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All-Haiku Bowl Results, 2018
Jan
16
2019
Okay, okay, it is 2019 at this point, but the results are headlines as 2018 because they match with the 2018 predictions made in 2018 for the 2018 season. Also, the results are not all-haiku, just the predictions were. A more accurate title would be “Results for the All-Haiku Predictions made in 2018”.
Before the bowl games commenced for this past college football season, I made some predictions. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is the tally of those predictions. Note that the results are not in haiku form, in contrast to the predictions.
Results
Here is the list (correct predictions in green, incorrect in red):
Utah St. over N. Texas
La. Lafayette over Tulane
Fresno St. over Arizona St.
Georgia So. over EMU
App. St. over MTSU
NIU over UAB
SDSU over Ohio
USF over Marshall
FIU over Toledo
WMU over BYU
Memphis over Wake Forest
Army over Houston
Buffalo over Troy
Hawaii over La. Tech
BSU over BC
GT over Minnesota
TCU over Cal
Duke over Temple
Wisconsin over Miami FL
Vanderbilt over Baylor
Purdue over Auburn
WVU over Syracuse
Washington St. over Iowa St.
Michigan over Florida
Virginia over S. Carolina
Nevada over Arkansas St.
Clemson over ND
Oklahoma over Alabama
Cincinnati over VT
Oregon over Michigan St.
Missouri over Ok. St.
Northwestern over Utah
Texas AM over NC St.
Stanford over Pitt
Iowa over Mississippi St.
Penn St. over Kentucky
LSU over UCF
Washington over Ohio St.
Georgia over Texas
Clemson over Oklahoma
And here are the results of the various forecasting methodologies (see the first year for description of the methodologies) (also, use the word methodologies if you want to sound important; methods would work just as well and is shorter) :
- Some Blog Site picks were 21-18 (same as last year)
- CBS120 picks were 21-18
- I didn’t bother with Home Team stuff this year
I won’t analyze the results as much as I did last year, mainly because I had more time and more sleep last year. I just need to figure how to better predict outcomes. Especially against the spread.
Because of the disparities between institutions and between conferences, it is tougher to predict bowl games than NFL games. But one thing seems to be pretty consistent: if you don’t want to do a lot of research, just pick whatever CBS Sports says.
Thoughts on the season’s results
No comment. Ever since a certain TV company bought the rights to most of the bowl games, I haven’t been able to watch them. So I don’t. It’s hard to keep being a fan of something when that happens.
Conferences
Since the strength of the conference has something to do with the results, I thought I would tally each conference’s bowl game record for the 2018 (and the first bit of 2019) season.
- AAC: 2-4
- ACC: 6*-2
- Big 10: 5-4
- Big 12: 3-6
- Independent: 2-1
- MAC: 1-3
- MW: 4-1
- PAC12: 3-3
- SEC: 6-5*
- Sun Belt: 2-1
- USA: 3-1
* additional win/loss due to playoff + championship game
So the best conference was the Mountain West (they won 80% of their bowl games) and the worst was the MAC (at 25%).
Or maybe the Sun Belt was the worst conference because they sent the fewest teams to bowl games this year.
Perhaps you could say that the SEC was the best because they sent the most teams to bowl games this year.
Or perhaps you could say the ACC was the best because they had the official championship team.
Next year: playoffs again! And I hope there are more than two teams in it!
Do not contend with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
Proverbs 3:30
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:20 am and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.
