The Daily blog will be undergoing some changes in the next couple of days now that the college football season is complete. Tomorrow's and Sunday's blog will give you my forecasts for the NFL Wildcard games played that day including my computer's projected box score of the games. Starting next week I will be going to a Monday, Wednesday and weekend blog format until magazine season is over in late spring/early summer. Next weeks blog will start analyzing this years bowl games giving you the top players and performances from the past bowl season. The following week will feature my projection of what the Preseason AP top 10 will be for 2010 and that will be coming after January 15th when juniors have to declare or not declare for the NFL Draft.

Conference Bowl Standings

The MWC lost its first game of the bowl season on Monday in their most important bowl with Boise St beating TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. However the conference did finish with the highest win % and went 2-0 vs BCS teams. The Big East finished the bowl season a respectable 4-2 but did get trounced in their BCS game. The SEC had the most bowl participants with 10 and went 6-4 including 2-0 in their BCS games. With Alabama's win last night the SEC has now won 4 straight national championships and 6 of the 12 BCS titles. The Big 10 had their best bowl season in years winning four games over AP Top 15 teams capped off by last nights Iowa win over #9 Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. Coming into this season the Big 10 was just 9-20 in bowl games from 2005-08 including 1-6 last year. The Big 12 finished at 4-4 and lost their most important game last night in the National title. Finally the MAC saw its 14 game bowl losing streak snap last night with Central Michigan beating Troy 44-41 in 2OT in the GMAC Bowl.

Bowl Confidence Contest

The 2010 Bowl Confidence Contest was a huge success with more than double the amount of entries compared to last year! Congratulations to Don Seebold the winner of the 2010 Bowl Confidence Contest!! Don finished with an amazing 508 points won to just 87 points lost (85%) and will take home the grand prize of $250. Gary Osborne finished in 2nd with 457 points (77%) and will get $100 and a set of 2010 regionals. Rick Perk finished in 3rd with 452 points (76%) and will get $50 and set of regionals.

We look forward to next years contest and promise it will be even bigger and better than this years!

Thanks again to the near 1200 people that have entered. If you have any questions concerning your points or do not see your name in the Top 50 and think it should be please email Brandon@philsteele.com.

Here are the final leaderboards.

The Top 50

Radio Contest Leaderboards

Congratulations to Gary Osborne the winner of the KNR group with 457 points. Gary was #2 in the entire contest and finished strong winning his last five bowl games. Chris Haynes finished in 2nd place with 415 points which was good enough for #31 overall.

Congratulations to Tim Johnston the winner of the STO group with 428 points. Tim was #17 in the entire contest and dominated this leaderboard in the past week. Scott (wox 11) finished in 2nd with 407 points which was good enough for #46 in the entire contest.

Congratulations to Rob Vanier the winner of the 94.1 group with 396 points as he finished strong going 3-1 in his last four bowl picks. Scott Boyce finished in 2nd with 388 points.