Three bowl games today, all named after their home cities - Boca Raton, New Orleans, and Frisco (Texas). Three games, six teams, and not one of them ranked.
In this first bowl, we at least have a team from a major conference - the Louisville Cardinals (8-4) of the ACC. Louisville has the further distinction of holding, at least for a couple weeks this season, the lineal championship belt and Georgia's 2021 and 2022 national championship rings. They won them back on October 17 when they beat Miami, who won them from South Florida, who won them from Florida. They lost the prizes on November 8 when they lost to California, who lost them to Stanford, who lost them to Notre Dame, who didn't get invited to the CFP and decided to sit out the post-season like the spoiled, privileged little bitches they are.
In Boca, the Cardinals played the Toledo Red Rockets (8-4) of the MAC. I had Louisville as 8½-point favorites, although by game time they were 12½-point favorites (pick the favorites early in the week and the underdogs late in the week). For the first three quarters of the game, Toledo only scored a single field goal, and Louisville had an 18-point lead after the first play of the fourth quarter, an 11-yard TD run by Isaac Brown.
But then Toledo woke up and decided to start playing football. They scored two TDs and another FG in the fourth, and although Louisville still had one more TD left in them and won the game, they won by only five points, so underdog Toledo beat the spread and I lost the bet.
I'm now 5-8 on the season, but what, me worry? The next game, the New Orleans Bowl, has already started and I've moved on.
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