Louisville safety Calvin Pryor (25) causes Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel (6) to fumble the ball during the second half of the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in New Orleans. Louisville recovered and scored on the next play. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)Remember Friday’s mailbag and to do randomly nice things for others.
From the “Talks too much” studios, let’s make the magic happen.
Bowl pickings
OK, we have our front-runner for the heavy favorite that showed up unmotivated and undisciplined. Congrats Florida, you just made USC and Lane Kiffin say, “Yeah, we didn’t show up but we were in the Sun Bowl for crying out loud. They stunk up the Sugar Bowl for crying out loud.”
We had convinced ourselves that Florida was going to be preseason top five next year, and that could still be the case, but coach Will “Boom” Muschamp and his totem pole look of indifference in the first half did not instill confidence. We backed the Gators by 14 and the over 47 to fall to 31-14 in bowl picks against the spread, and we know someone who backed our picks and turned the game off pretty early after Louisville built a 14-0 lead as the Gators made a series of dumb plays on third down.