The Sharkey's College Bowl Challenge

This is the first of what is to be 6 annual thesharkey.com challenges. These challenges are basically just another way to make sport postseasons more exciting.

Everybody does the college basketball brackets. This is taking them to the next level. Why do you only get that excitement for one of the 6 major sports? Why can't you get it in all 6? Now you can.

Here's what happens. All 28 bowls are given a "value" between 1 and 10. Anyone who is interested picks the winner of each bowl game. If you get it right, you get however many points is alloted to that bowl.

Before anyone goes and complains about why this bowl gets this many points, etc., know this, the point values were determined a few weeks ago, before any bowl games had any schools committed to them.

There are six groups of bowls with four teams in each group. These groups get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 points assigned to them. A seventh group, the Orange, Sugar & Fiesta Bowls, get 8 points assigned to them. And the last bowl, the Rose Bowl, gets 10 points.

After the Rose Bowl is over, whoever has the most points is the winner, and gets bragging rights until next December.

If you want in, the deadline is by the morning of Saturday, December 17th. Either get me all 28 winners of yours before then, or send them to me all now. Whenever you'd like. You can just IM them to me: Shark675. Feel free to IM me as many times as you want between now & then and change some of your picks. Once I have everyones picks I will post them all on here, so if you want you can keep track yourself, or at least see what you're up against.

Good luck. You'll probably need it, because there is no way I'm not winning this sucker.

Here's the lineup:

1-point Bowl Games:
New Orleans Bowl, December 20th
Southern Miss vs Arkansas State
GMAC Bowl, December 21st
UTEP vs Toledo
Las Vegas Bowl, December 22nd
BYU vs California
Poinsettia Bowl, December 22nd
Colorado State vs Navy

2-points Bowl Games:
Forth Worth Bowl, December 23rd
Kansas vs Houston
Hawaii Bowl, December 24th
Nevada vs UCF
Motor City Bowl, December 26th
Memphis vs Akron
Champ Sports Bowl, December 27th
Clemson vs Colorado

3-points Bowl Games:
Insight Bowl, December 27th
Arizona State vs Rutgers
MPC Computers Bowl, December 28th
Boise State vs Boston College
Alamo Bowl, December 28th
Michigan vs Nebraska
Emerald Bowl, December 29th
Georgia Tech vs Utah

4-points Bowl Games:
Holiday Bowl, December 29th
Oregon vs Oklahoma
Music City Bowl, December 30th
Minnesota vs Virginia
Sun Bowl, December 30th
Northwestern vs UCLA
Independence Bowl, December 30th
South Carolina vs Missouri

5-points Bowl Games:
Peach Bowl, December 30th
Miami vs LSU
Meineke Car Care Bowl, December 31st
South Florida vs N.C. State
Liberty Bowl, December 31st
Tulsa vs Fresno State
Houston Bowl, December 31st
TCU vs Iowa State

6-points Bowl Games:
Cotton Bowl, January 2nd
Texas Tech vs Alabama
Outback Bowl, January 2nd
Iowa vs Florida
Gator Bowl, January 2nd
Louisville vs Virginia Tech
Capital One Bowl, January 2nd
Wisconsin vs Auburn

8-points Bowl Games:
Fiesta Bowl, January 2nd
Notre Dame vs Ohio State
Sugar Bowl, January 2nd
Georgia vs West Virginia
Orange Bowl, January 3rd
Florida State vs Penn State

10-point Bowl Game:
Rose Bowl, January 4th
Texas vs USC

138 points is highest possible score. Good luck!

And quickly, here's this weeks SCS Top 15:

1. USC 12-0 120 (lw: 1)
2. Texas 12-0 112 (lw: 2)
3. Penn State 10-1 104 (lw: 3)
4. Notre Dame 9-2 94 (lw: 6)
5. Ohio State 9-2 87 (lw: 7)
6. Georgia 10-2 75 (lw: 11)
7. Oregon 10-1 69 (lw: 8)
8. Miami 9-2 61 (lw: 9)
9. Auburn 9-2 60 (lw: 10)
10. West Virginia 10-1 52 (lw: 12)
11. Virginia Tech 10-2 45 (lw: 5)
12. LSU 10-2 33 (lw: 4)
13. TCU 10-1 17 (lw: 14)
14. Louisville 9-2 14 (lw: unr)
15. Alabama 9-2 8 (lw: 15)

Dropped out: UCLA
Others receiving votes: Florida State (6), UCLA (3)