Guest Panel-Bowl Games

The Guest Panel starts a new competition with a clean slate. Check back on December 15 for the picks/comments for all 35 bowl games.

NOTE-Panelists, please number your picks in the order in this post. Please delete the game date and time from your picks.

TIEBREAKER-Please list the total number of combined points scored for the Rose Bowl (Stanford vs. Wisconsin) In the event of a tie for first place, I will look to the tiebreaker and the panelist closest to the total number of points, above or below, will break the tie and win. I will only use the tiebreaker for first place.

1.Gildan New Mexico Bowl
Arizona vs. Nevada
December 15, 7 p.m., ESPN

2.Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Toledo vs. Utah State
December 15, 4:30 p.m., ESPN

3.Poinsettia Bowl
BYU vs. San Diego State
December 20, 8 p.m., ESPN

4.Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
Ball State vs. UCF
December 21, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

5.R+L Carriers New Orleans
East Carolina vs. UL Lafayette
December 22, 12 p.m., ESPN

6.MAACO Bowl Las Vegas
Boise State vs. Washington
December 22, 3:30 p.m., ESPN

7.Sheraton Hawaii Bowl
Fresno State vs. SMU
December 24, 8 p.m., ESPN

8.Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
Central Michigan vs. Western Kentucky
December 26, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

9.Military Bowl
Bowling Green vs. San Diego State
December 27, 3 p.m., ESPN

10.Belk Bowl
Cincinnati vs. Duke
December 27, 6:30 p.m., ESPN

11.Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl
Baylor vs. UCLA
December 27, 9:45 p.m., ESPN

12.AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl
Ohio vs. ULM
December 28, 2 p.m., ESPN

13.Russell Atheltic Bowl
Rutgers vs. Virginia Tech
December 28, 5:30 p.m., ESPN

14.Meineke Car Care Bowl
Minnesota vs. Texas Tech
December 28, 9 p.m., ESPN

15.Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
Air Force vs. Rice
December 29, 11:45 a.m., ESPN

16.New Era Pinstripe Bowl
Syracuse vs. West Virginia
December 29, 3:15 p.m., ESPN

17.Kraft Fight Hunger
Arizona State vs. Navy
December 29, 4 p.m., ESPN2

18.Valero Alama Bowl
Oregon State vs. Texas
December 29, 6:45 p.m., ESPN

19.Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
Michigan State vs. TCU
December 29, 10:15 p.m. ESPN

20.Music City Bowl
NC State vs. Vanderbilt
December 31, 12 p.m., ESPN

21.Hyundai Sun Bowl
Georgia Tech vs. USC
December 31, 2 p.m., CBS

22.AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Iowa State vs. Tulsa
December 31, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

23.Chick-fil-A Bowl
Clemson vs. LSU
December 31, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

24.Heart of Dallas Bowl
Purdue vs. Oklahoma State
January 1, 12 p.m., ESPNU

25.TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Northwestern
January 1, 12 p.m., ESPN2

26.Capital One Bowl
Georgia vs. Nebraska
January 1, 1 p.m., ABC

27.Outback Bowl
Michigan vs. South Carolina
January 1, 1 p.m., ESPN

28.Rose Bowl
Stanford vs. Wisconsin
January 1, 5 p.m., ESPN

29.Discover Orange Bowl
Florida State vs. Northern Illinois
January 1, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

30.Allstate Sugar Bowl
Florida vs. Louisville
January 2, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

31.Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
Kansas State vs. Oregon
January 3, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

32.AT&T Cotton Bowl
Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M
January 4, 8 p.m., FOX

33.BBVA Compass Bowl
Ole Miss vs. Pittsburgh
January 5, 1 p.m., ESPN

34.GoDaddy.com Bowl
Arkansas State vs. Kent State
January 6, 9 p.m., ESPN

35.BCS National Championship
Alabama vs. Notre Dame
January 7, 8:30 p.m., ESPN

Guest Panel-Regular Season Final Standings

Below are the final standings for the Guest Panel Regular Season. Congrats to Funtik the Hog for his victory in the Buckeye Pregame Guest Panel Regular Season Competition! He will receive an OSU shirt and a certificate. He took the lead with the final set of picks, and a 5-1 record. Also joining him on the podium are Philly Cheese at second, and SPAM and Black Widow tied at third place. Black Widow moved from 6th place, and was the only panelist to go 6-0 in the final week.

Thanks to the entire guest panel for another great season of picks and funny and insightful commentary.

The bowl games are around the corner, and the games will soon be posted. Everyone will have a clean slate for the bowl game competition, which will have its own champion.

Final Standings:

1. Funtik the Hog (58-26) (5-1 last week)

2. Philly Cheese (57-27) (4-2 last week)

3. SPAM (54-30) (5-1 last week)

3. Black Widow (54-30) (6-0 last week)

5. Mel Kiper's Hair (53-31) (3-3 last week)
5. Dr. Funkenstein (53-31) (5-1 last week)
7. Batman (51-33) (2-4 last week)

7. Corso (51-33) (3-3 last week)

9. Old Bag of Man (50-34) (4-2 last week)

9. Bowl Ban (50-34) (5-1 last week)
11. Hudy the Dark Knight (49-35) (2-4 last week)

11. Big Dog (49-35) (3-3 last week)