2012 Gus Rankings: Bowl Edition

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Want to know how Gus would perform in a bowl pick-em pool?  So do we.  Here's how he'd pick his winners and assign his confidence points.  (The final Gus Rankings are here, which incorporate last weekend's Army/Navy game.)  Confidence points are assigned in parenthesis by virtue of the difference in points in the Gus Rankings.  For games with the same difference in points, confidence points are then assigned by difference in ranking.  If that was the same, then the game with the higher ranked pair received more confidence (Gus is decidedly risk-preferring).  And Syracuse and West Virginia have the exact same record and the exact same number of points...so Gus claimed his Mountaineer roots for the last confidence wager.

Addendum: By request, here are the final conference rankings:

1. SEC: 17.43
2. Big 12: 12.30
3. Big 10: 9.00
4. Pac-12: 8.25
5. Big East: 1.75
6. ACC: -3.25
7. MAC: -7.95
8. WAC: -8.43
9. MWC: -10.40
10. Sun Belt: -10.50
11. C-USA: -19.33

New Mexico				Nevada vs. Arizona	Winner: Arizona (29)
Potato				Toledo vs. Utah State	Winner: Utah State (9)
Poinsietta				San Diego State vs. BYU	Winner: San Diego State (26)
St. Petersburg				Ball State vs. UCF	Winner: Ball State (18)
New Orleans				East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette	Winner: Louisiana-Lafayette (10)
Las Vegas				Boise State vs. Washington	Winner: Boise State (21)
Hawaii				SMU vs. Fresno State	Winner: Fresno State (33)
Little Caesars				Western Kentucky vs. Central Michigan	Winner: Western Kentucky (17)
Military				San Jose State vs. Bowling Green	Winner: San Jose State (32)
Belk				Duke vs. Cincinnati	Winner: Cincinnati (30)
Holiday				UCLA vs. Baylor	Winner: UCLA (22)
Independence				Louisiana-Monroe vs. Ohio	Winner: Louisiana-Monroe (13)
Russell Athletic				Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers	Winner: Rutgers (28)
Texas				Minnesota vs. Texas Tech	Winner: Texas Tech (23)
Armed Forces				Rice vs. Air Force	Winner: Air Force (8)
Fight Hunger				Arizona State vs. Navy	Winner: Navy (24)
Pinstripe				Syracuse vs. West Virginia	Winner: West Virginia (1)
Alamo				Texas vs. Oregon State	Winner: Oregon State (15)
Buffalo Wild Wings				Michigan State vs. TCU	Winner: Michigan State (11)
Music City				Vanderbilt vs. NC State	Winner: Vanderbilt (19)
Sun				Georgia Tech vs. USC	Winner: USC (27)
Liberty				Iowa State vs. Tulsa	Winner: Tulsa (31)
Chick-fil-A				Clemson vs. LSU	Winner: LSU (12)
Heart of Dallas				Purdue vs. Oklahoma State	Winner: Oklahoma State (25)
Gator				Mississippi State vs. Northwestern	Winner: Northwestern (14)
Capital One				Georgia vs. Nebraska	Winner: Nebraska (7)
Outback				South Carolina vs. Michigan	Winner: South Carolina (16)
Rose				Wisconsin vs. Stanford	Winner: Stanford (35)
Orange				Northern Illinois vs. Florida State	Winner: Northern Illinois (2)
Sugar				Florida vs. Louisville	Winner: Florida (34)
Fiesta				Oregon vs. Kansas State	Winner: Oregon (3)
Cotton				Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma	Winner: Oklahoma (5)
Compass				Pittsburgh vs. Mississippi	Winner: Pittsburgh (4)
GoDaddy.com				Kent State vs. Arkansas State	Winner: Kent State (6)
BCS Championship				Notre Dame vs. Alabama	Winner: Notre Dame (20)