All-Haiku Bowl Results, 2018

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

Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Stumble Upon

This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:20 am and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.

Leave a Reply

Comment moderation: please do not submit your comment multiple times, as comments are not posted until I approve them. If your comment never appears, that probably means that I didn't like your comment (maybe off topic, maybe spam, maybe not family-friendly, etc.).