College football bowl season begins Saturday morning and doesn’t let up until after the calendar turns to 2024.
For those competing in confidence pools, which require entrants to pick the winner of all 41 bowl games straight up and assign a confidence rating (1 being least confident to 41 being most) to each, SI Betting broke down each game.
Spreads can be informative for such an exercise, as it’s rather easy to pencil in a double-digit favorite as a winner, but with transfer portal news, opt-outs and coaching changes, there’s a lot more to parse in these postseason matchups.
Myrtle Beach Bowl: Georgia Southern (6–6) vs. Ohio (9–3)
Spread: Georgia Southern -3.5
Game Info: Dec. 16, 11 a.m. ET | ESPN
The Eagles dropped their final four games to end the season while the Bobcats won their last three. Ohio, however, lost quarterback Curtis Rourke, leading rusher Sieh Bangura and top receiver Miles Cross to the transfer portal. That kind of shakeup is difficult to overcome, but the Bobcats still have a top-five scoring defense to fall back on against Eagles quarterback Davis Brin, who tossed an FBS-high 16 interceptions this season.
Pick: Ohio
Confidence: 6
