Kris,

 The game I like the best is St. Josephs -1 over Duquesne. Unfortunately, my man has that game off the board. So I don't have anything on it yet.

I did get on Wichita State -2 and of couse it has moved to -1.5. Never fails. :)

The game that looks good but I'm leaving alone for right now is Notre Dame - Seton Hall. I'm trying to find out the story on the spread.

I don't like any of the NBA games tonight.

Place a bet on tonight's National title game.

That really is your only chance to end up a winner.  There is no other outcome that I see where we all would win tonight.  Regardless of which team wins tonight, we know that the real National champion wasn't crowned.  You can 't say that LSU and Ohio State are the best teams in the country.  Ohio State played a meatball schedule, while LSU has two losses.  I'm not saying we don't have two good teams playing tonight, but I am saying we don't have the best teams playing, at least not for sure

For the past four years I have yet to spend an entire New Year's Eve with my wife.  Last year was the first time we got to see the ball drop together, as she made it in about a minute before midnight.  This year is rare.  Neither of us have to work after six tonight, which means we will be spending the evening together.  I'm pretty excited by that, it's got me in a good mood, and because of that, I figured I would post some picks.  Hopefully these will help people out in their decision making today.

College Football

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I'm mailing these picks in this week, for the simple reason that my browser crashed right as I got to the final game, and I have no time to type these picks up again.  To sum it all up, these are going by the best percentages of the system, with a few personal opinions thrown in (Big 12 sucks, ACC sucks, Big Ten sucks except against the Big 12, SEC and Pac-10 are good, Big East is entertaining and better than the ACC, and I hate betting against Dan LeFevour.)

Central Michigan +7.5
Arizona State +2.5
Boston College -3.5
Houston +4
Oregon State -5
UConn

The bowls are tough to predict. It seems that no matter what type of system you have to predict games in the regular season, it all falls apart during the bowl season. There are several reasons for this. Coaches leave a program before the bowl game (West Virginia.) New coaches take over teams with little time to prepare for the bowl, often focusing on the recruiting class (Michigan.) Players get suspended (Florida State). Players play harder with the NFL in sight. (JaMarcus Russell last season.) Teams are disappointed by getting shafted in the bowl selection process, and therefore don

I want to point out a few glaring errors with the current ranking system:

1.  LSU is ranked #7 behind Virginia Tech.  Both have two losses.  I'd imagine if they played each other, LSU would beat the crap out of Virginia Tech.  Unfortunately, there is no way to prove this.  Oh, wait...

2.  Kansas is ranked 5th, despite the fact that they have yet to beat a winning team.  Oh wait, they beat Texas A&M, who are 7-5.  That's justification.

3.  Ohio State and Georgia are done, and will probably benefit from Missouri playing

Just a quick follow up to the intro on the weekday picks.  I was thinking about how likely it would be for West Virginia to make it to the National title game.  I think Kansas goes down this weekend to the first real team they've played, but like I said, I don't think Missouri makes it past the Big 12 title game.  West Virginia has UConn and Pittsburgh, so they have an easy path to the top if Missouri and Kansas get knocked off.  That brings up two other thoughts:

1.  What if LSU loses?  They don't exactly have a cakewalk.  They play Arkansas

But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.

Every year the Ringling Brother Circus come to the United Center, and the clowns head west for their annual beating.  The 2-8 Bulls haven't disappointed us with this year's effort with their only win coming against the hapless Clippers. At least they'll be in New York on Saturday so they should walk away with a win. The real question is which game would you rather watch the Pre-Season N.I.T. championship game on Friday or the thrilling Bulls v/s Knicks game on Saturday.

The Oregon loss really put the college football picture in turmoil this past weekend.  You could say that it is exciting to see all of those Big 12 teams battling it out in an attempt to play LSU in the National title game.  Personally I'd rather have Ohio State back.  At least they were deserving.

What's that?  Deserving?  How can I call an undefeated Kansas team undeserving of a spot in the National title game?  Well, to this point their best opponent, and actually their only opponent with a winning record, has been Oklahoma State.  At

I was going to write about college football, which would be fitting since this is a college football post.  However, something happened tonight between my initial thought for an intro, and this moment.  For some reason I was entering data for all 119 teams all this time, which took anywhere from 1-2 hours of time.  Tonight I sat here thinking "Why not try to import the data with a web search?"  I did, it worked, and suddenly the 1-2 hours turned in to 5-10 minutes.

To celebrate this new revelation of time saving, I am going to just get right to the picks.&