 Welcome to the Fandle Hurry Up. I'm Ariel Epstein joined now by Gabe Marenzi. Gabe, how excited are you for these New Year's six balls? Great time of the year to be a college football fan. We've got some great opportunities on the board this week, Ariel. New Year's Eve, two o'clock Eastern time. We have the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl between Florida State and Arizona State. Total 54 and a half spread at four favoring Arizona State. Are you laying the points? Now this is one of my favorite bowl games and it always has been the Sun Bowl tradition. You can set your watch by it. And the Sun Bowl to me has always been the official start to New Year's Eve. Like it's acceptable to start drinking when the Sun Bowl starts. You start drinking before the Sun Bowl starts. You might have yourself a drinking problem. You start drinking at two in the afternoon. You don't have a problem. You're just a Sun Bowl fan. But I got to tell you, many a New Year's Eve, many a New Year's Eve in the Marenzi household has gotten started during the Sun Bowl. Always been a fan of this football game. One thing I'm not a fan of is laying points with Pac-12 teams in bowl games though. This is unbelievable guys. In the last 25 bowls that the Pac-12 has been in. All right, the last 25 bowls that the Pac-12 has been in, they've only covered three times. That's right, three times. We're now talking about a 3 and 22 ATS run by the Pac-12. Now I know, Florida State have a new coach coming in with coach Mike Norval. I actually like that. I think they might've found their guy and Norval will have a watchful eye over this football game. FSU have more blue chip talent and skill position players than Arizona State does. And listen, I love Herm Edwards. I think Herm's done a very good job. Not great, but very, very, very good job with Arizona State. But with that being stated, they're without their top wide receiver and they're without their top running back. Both who have decided to forgo this game to prepare for the national football league draft. Yeah, I know, I know Acres isn't there for FSU, but FSU's passing attack is pretty lethal. And I'll tell you what, the Seminoles weakness is their secondary. I'm not so sure Arizona State's gonna be able to take advantage of it. As I stated, I'll take Florida State. Yeah, I know. They're not a perfect football team, but they play hard. They hung around with the Florida Gators. They have the talent to win this game outright. Give me the four points with the Florida State Seminoles. Happy New Year. Navy, facing off with Kansas State in the Liberty Bowl at 345 Eastern time. Gabe, since you're already gonna be kind of drinking at that point, what's your pick? Well, I'm not saying that I'm going to be drinking because I'm a professional, unfortunately. As I, hey, I'd like nothing better to get smashed at two in the afternoon and watch the Sun Bowl. But I know that we're gonna be cashing tickets. And I'm gonna be cashing another ticket here with the Mide's Navy. We already gave you guys Air Force last week and Air Force continued the theme. You know, military academy teams now guys are 35 and 14. 35 and 14 against the spread in bowl games, all right? They don't let up. They get up for every game. It's a very difficult attack to face. If you don't see it every year, it's relentless. They just run the ball like 75 times and it wears you out. You know, even these like blue ship programs, they're not quite used to dealing with an onslaught rushing attack that the military academies bring to the table. Let's dig in a little bit deeper though right now. So I'm sure you're thinking to yourself, well, yeah, and I've had people throw this back at me. Well, the military academy teams, they're 35 and 14 against the spread in bowl games, but they're probably always underdogs. That's why they have such a great record against the spread because they weren't great over the years. Wrong! Wrong! And in fact, let's dig in. Military schools, 10 and one against the spread in bowl games when favored by seven points or less. We're talking about a Navy academy. They're a 10 and two football team. They're only losses were against Notre Dame and Memphis. They're the real deal. This isn't your grandpa's military academy football team. They play in a real conference, man. They play against Houston. They play against Memphis. They play against SMU. They play against fast teams. Kansas State is not a fast team. Kansas State historically struggle in bowl games as well. You have a coach for K-States, gonna be coaching in his first ever bowl game. I'm not getting in front of this naval academy. They're a damn good football team and they're gonna continue the tradition of military academy teams covering in bowl games. The Navy wins. When you see a military academy team playing in a bowl game, you in list. Sign me up. LT Smash it! Switching over to the New Year's Day games. I know, Gabe, you're excited for this one with Michigan facing off with Alabama in the Citrus Bowl. However, you're not taking a side in this one. What are you doing? Well, this is a really, really tricky football game. And I am a Michigan Wolverine fan, which knows I know that Michigan suck in bowl games. You have to figure that eventually, a hardball is gonna win a big football game and this would be a pretty big win. Michigan are kind of in a decent spot here. In the sense that if they get blown out, people will just sort of shrug their shoulders, roll their eyes and say, oh, well, a hardball got blown out again in a big game. They come in here almost playing with house money. There's no pressure on Michigan right now. People really are talking about this football game. People are talking about the motivation factor for Alabama in this spot. It's the first time that Alabama is not in the college football playoff. In the first five years, they were in the playoffs every time. So, you know, the motivation factor is real. Alabama lost a couple of defensive players and, you know, really good defensive players, but their offense went on skates. Everybody's coming back and playing in this game, even though a bunch of them are going to the National Football League anyways, which tells you they actually do care about this spot. Alabama are the more talented football team. Michigan getting seven points is attractive, but ultimately I think the way to go here, Ariel, is just to bet the over. Why overcomplicate things here? We got a total of 58 points. You know what you wanna hear something crazy about Alabama this year? The Alabama Crimson Tide have scored 35 or more points in every game that they played this year. Think about that. Yeah, and they lost two of them. They scored 35 or more. In fact, they scored like 45 or more in most of them, to be honest, even when they lost to Auburn, they got to 45, right? Or 46, whatever it was, 48, 46. Bama could put points on the board. When people