Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=20508732'>posted</a> on 12/09/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by TiredPro View Post
Reaper, I personally believe motivation may be the single biggest factor in bowl handicapping. Are you able to account for that in your simulations of bowl games ?
I actually handicap for the bowl season totally different than the regular year because you are absolutely right. Some teams can care less that they are where they are and other teams have alot to prove etc. So I do still run sims to get an idea of the flow but i put ALOT of weight on the motivation factors