What? Another Sun Belt/CUSA bowl? How many of these teams are there, and is EVERY ONE of them in a bowl? I go a whole year without watching either conference and then in the past week, I've watched like a dozen of these teams. Sheesh.
This time, we had the unranked Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (8-4) of CUSA against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (7-5) of the Sun Belt. I usually pick southern teams over Yankees in these bowls, but for some reason I took WKU as four-point favorites (Southern Miss is more "deep south" than Western Kentucky, but it's only down here in Georgia that Bowling Green could be considered "Yankee").
In the game, the Hilltoppers did for me much like what Toledo did to me in the previous game. Specifically, they only scored a pair of field goals in the first half and fell behind 13-6 at the half. They finally scored a TD in the third, and then came roaring back (literally) with two more TDs in the fourth, won the game, and beat the spread.
I won the bet and improve to a modest 6-8 on my picks.
The third and final bowl of the day had already started - they're keeping these things on schedule - so I'll pick this up later.
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