Ever join a Bowl Confidence Pool with college football?
The experience can be a lot of fun, especially for those who love games of chance … and have already been eliminated from their respective fantasy football leagues.
Of course, unlike posting a routine starting lineup with fantasy, Bowl Confidence pools command a greater chunk of one’s prep time, predicting the winner of 40 college bowls — and then specifying their order of hubris, ranking each supposed outcome from 40 (highest of confidence) to 1 (lowest confidence of being correct).
BATSBY Sports offers up its Bowl Confidence selections for the 2019 slate of games (minus the College Football Playoff championship on Jan. 13), factoring in injuries and NFL draft-related absences with certain college stars:
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: TAKE IT TO THE BANK
NEW ORLEANS: Appalachian State over UAB
ORANGE: Florida over Virginia
PEACH: LSU over Oklahoma
GASPARILLA: UCF over Marshall
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: FEELING GOOD
FIRST RESPONDER: Western Kentucky over Western Michigan
BAHAMAS: Buffalo over Charlotte
SUN: Arizona State over Florida State
CITRUS: Alabama over Michigan
BIRMINGHAM: Cincinnati over Boston College
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: REASONABLY SURE
SUGAR: Georgia over Baylor
FRISCO: Utah State over Kent State
QUICK LANE: Pittsburgh vs. Eastern Michigan
CELEBRATION: North Carolina A&T over Alcorn State
BOCA RATON: SMU over Florida Atlantic
CURE: Georgia Southern over Liberty
ARIZONA: Wyoming over Georgia State
COTTON: Penn State over Memphis
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: CAN’T GO WRONG-ISH
CAMELLIA: Arkansas State over Florida International
HAWAII: BYU over Hawaii
BELK: Kentucky over Virginia Tech
LIBERTY: Navy over Kansas State
CHEEZ-IT: Air Force over Washington State
CAMPING WORLD: Notre Dame over Iowa State
INDEPENDENCE: Miami over Louisiana Tech
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: HOPING FOR THE BEST
PINSTRIPE: Michigan State over Wake Forest
MOBILE: Louisiana-Lafayette over Miami of Ohio
TEXAS: Texas A&M over Oklahoma State
REDBOX: California over Illinois
FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO: Ohio over Nevada
NEW MEXICO: San Diego State over Central Michigan
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: IT’S CRAPSHOOT TIME
ALAMO: Utah (-7) over Texas
GATOR: Indiana (+1.5) over Tennessee
MUSIC CITY: Louisville (+4.5) over Mississippi State
LAS VEGAS: Boise State (+3.5) over Washington
HOLIDAY: Iowa (-2) over USC
OUTBACK: Auburn (-7) over Minnesota
ARMED FORCES: Southern Miss (+7) over Tulane
MILITARY: North Carolina (-4.5) over Temple
CONFIDENCE LEVEL: VIRTUAL COIN FLIPS
FIESTA: Ohio State (+2) over Clemson
ROSE: Wisconsin (-2.5) over Oregon