Big Ten Bowl Matchups - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

Should be a fun season. 6 teams as the lower ranked teams, 2 as higher ranked teams and 2 with neither team ranked.

PlayStation Fiesta Bowl
(3) Ohio State vs. (2) Clemson

Quick Lane Bowl
Maryland vs. Boston College

National Funding Holiday Bowl
Minnesota vs. Washington State

New Era Pinstripe Bowl
(23) Pittsburgh vs. Northwestern

Foster Farms Bowl
Indiana vs. (19) Utah

Franklin Amer. Mort. Music City Bowl
Nebraska vs. (21) Tennessee

Capital One Orange Bowl
(6) Michigan vs. (11) Florida State

Outback Bowl
(17) Florida vs. Iowa

Goodyear Cotton Bowl
(15) Western Michigan vs. (8) Wisconsin

Rose Bowl Game
(9) USC vs. (5) Penn State

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12-06-2016 , 02:22 PM

Hellmuth was right

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Only Michigan (-7), Wisconsin (-7.5) and Ohio st (-3) are favored. No respekt!

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12-06-2016 , 02:56 PM

maxtower

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Pretty funny Minnesota gets matched up to the Pac12 champ loser.

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12-06-2016 , 03:06 PM

flabucki09

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Originally Posted by maxtower

Pretty funny Minnesota gets matched up to the Pac12 champ loser.

That is what happens when the top teams get slotted in the top games - the bottom tier teams get over matched.

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12-06-2016 , 03:24 PM

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Pretty funny Minnesota gets matched up to the Pac12 champ loser.

wtf are you talking about? Washington State is the pac12 champ loser now?

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12-06-2016 , 03:31 PM

flabucki09

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4 unranked Big Ten teams playing ranked teams in bowl games seems a bit rough.

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12-06-2016 , 03:47 PM

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Neb vs tenn looks interesting and UF vs Iowa does too. Both Florida and Iowa have poor offenses so I will just check the final score.

UM vs fsu is good, I think michigan defense is going to be all over fsu qb.

USC vs PSU looks pretty damn good.

Osu vs clemson, I want to see if osu offense bounces back or gets stuffed again.

Wisc, I would have no excitement to play wmu.

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12-06-2016 , 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by NoGambolNoFuture

wtf are you talking about? Washington State is the pac12 champ loser now?

Whoops, I guess I meant 2nd in the North.

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12-06-2016 , 05:03 PM

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Can already see the excuses mounting up for a 3-7 bowl season

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12-06-2016 , 05:21 PM

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Can already see the excuses mounting up for a 3-7 bowl season

Nah, I like our chances in every bowl game. 5-5 is the floor, 10-0 the ceiling.

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12-06-2016 , 05:32 PM

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Can already see the excuses mounting up for a 3-7 bowl season

I don't know that you will hear a ton of excuses. Those that follow these matchups already see the issues. I have 4-6 on the first pass - dependent on suspensions, leave earlies, etc. As long as the top couple teams win I am ok with the other results.

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12-06-2016 , 07:14 PM

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Can already see the excuses mounting up for a 3-7 bowl season

Yep, pretty much this. The top 3 teams in the b10 are all basically playing the equivalent slots of the other conferences. Wisconsin is playing a non-power 5.

The only team that is playing a team significantly higher up in another conference is Indiana, and I guess Iowa. I am not sure what order the b10 people want to put nebraska, minnesota, and northwestern, I would even put Iowa in that group. I know what they are slotted, but they are all about the same.

Outside of the Iowa win over Michigan and those teams beating each other, they have compiled some really impressive wins.

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12-06-2016 , 07:17 PM

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Time to get rich Big Ten style:

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Pending 12/27/16 7:00pm College Football 240 Minnesota U +7½ -150* vs Washington State
Pending 12/28/16 2:00pm College Football 243 Northwestern +7½ -180* vs Pittsburgh U
Pending 12/28/16 8:30pm College Football 247 Indiana +10½ -160* vs Utah
Pending 12/30/16 3:30pm College Football 263 Nebraska +3½ -130* vs Tennessee U
Pending 12/31/16 8:00pm College Football 266 Michigan -6½ -130* vs Florida State
Pending 12/31/16 7:00pm College Football 273 Ohio State -2½ -145* vs Clemson
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Pending 1/2/17 1:00pm College Football 278 Wisconsin -6½ -160* vs Western Michigan
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Pending 12/27/16 7:00pm College Football 240 Minnesota U +13 * vs Washington State
Pending 12/28/16 2:00pm College Football 243 Northwestern +11 * vs Pittsburgh U
Pending 12/28/16 8:30pm College Football 247 Indiana +14 * vs Utah
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Pending 12/31/16 8:00pm College Football 266 Michigan -1½ * vs Florida State
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Pending 1/2/17 1:00pm College Football 275 Iowa +9 * vs Florida
Pending 1/2/17 1:00pm College Football 278 Wisconsin -2½ * vs Western Michigan
Pending 1/2/17 5:00pm College Football 280 Penn State +13½ * vs USC

Might be the smartest parlay+teaser I have ever made in my life.

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12-06-2016 , 07:52 PM

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Is it worse to tease a team across zero (compared to not crossing) since you lose one of your points as games can't end in a tie ?

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12-06-2016 , 07:57 PM

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^ all teasers are suckers except when you can cross the 3 and the 7 but that looks like a YOLO card so EV is infinite

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12-06-2016 , 08:33 PM

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Is it worse to tease a team across zero (compared to not crossing) since you lose one of your points as games can't end in a tie ?

I honestly have never thought this deep on any bet I have ever made in my life.

Last edited by ILOVEPOKER929; 12-06-2016 at 08:33 PM. Reason: It's a lock tho

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12-06-2016 , 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ILOVEPOKER929

Nah, I like our chances in every bowl game. 5-5 is the floor, 10-0 the ceiling.

Ill put money down that B10 goes .500 or under in the bowl games

to hedge your teaser obviously

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12-06-2016 , 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ILOVEPOKER929

I honestly have never thought this deep on any bet I have ever made in my life.

I believe that.

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12-06-2016 , 10:09 PM

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Is it worse to tease a team across zero (compared to not crossing) since you lose one of your points as games can't end in a tie ?

Supposedly it's terrible to cross the zero but my Dad hit an 8 teamer two weeks ago and I mentioned he got lucky and shouldn't have crossed the zero on one of his picks. Then he hit his 8 teamer again last week and crossed the zero twice I think. Expert play I guess.

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12-07-2016 , 09:52 AM

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I was hoping some math wizard would tell me how to think about it.

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12-07-2016 , 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by flabucki09

4 unranked Big Ten teams playing ranked teams in bowl games seems a bit rough.

come on guys, all season yall all talking about how the B1G is so much better than every other conference, now yall all trying to manage expectations???

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12-07-2016 , 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ILOVEPOKER929

Nah, I like our chances in every bowl game. 5-5 is the floor, 10-0 the ceiling.

Think you are missing a game here.

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12-07-2016 , 01:09 PM

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Gonna lose them all. Every one. Proving B10 the most overrated conference.

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12-07-2016 , 07:07 PM

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12-08-2016 , 08:42 AM

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It's very weird to see the B1G finally on the other side of the "overwhelmed matchups" after all the years of them getting so excited by things like B1G #2 squeaking by SEC #5, 3 vs 6, etc.

Of course, there is no longer any reason to imagine we aren't all currently living in Hell, so B1G will go 8-2 minimum

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