# Week 15 CFB -- Which AP Top Ten team(s) will lose? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-15-cfb-which-ap-top-ten-team-s-will-lose/675225 "2013-12-01T18:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-15-cfb-which-ap-top-ten-team-s-will-lose/675225/41 "2013-12-09T18:45:41Z")
Referring to [2013-14 college football bowl schedule](http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--2013-14-college-football-bowl-schedule-015528935.html) here’s a suggestion for the four threads: 2013-14 college football bowl schedule. By Yahoo! Sports Staff ======================================= BCS bowls (5 Games - 10 Teams – Pick Teams to LOSE) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif. - 5 p.m. ET, Jan. 1 Michigan State vs. Stanford Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz. - 8:30 p.m. ET, Jan. 1 Baylor vs. Central Florida Sugar Bowl New Orleans, La. - 8:30 p.m. ET, Jan. 2 Alabama vs. Oklahoma Orange Bowl Miami, Fla. - 8:30 p.m. ET, Jan. 3 Clemson vs. Ohio State BCS title game Pasadena, Calif. - 8:30 p.m. ET, Jan. 6 Florida State vs. Auburn ============================== All other bowls (Pick “Favored Team” to Lose) ===================================== Early Games (11) Gildan New Mexico Bowl Albuquerque, N.M. - 2 p.m. ET, Dec. 21 Washington State vs. Colorado State Royal Purple Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nev. - 3:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 21 Fresno State vs. USC Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise, Idaho - 5:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 21 San Diego State vs. Buffalo New Orleans Bowl New Orleans, La. - 9 p.m. ET, Dec. 21 Tulane vs. La.-Lafayette Beef O’Brady’s St. Petersburg Bowl St. Petersburg, Fla. - 2 p.m. ET, Dec. 23 Ohio vs. East Carolina Hawaii Bowl Honolulu, Hawaii - 8 p.m. ET, Dec. 24 Oregon State vs. Boise State Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Detroit, Mich. - 6 p.m. ET, Dec. 26 Pittsburgh vs. Bowling Green Poinsettia Bowl San Diego, Calif. - 9:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 26 Northern Illinois vs. Utah State Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. - 2:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 27 Maryland vs. Marshall Texas Bowl Houston, Texas - 6 p.m. ET, Dec. 27 Syracuse vs. Minnesota Fight Hunger Bowl San Francisco, Calif. - 9:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 27 Washington vs. BYU ===================================== Middle Games (8) Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y. - 12 p.m. ET, Dec. 28 Notre Dame vs. Rutgers Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. - 3:20 p.m. ET, Dec. 28 North Carolina vs. Cincinnati Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. - 6:45 p.m. ET, Dec. 28 Miami vs. Louisville Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl Tempe, Ariz. - 10:15 p.m. ET, Dec. 28 Kansas State vs. Michigan Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas - 11:45 a.m. ET, Dec. 30 Navy vs. Middle Tennessee State Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn. - 3:15 p.m. ET, Dec. 30 Mississippi vs. Georgia Tech Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas - 6:45 p.m. ET, Dec. 30 Texas vs. Oregon Holiday Bowl San Diego, Calif. - 10:15 p.m. ET, Dec. 30 Arizona State vs. Texas Tech ===================================== Late Games (11) AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. - 12:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 31 Arizona vs. Boston College Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas - 2 p.m. ET, Dec. 31 Virginia Tech vs. UCLA Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn. - 4 p.m. ET, Dec. 31 Mississippi State vs. Rice Chick-fil-A Bowl Atlanta, Ga. - 8 p.m. ET, Dec. 31 Texas A&M vs. Duke Gator Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. - 12 p.m. ET, Jan. 1 Georgia vs. Nebraska Heart of Dallas Bowl Dallas, Texas - 12 p.m. ET, Jan. 1 UNLV vs. North Texas Capital One Bowl Orlando, Fla. - 1 p.m. ET, Jan. 1 South Carolina vs. Wisconsin Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. - 1 p.m. ET, Jan. 1 LSU vs. Iowa Cotton Bowl Arlington, Texas - 7:30 p.m. ET, Jan. 3 Missouri vs. Oklahoma State BBVA Compass Bowl Birmingham, Ala. - 1 p.m. ET, Jan. 4 Houston vs. Vanderbilt GoDaddy Bowl Mobile, Ala. - 9 p.m. ET, Jan. 5 Ball State vs. Arkansas State ============================== Ideas for improvements to this approach? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-15-cfb-which-ap-top-ten-team-s-will-lose/675225/42 "2013-12-09T20:39:21Z")
As an example of how the “favored” team would be chosen, here’s how the Early Non-BCS bowls would go, based on the leftmost column at [http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm](http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm) ```auto All other bowls (Pick "Favored Team" == to Lose) ===================================== Early Games (11) Gildan New Mexico Bowl Washington State vs. Colorado State 31 vs 85 == Royal Purple Las Vegas Fresno State vs. USC 52 vs 20 == Famous Idaho Potato Bowl San Diego State vs. Buffalo 96 vs 67 == New Orleans Bowl Tulane vs. La.-Lafayette 83 vs 89 == Beef O'Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl Ohio vs. East Carolina 115 vs 56 == Hawaii Bowl Oregon State vs. Boise State 37 vs 43 == Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Pittsburgh vs. Bowling Green 59 vs 27 == Poinsettia Bowl Northern Illinois vs. Utah State 47 vs 46 == Military Bowl Maryland vs. Marshall 71 vs 63 == Texas Bowl Syracuse vs. Minnesota 68 vs 51 == Fight Hunger Bowl Washington vs. BYU 12 vs 30 == ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/week-15-cfb-which-ap-top-ten-team-s-will-lose/675225.md?page=2)