Diner Football Predictions, Bowl Edition, Part I

It's certainly the most wonderful time of the year for college football...the bowl season is upon us and I'm trying to improve on a wacky season's less-than-stunning sub .500 (and trying to out-perform last year's 18-14 bowl picks against the spread) and instead of one long edition of bowl games, I'll only be doing the ones played that day. See, the F.S.U. incident or Clemson's linebackers getting suspended matter and if you pick too far out then you could miss some important information.

So, here's today's on-ramp to the freeway of the bowl season!

Utah vs. Navy (+8) in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: According to Ron Burgandy, the meaning of "San Diego" has been lost to scholars...and the only thing good about this bowl is that you can think of all the references Will Farrell made as "Anchorman" regarding that particular city. However, they're playin' it, so I'm pickin' it. The bottom line is that Utah can score points, Navy's losing their coach to Georgia Tech and the Utes have had plenty of time to practice defending the option. So, while Navy is kind of endearing with their old-school ways of running the option (they aired it out against Army and threw all of 7 times), they don't have enough to keep up with Utah. Diner Prediction: Utah 35, Navy 24