think of Alabama football, you know, they used to sort of think of defense and, you know, Greg McElroy and a game manager at quarterback. Mac Jones can sling it around. They've got NFL caliber wide receivers that Michigan are gonna have a hard time dealing with for 60 minutes on a football field. Meanwhile, Michigan are nine and three to the over in their own right. Michigan have been putting up points on the board. They've scored 38 or more points in four of their last five games. So where we're going with this game is the over. I think it's gonna be a track meet and this game is gonna get into the 60s, maybe 70s. We only have to get to 59 to win the bad arrow. Michigan and Alabama go over the number. Keeping it on New Year's Day, Minnesota versus Auburn in the outback bowl. Minnesota coming off one of its best seasons, seven and two in conference play in the Big Ten West tied with Wisconsin. So Gabe, are you on this Minnesota bandwagon or are you just thinking Auburn, SEC, no doubt? You know what, I was on the Minnesota goal for a bandwagon earlier in the year, Ariel. But the things with bandwagons is they crash and you have to get off before it crashes. And, you know, we saw the Gophers reality kick in a little bit down the stretch, losing two of their last three football games. They're dealing with a very, very, very, very good Auburn team here. This Auburn team is real good. If you look at the teams that Auburn lost to, you know, they lost to the elite programs. In fact, at the time, every team that Auburn lost to is ranked in the top seven. All right, they're that good. And we saw this Auburn team beat Alabama. We also saw Gus Malzahn talk about how he thinks that Bo Nix is gonna be a national champion. He said, I got a guy right here that's gonna be a national champion. He was sending a message to everybody. He was sending a message to the boosters. He was sending a message to the program. He was sending a message to the kids. He was sending a message to the other teams at a conference that Auburn is playing for real next year. You know, Gus Malzahn's a national championship caliber coach, but he's sort of really up or down. Like you look at his career, it's a lot like Eli Manning. You know what I mean? Eli Manning was kind of average, but he won a couple of Super Bowls, right? Gus Malzahn's been kind of average, but he's got quite a few big wins on the resume. He's also got some talent here as well. So, you know, it's the outback bowl. It's hard to keep up with these stupid names. You know, the citrus, the outback, and, you know, and everything else, the Walmart bowl and everything else in between. But I'll tell you one thing about this game in Tampa, the outback bowl, it's SEC versus Big Ten, and the SEC has owned it. There's seven and three straight up in the last 10 outback bowls. I expect this to improve to eight and three here. Auburn's just gonna be too much in the trenches. Minnesota have big kids. Minnesota's old line is good. Minnesota have a couple of really, really, really good wide receivers, but they're not gonna match up with Auburn's skill over the course of this football game. I normally don't like laying points here. I'm more of an underdog better even when it comes to college football. And I'd like to take the Big Ten because the Big Ten is great in bowl games, but they're not great against the SEC. And I just think this is gonna end poorly for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Auburn Tigers 6-0 against the spread in the last six non-conference games as well as the Auburn Tigers are 10 and two against the spread. The last 12 times they've laid points as a favorite as well. SEC beats the Big Ten in the outback bowl. Another Big Ten team and in a bowl game that you can't really say is a no-name bowl because it's the Rose Bowl. And it seems if you're not in the college football playoff, this is the bowl game that seems the most prestigious or at least one of them. It's Wisconsin against Oregon at five o'clock on New Year's Day. Gabe, are you going Big Ten here? It's the granddaddy of them all. And you know what? I've been to the national championship game before. I was there when Tim Tebow played against Sam Bradford in Miami, Florida. I had the over, didn't go well, all right? I've been to Super Bowls. I've been to national championships. I've been to NBA Finals. I've been to Stanley Cup Finals. I have one thing on a bucket list actually, Ariel. And I even used to live in Los Angeles and I never went to the Rose Bowl because Michigan didn't play in it when I was there. I've always wanted to see my Michigan Wolverines in Pasadena and go to a Rose Bowl. And hopefully Harbock can make it happen. Make it happen, coach. But we do have the Big Ten representative here in the Wisconsin Badgers taken on the docks. And I got to tell you, this might be one of my better bats although you got to be careful and you never, no one game is better than another actually ever guys. But let's just say I really like this one. As of this taping right now, as I speak to the lovely Ariel Epstein, the Big Ten has beaten the Pac-12 in 11 straight bowl games. All right, they freaking own them. We've talked about it though. The Pac-12, we talked about the last 25 bowl games that the Pac-12 have played in. They've only covered three times. It's unbelievable. There's three and 22 guys against the spreader in the last 25 bowl games. I was on the docks against the Utes. I don't like the docks here. The physicality of the Wisconsin Badgers is going to be too much. You guys remember, man, Wisconsin gave Ohio State all that they can handle. Wisconsin's an elite football team. All right, and it's usually quarterback play that holds them back, conservative play calling. Their quarterback play is just a little bit better now. And I'll tell you, speaking of better, Jonathan Taylor, there's not a lot of running backs better than this kid, all right? This kid is going to be a stud in the National Football League. He's going to be a stud in Pasadena on New Year's Day. I don't think Oregon's going to be able to stop them. I also think the total is a little bit low here. When you think of Wisconsin, you sort of think of blue collar and cheese heads. But the fact of the matter is, they can score the Badgers offense, put up nearly 35 points a game. They're going to put up points against this Pac-12 team. Wisconsin are on a four and one overrun right now. Meanwhile, the Oregon docks have scored 34 or more points in seven of their last eight football games. We have a total in the low fifties here, and we're going to have some beautiful weather out there in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. The Big Ten is going to win this football game. Love the Badgers here. Badgers win in a high scoring entertaining affair. Those are Gabe's best bets for Gabe Marenzi. I'm Ariel Epstein. Thanks for joining us here on the FanDuel Hurry Up.