College Football

2013-2014 college football bowl picks: All 35 games, by humans and computers

College football writers, advanced statistics, and Odds Shark’s computers give us predictions for all of this season’s bowl games.

by Chris Fuhrmeister

Dec 21, 2013, 2:00 PM UTC

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Bowl season is upon us, which means its time for fans across the country to blindly pick winners and hope to come out on top in their respective office pools. Sure, anyone could do research and try to find out all the angles of every matchup, but why do that when we have already done it for you?

The below straight-up picks are via an SB Nation panel of college football people (Jason Kirk, Spencer Hall, Bill Connelly, Dan Rubenstein, Bud Elliott, Luke Zimmermann), Football Study Hall and Football Outsiders’ F/+ rankings, and the Odds Shark’s wager-handicapping models.

	SB Nation.com	F/+	Odds Shark
New Mexico Washington State vs. Colorado State	Washington State	Washington State	Colorado State
Las Vegas Fresno State vs. USC	USC	USC	Fresno State
Famous Idaho Potato Buffalo vs. San Diego State	San Diego State	Buffalo	Buffalo
New Orleans Tulane vs. Louisiana-Lafayette	Split	Tulane	UL Lafayette
Beef 'O' Brady's East Carolina vs. Ohio	East Carolina	East Carolina	East Carolina
Hawaii Boise State vs. Oregon State	Oregon State	Boise State	Boise State
Little Caesars Pittsburgh vs. Bowling Green	Bowling Green	Bowling Green	Bowling Green
Poinsettia Utah State vs. Northern Illinois	Northern Illinois	Utah State	Northern Illinois
Military Bowl Marshall vs. Maryland	Split	Marshall	Marshall
Texas Syracuse vs. Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota	Minnesota
Fight Hunger BYU vs. Washington	BYU	Washington	Washington
Pinstripe Rutgers vs. Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
Belk Cincinnati vs. North Carolina	North Carolina	North Carolina	Cincinnati
Russell Athletic Miami vs. Louisville	Louisville	Louisville	Louisville
Buffalo Wild Wings Michigan vs. Kansas State	Kansas State	Kansas State	Kansas State
Armed Forces Middle Tennessee vs. Navy	Navy	Navy	Navy
Music City Ole Miss vs. Georgia Tech	Ole Miss	Georgia Tech	Georgia Tech
Alamo Oregon vs. Texas	Oregon	Oregon	Oregon
Holiday Arizona State vs. Texas Tech	Arizona State	Arizona State	Arizona State
AdvoCare V100 Arizona vs. Boston College	Arizona	Arizona	Arizona
Sun Virginia Tech vs. UCLA	UCLA	UCLA	UCLA
Liberty Rice vs. Mississippi State	Mississippi State	Mississippi State	Rice
Chick-fil-A Duke vs. Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Texas A&M	Texas A&M
Gator Nebraska vs. Georgia	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia
Heart of Dallas UNLV vs. North Texas	North Texas	North Texas	North Texas
Capital One Wisconsin vs. South Carolina	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
Outback Iowa vs. LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU
Rose Bowl Stanford vs. Michigan State	Stanford	Stanford	Michigan State
Fiesta UCF vs. Baylor	Baylor	Baylor	Baylor
Sugar Oklahoma vs. Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama
Orange Clemson vs. Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State
Cotton Oklahoma State vs. Missouri	Split	Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State
BBVA Compass Vanderbilt vs. Houston	Vanderbilt	Houston	Houston
GoDaddy Arkansas State vs. Ball State	Split	Ball State	Ball State
BCS National Championship Florida State vs. Auburn	Florida State	Florida State	Florida State

So there you have it, college football fans. Trust one over the others? Go with those picks. Like to mix and match? Have at it. Want to completely ignore this information and go rogue? Well, that’s fine. Let us know in the comments what you like and dislike here.