Watchlords

Hey, it's that time of year again; US college football bowl season.

Here's the game: pick the winners of each bowl game. At the end, the one with the most wins will win either a watch from my collection or a donation to the charity of your choice.

here's the list of games. Many have won just by selecting their favorite helmet design.

https://fbschedules.com/bowls/2022-23-b ... hedule.pdf

No fee to play. We're here to have fun!

Count me in!! Sounds like fun. It was a blast last year.

Count me in

My picks with the red X!

Thanks for the fun Battle!

The watch prize is a Dan Henry 1962: https://danhenrywatches.com/collections ... hronograph



It's a very nice watch, fits great on my wrist but due to my ever-growing collection, just doesn't see the light of day. I've got the box and stuff to go with it.

Or, you could opt for a sizable donation to the charity of your choice.

Here are my picks:

bbattle wrote: ↑

December 5th 2022, 7:47pm

The watch prize is a Dan Henry 1962: https://danhenrywatches.com/collections ... hronograph



It's a very nice watch, fits great on my wrist but due to my ever-growing collection, just doesn't see the light of day. I've got the box and stuff to go with it.

Or, you could opt for a sizable donation to the charity of your choice.

Fantastic prizes!!

You're a legend Mr Battle. I'm in. Will post my picks shortly. A modest donation to Smith Family would be a fantastic prize

This is the spirit of the season!

Cheers!

Michigan wins it all.

If I win, and I surely will, and the prize is a Smith Family donation, I'll match it up to AUD200.

jason_recliner wrote: ↑

December 6th 2022, 5:18pm

If I win, and I surely will, and the prize is a Smith Family donation, I'll match it up to AUD200.

You realize this is American football ? Not . Right!?

In America we toss around the old goat skin and have players with tight ends and others who are receivers. You see, one of the line men hides the ball between his legs and passes the ball to another player standing behind him patting his bottom as he bends over.

This is all enjoyed with beer and pretzels with cheese

By the way, it looks like we have a fine line up of player contestants.

There is still time !

jason_recliner wrote: ↑

December 6th 2022, 5:18pm

If I win, and I surely will, and the prize is a Smith Family donation, I'll match it up to AUD200.

Great! I still get e-mails from the Smith Family. Fine organization.

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Don't follow college ball enough to participate though I do have some win/lose preferences for various reasons.


Hoping they WIN
Utah (PAC-12 Champs)
Tulane
Kansas State
Tennessee
Washington
Washington State
Oregon State
TCU (go Horned Frogs)
Georgia

Hoping they LOSE--------- big
USC (Heisman posing showboat QB)
Texas (cuz they're playing Washington)
Oregon (cuz they're Oregon)
Alabama (Sabin)
Michigan (Harbaugh)
UCLA (Kelly)

codguy wrote: ↑

December 7th 2022, 8:19am

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Don't follow college ball enough to participate though I do have some win/lose preferences for various reasons.


Hoping they WIN
Utah (PAC-12 Champs)
Tulane
Kansas State
Tennessee
Washington
Washington State
Oregon State
TCU (go Horned Frogs)
Georgia

Hoping they LOSE--------- big
USC (Heisman posing showboat QB)
Texas (cuz they're playing Washington)
Oregon (cuz they're Oregon)
Alabama (Sabin)
Michigan (Harbaugh)
UCLA (Kelly)

I agree with most of these, goddamn it.

Game on!!! The Mighty Ducks to win the whole thing, in honour of Alain.

jesse_recliner, you need to tell us who you think will win the championship.

The mighty Oregon Ducks are not in the running to win the whole thing. Or did you mean the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, the professional ice hockey team?

bbattle wrote: ↑

December 7th 2022, 4:44pm

jesse_recliner, you need to tell us who you think will win the championship.

The mighty Oregon Ducks are not in the running to win the whole thing. Or did you mean the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, the professional ice hockey team?

smellody wrote: ↑

December 7th 2022, 4:57pm

bbattle wrote: ↑

December 7th 2022, 4:44pm

jesse_recliner, you need to tell us who you think will win the championship.

The mighty Oregon Ducks are not in the running to win the whole thing. Or did you mean the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, the professional ice hockey team?

Goddammit it's hard enough keeping up with Aussie Rules, and now I've got to follow goddam NFL as well, except it's not NFL because you people have more than one bloody league! And I'm TOTALLY confused because I just googled College Football Oregon and it says the team is called the Ducks! Well, I circled 'Oregon' a bunch of times so whoever they are, the Mighty Oregon Whatevers for the Championship!

(with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks an outside chance. Sportsbet odds are through the roof but seems unlikely as they play a different sport and don't compete in this league)

Oh, wait. Do you mean that match at the end? I thought that was a placeholder, teams TBC, with the teams who win most bowl matches playing off in a final. So they are initials for actual teams? OK, gotta be Mich.

jason_recliner wrote: ↑

December 7th 2022, 5:29pm

Oh, wait. Do you mean that match at the end? I thought that was a placeholder, teams TBC, with the teams who win most bowl matches playing off in a final. So they are initials for actual teams? OK, gotta be Mich.

It does get confusing sometimes. Here in Alabama, we have U of A, the University of Alabama. And AU, Auburn University, also known as the Tigers, or Plainsmen, or Barners. Auburn fans throw toilet paper into some trees in town when they win a game. They also have an eagle as a mascot that flies into the stadium and lands on the turf before the game. There's also ASU, or Alabama State University. And then there's USA, or University of South Alabama. And UNA and UWA but I don't believe we have an UEA; I guess East Alabama must make do with Auburn. UAB, is University of Alabama-Birmingham; well known for its medical school. They are known as the Blazers which means they wear stylish jackets and/or smoke a lot of weed.

UAH, here in Huntsville, is jokingly called "University at Home" since so many students just live with mom and dad instead of on campus. Like Auburn, it's known for churning out engineers. UAH is involved in a lot of projects with the aerospace industry and department of defense.

Auburn is weird. Is it war eagles or tigers?

I’m a hairy dawg with a techie for a brother so I feel your pain

What do you call UAB?

Huntsville - I worked for Intergraph back in 90s, used to be a big deal there.

Still a few more days left before bowl season kicks off so send in your selections.

Intergraph still a big company here in Huntsville but they are part of Hexagon now.

Fun Facts about Huntsville:

Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Missile Defense Agency, Army Space and Rocket Command, Army Contracting Command, Army Test Helicopter Command and the FBI's 1 billion dollar alternate HQ site, soon to grow to 4,000 personnel.
Redstone Arsenal consist of 72+ different agencies employing nearly 41,000 people.
Cummings Research Park is the second largest research park in the U.S. with over 300 companies, employing more than 29,000 people.
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I’d like to give it a go if I am not too late:

Deadline is almost here; the first game starts December 16, 10:30 central time USA. The Redhawks of Miami (Ohio, not Florida) will take on the Blazers of University of Alabama-Birmingham. Pretty sweet game for two teams that both went 6-6 in regular season. They are playing in the HomeTown Lenders Bahamas Bowl in Nassau. Weather should be quite nice.

schedule of all the games: https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... asontype/3