OK, we’re in it until the end. Yes, we survived conference championship week with a 4-3 mark that benefited from Stanford’s late touchdown run to soar past the total. We also lost on Florida’s late cosmic touchdown that covered the number through the backdoor.
And though we are more than a full week from round one of the bowl madness – which starts Dec. 19 – we thought, why not continue the Fab 4 picks? People still are looking for entertainment even if the regular slate of games is not available.
Alas.
With that, let’s take this trio of entertainment risks and know that we are really reaching for something entertaining here. That’s code for the simple truth that we are not as confident in the Football Championship Subdivision rolls as our normal list of suggestions. Think of it this way: Have you ever gone to a movie but said movie is sold out, and then you look around and you’re not super sure about the rest of the choices, but you pick one anyway? That situation can lead you to “Sideways” or “Disorderlies,” and the roll of the dice is really beyond your control.
That said, going into bowl season (we will trot out the bowl contest tomorrow, deal?) we are a smudge under 60 percent this year against the spread. We are most proud of the fact that we went through the entire season and had only two weeks in which we were on the negative side of entertainment.