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Okay, okay, it is 2020 at this point, but the results are headlines as 2019 because they match with the 2019 predictions made in 2019 for the 2019 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 2019”.

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):

Buffalo over Charlotte

Utah St. over Kent St.

CMU over SDSU

Georgia So. over Liberty

FAU over SMU

Arkansas St. over FIU

BSU over Washington

App. St. over UAB

UCF over Marshall

Hawaii over BYU

Miami FL over La. Tech

Pitt over EMU

UNC over Temple

Wake Forest over Michigan St.

Ok. St. over Texas AM

Iowa over USC

Air Force over Washington St.

Iowa St. over ND

Penn St. over Memphis

LSU over Oklahoma

Clemson over Ohio St.

WMU over WKU

Mississippi St. over Louisville

Cal over Illinois

Florida over Virginia

Utah over Texas

VT over Kentucky

Arizona St. over FSU

KSU over Navy

Wyoming over Georgia St.

Alabama over Michigan

Auburn over Minnesota

Wisconsin over Oregon

Georgia over Baylor

Cincinnati over BC

Indiana over Tennessee

Nevada over Ohio

Southern Miss over Tulane

Louisiana over Miami OH

Clemson over LSU

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 22-18 (same losses as last year)
• CBS120 picks were 25-15 (much better than last year)
• 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 2019 (and the first bit of 2020) season.

• AAC: 4-3
• ACC: 3-4*
• Big 10: 4-5
• Big 12: 2-3
• Independent: 0-1
• MAC: 2-1
• MW: 3-3
• PAC12: 3-3
• SEC: 7*-2
• Sun Belt: 2-1
• USA: 3-4

* additional win/loss due to playoff + championship game

So the best conference was the SEC (they won 78% of their bowl games) and the worst was the Big 12 (at 40 %).

Or maybe the MAC was the worst conference because they sent the fewest teams to bowl games this year.

Normally, this is the spot where I find ways to choose different conferences as the best, by choosing different perspectives. But this year, they all point to the SEC – they had the most teams, the most wins, and the overall champion.

Next year: playoffs again! LSU and Clemson who are the other two?

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