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All-Haiku Bowl Results, 2019
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2020
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?
But when they had ordered them to leave the Council, they began to confer with one another,
Acts 4:15
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:51 am and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.
