Hmmm, another loss in my picks, and not only do I not care, I'm actually glad the team I picked lost. Fuck Ohio State!
The Cotton Bowl was host to the first of this season's CFP quarterfinals, and had the No. 10 Miami Hurricanes (11-2), fresh off their First Round win over A&M, face off against the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes (12-1), playing their first post-season game this year after a First Round bye. I picked the Buckeyes to win without any points, since I made my picks before the playoffs began and it wasn't yet established who they'd be playing in the Cotton Bowl. At gametime, though, OSU was a 7½-point favorite.
But as soon as the game began, I found myself cheering for the Hurricanes because ex-Georgia QB Carson Beck still has some Dawg in him, and because fuck Ohio State and fuck Ryan Day's dyed beard ("rinse the grey away!"). I've lost so many games already and I'm so deep in the hole, there's no redeeming this season so what's one more loss versus selling my soul to cheer for an overrated, undertested, and feckless Ohio State squad?
Miami never trailed in the game and the closest OSU ever got was 17-14 in the fourth. But there was no NCAA script with a surprise rally and equally surprising string of turnovers by the leader, and Miami held on and won the game by 10. It turned out to be the biggest upset in CFB history.
The University of Georgia Bulldogs, should they survive Ole Miss tomorrow, will face their former QB and the Hurricanes in the Fiesta Bowl (semifinal game of the CFB) on January 8.
For whatever its worth at this point, and it's not much, I'm now 12-22 in my picks and with 10 games left to the postseason, I'd have to win them all to even reach .500 mediocrity.
Long day. I'm logging off and we'll pick this up again tomorrow.
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