Bowl Confidence Contest

**When emailing your picks -- please include your name in the text of the email

Last year I had a Bowl Confidence Contest that generated a lot of interest on our site and we had hundreds and hundreds of entries. Congratulations again to last year's champion Wade Hotsenpiller who accumulated 483 points or 81% of the points available. Had Oklahoma won the National Title game then Larry Grossman would have taken home the award. Bob Kwatnez tied with Larry for second place at 479 points. Last year I was at a disadvantage as I posted my plays first and they were up for everyone to see before they made their plays but I was pleased to finish #15 in the contest with 450 total points. If you followed my forecasts on the site last year I hit 24 of the 34 bowls for 71%.

This year we will again have a “Bowl Confidence Contest” and I hope there will be even more participants! It is free to join and like last year I will update two categories after each bowl game. The first category is total points. If you picked a team and they won their bowl you receive the points that you risked. Sometimes the early leaders are the ones that risked the most on the early bowls and they fall by the wayside as the contest goes on. Sometimes the early leaders in this category will remain at the top through it all it all. I will also keep track of those that have the best win percentage of their points. The morning after each bowl game I will list the current leaders in two categories on the website. Like last year we will have great prizes with 1st place getting $250!! 2nd place receives $100 and a set of regional magazines and 3rd place $50 and a set of regionals!!

You can enter the contest by simply copying and pasting the chart below into a word or excel file. Just pick who you think will win each of the remaining 32 bowl games. You then award your confidence points to each game. The team you think will definitely win the game would get 34 points and the team who you picked at the bottom which was very tough for you to call would get 3 (the New Mexico Bowl and St Petersburg Bowl have been assigned your #1 and #2 votes). Please keep the bowl games in order, so we can have them updated quickly. After you are done filling out the chart just copy it and paste it into an email and then email it along with your contact information to Brandon@philsteele.com. For each team that wins their bowl game that you picked correctly, you get the confidence points you assigned to them. Those with the highest points are the winners.The first bowl game have kicked off -- make sure to enter TODAY! Good Luck!!

WHEN SUBMITTING PICKS PLEASE SUBMIT IN THE ORDER THAT APPEARS BELOW!!
**When emailing your picks -- please include your name in the text of the email

With three games gone, please number the remaining bowl games from #34 to #4.

 
      YOUR NAME:    
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Date
 Bowl Game TEAM VS TEAM Pick
PTS
1)
Dec. 19
 New Mexico Wyoming vs  Fresno St Wyoming
0
2)
Dec. 19
 St Petersburg UCF vs  Rutgers Rutgers
0
3)
Dec. 20
 New Orleans Mid Tenn vs  S Miss MTSU
0

Rank the remaining 31 Bowls (from #34 to #4)
 
      YOUR NAME:
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Date
 Bowl Game TEAM VS TEAM Pick PTS
4)
Dec. 22
 Las Vegas BYU vs   Oregon St
5)
Dec. 23
 Poinsettia Utah vs   California
6)
Dec. 24
 Hawaii SMU vs   Nevada
7)
Dec. 26
 Little Caesars Pizza Ohio vs   Marshall
8)
Dec. 26
 Meinke Car Care N Carolina vs   Pittsburgh
9)
Dec. 26
 Emerald Boston Coll vs   USC
10)
Dec. 27
 Music City Kentucky vs   Clemson
11)
Dec. 28
 Independence Texas A&M vs   Georgia
12)
Dec. 29
 EagleBank UCLA vs   Temple
13)
Dec. 29
 Champs Sports Wisconsin vs   Miami
14)
Dec. 30
 Humanitarian Bowling Green vs   Idaho
15)
Dec. 30
 Holiday Nebraska vs   Arizona
16)
Dec. 31
 Texas Navy vs   Missouri
17)
Dec. 31
 Armed Forces Air Force vs   Houston
18)
Dec. 31
 Sun Stanford vs   Oklahoma
19)
Dec. 31
 Insight Iowa St vs   Minnesota
20)
Dec. 31
 Chick-fil-A Tennessee vs   Virginia Tech
21)
Jan. 1
 Outback Northwestern vs   Auburn
22)
Jan. 1
 Gator Florida St vs   W Virginia
23)
Jan. 1
 Capital One LSU vs   Penn St
24)
Jan. 1
 Rose Ohio St vs   Oregon
25)
Jan. 1
 Sugar Cincinnati vs   Florida
26)
Jan. 2
 International N Illinois vs   USF
27)
Jan. 2
 PapaJohns.com Connecticut vs   S Carolina
28)
Jan. 2
 Cotton Mississippi vs   Oklahoma St
29)
Jan. 2
 Liberty Arkansas vs   East Carolina
30)
Jan. 2
 Alamo Michigan St vs   Texas Tech
31)
Jan. 4
 Fiesta Boise St vs   TCU
32)
Jan. 5
 Orange Iowa vs   Georgia Tech
33)
Jan. 6
 GMAC Troy vs   C Michigan
34)
Jan. 7
 BCS Championship Texas vs   Alabama

 

 


Also make sure to check PhilSteele.com everyday for complete information and coverage on all the bowl matchups. On the homepage click on the Bowl matchups link, where you will find all 34 bowl games. Click on the bowl logo for each game to get all the information you need to become an expert! Start doing your homework now and get your 34 bowl predictions done and email them in.