in the south, and this bowl would like to have them, despite the poor crowd for the last UCLA Foster Farms. Chip will get folks to travel in his first year, despite the notoriously crummy weather in San Francisco in late December.
6.) Vegas. WSU. We will squeak past Oregon in the north and will be in Vegas with 3rd in the north and 8 wins, helped by a favorable home schedule. For the sake of the doubters, beating Oregon makes 8 wins pretty realistic.
7.) Cactus. Arizona. I've previously predicted that they miss a bowl and ASU will go to one, but have changed my mind. UA will manage 7 wins after beating ASU and Phoenix/Cactus will take the home state team based on a very big crowd for the game and lots of people visiting from out of town to stay overnight, many for 2-3 nights.
Oregon will probably have 7 wins and feel a bit snubbed by the Cactus. They will end up in another bowl game somewhere, either against a 6 win P5 team or somebody like Toledo with 9 wins.
In the south, ASU, Utah and Colorado will all commit mutual suicide, beating each other and preventing each other from reaching the post season. In the north, Cal and OSU won't make it.
