The 2005/2006 NCAA bowl season starts off a little slow as a lot of 6 win teams face off in mid-December. Hard to get excited Southern Missippi versus Arkansas State. Heck I didn’t even know there was an Arkansas State. The matchups get better after Christmas as everything builds towards the epic Texas – USC matchup in the Rose Bowl. Should be entertaining to watch 28 teams try to end the year with a win. Be on the lookout for more detailed previews from Bevo Sports for most of the games.
Here’s our picks for all the bowl games both straight up and against the spread:
| Brian | Matt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straight | Spread | Straight | Spread | |
| New Orleans Bowl Southern Miss vs. Arkansas St. Dec. 20 @ 7pm, Spread: ASU +15 |
USM | ASU | USM | ASU |
| GMAC Bowl Toledo vs. UTEP Dec. 21 @ 7pm, Spread: UTEP +3 |
UTEP | UTEP | Toledo | Toledo |
| Las Vegas Bowl BYU vs. California Dec. 22 @ 7pm, Spread: Cal -7.5 |
Cal | BYU | Cal | BYU |
| Poinsettia Bowl Colorado St. vs. Navy Dec. 22 @ 9:30pm, Spread: Navy -3 |
CSU | CSU | CSU | CSU |
| Fort Worth Bowl Houston vs. Kansas Dec. 23 @ 7pm, Spread: Kansas -3 |
KU | KU | KU | KU |
| Hawaii Bowl Central Florida vs. Nevada Dec. 24 @ 7:30pm, Spread: Nev. -2 |
Nevada | Nevada | Nevada | Nevada |
| Motor City Bowl Akron vs. Memphis Dec. 26 @ 3pm, Spread: Memphis -5 |
Memphis | Memphis | Memphis | Akron |
| Champs Sports Bowl (23) Clemson vs. Colorado Dec. 27 @ 4pm, Spread: Colorado +8 |
Colorado | Colorado | Clemson | Clemson |
| Insight Bowl Arizona St. vs. Rutgers Dec. 27 @ 7:30pm, Spread: RU +11 |
ASU | Rutgers | ASU | Rutgers |
| MPC Computers Bowl (19) B.C. vs. Boise St. Dec. 28 @ 3:30pm, Spread: BSU +1.5 |
B.C. | B.C. | B.C. | B.C. |
| Alamo Bowl (20) Michigan vs. Nebraska Dec. 28 @ 7pm, Spread: NU +11.5 |
Mich. | Mich. | Mich. | Mich. |
| Emerald Bowl (24) Ga. Tech vs. Utah Dec. 29 @ 3:30pm, Spread: Utah +9 |
GT | Utah | ||
| Holiday Bowl (6) Oregon vs. Oklahoma Dec. 29 @ 7pm, Spread: OU +3 |
OU | OU | OU | OU |
| Music City Bowl Virginia vs. Minnesota Dec. 30 @ 11am, Spread: Minn. -6 |
Minn. | Virginia | Minn. | Minn. |
| Sun Bowl Northwestern vs. (17) UCLA Dec. 30 @ 1pm, Spread: UCLA -3 |
NW | NW | NW | NW |
| Independence Bowl S. Carolina vs. Missouri Dec. 30 @ 2:30pm, Spread: MU +4 |
Mizzou | Mizzou | Mizzou | Mizzou |
| Peach Bowl (9) Miami vs. (10) LSU Dec. 30 @ 6:30pm, Spread: LSU +7 |
Miami | Miami | Miami | Miami |
| Meineke Car Care Bowl S. Florida vs. NC State Dec. 31 @ 10am, Spread: NCSt -3.5 |
NC State | NC State | ||
| Liberty Bowl Fresno St. vs. Tulsa Dec. 31 @ 12pm, Spread: UT +7.5 |
Tulsa | Tulsa | ||
| Houston Bowl (14) TCU vs. Iowa St. Dec. 31 @ 1:30pm, Spread: ISU +3 |
Iowa St. | Iowa St. | ||
| Cotton Bowl (18) Texas Tech vs. (13) Alabama Jan. 2 @ 10am, Spread: UA +3.5 |
Tech | Tech | ||
| Outback Bowl (25) Iowa vs. (16) Florida Jan. 2 @ 10am, Spread: UF -1.5 |
Florida | Florida | ||
| Gator Bowl (15) Louisville vs. (12) Va. Tech Jan. 2 @ 11:30am, Spread: VT -8.5 |
Va. Tech | Louisville | ||
| Capital One Bowl (21) Wisconsin vs. (7) Auburn Jan. 2 @ 12pm, Spread: AU -10.5 |
Auburn | Auburn | ||
| Fiesta Bowl (5) Notre Dame vs. (4) Ohio St. Jan. 2 @ 3:30pm, Spread: OSU -4.5 |
Ohio St. | Ohio St. | ||
| Sugar Bowl (11) W. Virginia vs. (8) Georgia Jan. 2 @ 7:30pm, Spread: UGA -6.5 |
Georgia | Georgia | ||
| Orange Bowl (3) Penn St. vs. (22) Florida St. Jan. 3 @ 7pm, Spread: FSU +10 |
Penn St. | Penn St. | ||
| Rose Bowl (1) Southern Cal vs. (2) Texas Jan. 4 @ 7pm, Spread: UT +7.5 |
Texas | Texas | ||
reply to #1
Matt
December 21st, 2005 at 11:59 pm
Easy money with Toledo, easy money.
reply to #2
Brian
December 27th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
Man that shanked extra point by the UCF kicker must have really killed all the people that took Nevada -2. Ouch.