Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Episode 216 - UEFA Champions League Review and College Bowl Picks (and more)

First things first: we had to issue some batsu.

Tim's punishment for his picks for the 2016-17 UEFA Champions League group stage will be:


Reciting one of the fan chants of Borussia Dortmund, one of the teams in group stage he whiffed on.

Now, on to college bowl picks:

Bowl Game Mike's Pick Tim's Pick
New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico
Las Vegas Houston Houston
Camellia Appalachian State Appalachian State
Cure Central Florida Central Florida
New Orleans Southern Miss Louisiana-Lafayette
Miami Beach Tulsa Central Michigan
Boca Raton Western Kentucky Memphis
Poinsettia BYU BYU
Idaho Potato Colorado State Colorado State
Popeyes Bahamas Old Dominion Old Dominion
Armed Forces Navy Navy
Dollar General Ohio Troy
Hawaii Middle Tennessee Middle Tennessee
St. Petersburg Miami (OH) Mississippi State
Quick Lane Boston College Boston College
Independence NC State NC State
Heart of Dallas Army Army
Military Wake Forest Temple
Holiday Minnesota Washington State
Cactus Boise State Boise State
Pinstripe Pitt Pitt
Russell Athletic West Virginia West Virginia
Foster Farms Utah Utah
Advocare V100 Texas Texas A&M Texas A&M
Birmingham South Carolina South Florida
Belk Virginia Tech Virginia Tech
Alamo Colorado Oklahoma State
Liberty Georgia Georgia
Sun Stanford Stanford
Music City Nebraska Nebraska
Arizona South Alabama Air Force
Orange Florida State Michigan
Taxslayer Georgia Tech Georgia Tech
Citrus Louisville Louisville
Chick-Fil-A Peach* Alabama Alabama
Fiesta* Clemson Clemson
Cotton Wisconsin Western Michigan
Outback Florida Florida
Rose Penn State USC
Sugar Auburn Oklahoma
Championship** Alabama Clemson

Think you can pick better than us?  Please feel free to join our Yahoo picks pool.

Other topics of quick discussion:
  • UMKC is off to a great start to their basketball season (barring an embarrassing loss to KU)
  • Tim going off on the Chicago Bears over their bad season, and a plea to cut Jay Cutler
  • Mike is experiencing extreme schadenfreude over the mess that is Los Angeles, and especially takes joy in this graphic:


Fair use: Senor Stan returns.



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