BCS Bowl Breakdown – Your Best Bets

BCS Bowl Breakdown

Best Bet: Oregon -4 over Ohio State in the Rose Bowl

The venerable Tim Brown won my dad like a grand in the late 1980’s when they ran fantasy football leagues in smoke filled rooms in sports bars. He was a hell of a football player, and he knows how to handicap football. I agree with him on his Rose Bowl pick.

There’s just no way that the Ohio State Buckeyes get anywhere close to the Oregon Ducks in the Rose Bowl. I just don’t see it happening. The Buckeyes’ D is good, but Oregon’s offense is great and Buckeye QB Terrelle Pryor has a torn PCL.

Put this one in the bank.

BCS Bowl Previews

The BCS Bowls are about to kick into gear! Check out Tim Brown’s college bowl predictions on BetFlix regarding the January 1 st Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.

Game To Stay Away From (If That’s Possible!): Orange Bowl Between Iowa and Georgia Tech

The college bowl line on this game is Tech -3 ½. Sounds reasonable, right? Well, yeah…that’s the problem. Betting on Tech or Iowa in this game sounds reasonable. The issue is that neither team appears to have a decided advantage over the other.

The total appears realistic as well at 50 ½. The thing about this game is that neither Georgia Tech nor Iowa really probably deserves to be in this game. Or…maybe they both do. See? I don’t know!

Iowa can cover…or Georgia Tech can cover. The game can go over…or the game can go under. The Orange Bowl is just too competitive for me to find a really good wager. Oh, I’ll pick one and I’ll make a bet, because I’m that kind of guy, but if there was a game that I was going to skip making a wager on a BCS game, the Orange Bowl would be the game.

Parlay to Bet For Sure: Oregon -4 in the Rose Bowl to TCU -7 ½ in the Fiesta Bowl to Alabama -4 in the BCS Championship

Oregon should roll, but ‘Bama? I have to admit that I was very impressed with Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl.

The TCU Horned Frogs have a Top 5 defense and Boise State played pansies all year long. I like the Broncos, like everybody, but TCU is just too good on both offense and defense and should beat up Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. TCU would have a shot against Alabama in the BCS Championship. Yes, I believe that they are that good.

If I was impressed with the Cornhuskers in the Holiday Bowl, then I have to be impressed with Texas, right? Not necessarily. It’s not like Texas scored against the Cornhuskers’ defense and lest we forget the Longhorns gave up 39 points to Texas A&M, who subsequently got squashed by Georgia in a bowl game last Monday, in their final Big 12 regular season game of 2009.

The Crimson Tide should run and pass all over the Texas defense and Colt McCoy is going to find it tough to get anything going against Alabama’s super awesome D.

Yeah, Texas beat USC the last time they were in the BCS Championship but as good as McCoy is he’s no Vince Young and coach Nick Saban for ‘Bama knows how to prepare his boys.

Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid: Cincinnati to Beat Florida in the Sugar Bowl

Tim picks Cincinnati to beat Florida in one of his BetFlix videos. I can’t do it, Mr. Brown. I just can’t. I love you and respect you, but I can’t.

The college bowl line went from 10 ½ to 12 ½ in this one so far and it should go higher. What that means is that bettors are indeed NOT drinking the Kool-Aid!

Don’t start is my suggestion. Florida will roll in this game. Cincy’s defense is horrid, absolutely horrid, and Florida’s defense is fantastic.

Also, this is Tim Tebow’s last game as Florida’s QB. The man might not play in the NFL. He probably definitely won’t as a quarterback. Expect him to be awesome in the Sugar Bowl and expect his teammates to really step it up for him.