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January, 01 2010 1:00pm EST
ATS: Florida State Seminoles +3 (-120)
WIN for +4.17 unit(s)

Florida State Seminoles at West Virginia Mountaineers

At 1 pm, on New Year's Day, our selection is on the Florida State Seminoles + the points over West Virginia.  The "marquee" game on New Year's Day may not be the Rose Bowl between Oregon and Ohio State, or the Sugar Bowl between Cincinnati and Florida, but rather this game -- the Gator Bowl -- between a 6-6 Florida State squad and a 9-3 West Virginia Mountaineer team.  And that's because it will be the final game for 44-year head coach Bobby Bowden.  Ironically, Bowden had a coaching stint at WVU (along with one at Samford) before settling in as the face of the Florida State program.  In his career, he won 388 games, including a 315-97-4 record with the Seminoles.  I, for one, will greatly miss him, as its colorful coaches like him, Lou Holtz, Joe Paterno, Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes that made the College game great for me.
The Mountaineers opened as a 3-point favorite, but the number has ticked down to 2.5 (as of this writing), perhaps reflecting the sentiment of bettors that Florida State will send its coach into retirement with a win.  And I can't argue with that line of thought.  Bobby Bowden usually gets his team ready for the post-season, as evidenced by Florida State's 4-0-1 ATS Bowl run.  And his teams are at their best in Bowl games when they lost their last regular season game (FSU fell 37-10 at Florida at season's end).  In this situation, FSU has covered eight of nine Bowl games when not favored by more than 10 points.  West Virginia comes into today's contest off back to back SU/ATS upset wins over Big East foes Pitt and Rutgers.  And Bowl favorites (or Pk'em) off 2 straight wins and covers over conference foes are an awful 38-62 ATS in the Bowls since 1980.  Finally, ACC Conference teams are a superb 25-13 ATS as underdogs in Bowl games vs. foes off a win including 5-0 ATS since 2008.  Take Florida State.  Good luck, as always...Al McMordie.  And don't miss my other Winners in College Football today, and throughout the rest of the Bowl season, as we're having another winning campaign.

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