Step
Pick the winner of 34 college football bowl games and rank them in order of how confident you are in each.
Step
You only need to make your picks once and you can compete against friends, family, and other football fans.
Step
Compete for your chance to win $2,000 in cash by making the most correct bowl game predictions.
Best Bowl Strategies
By Will Harris
ESPN.com
Archive
With Alabama and Florida battling it out in the SEC, Colt McCoy and Texas may have the clearest path to a spot in the National Championship game.
ESPN.com's free College Bowl Mania game will be familiar to those who have played College Pick 'Em. The principle is the same: Pick the winner of each game, then rank the games in the order of your confidence in those picks. The twist, of course, is that College Bowl Mania requires you to rank 34 games in order of confidence rather than the usual 10.
Handicapping bowl games can be both easier and trickier than regular-season games. Each team is a known commodity with a full body of work to dissect. However, the true stakes of each contest are not always readily apparent.
College football is unique among major sports in that teams compete for something other than the sport's overall championship during the postseason. That "something" is different from bowl to bowl, and each game's prize is not valued equally by the combatants.
If you understand what the game means to each team and which teams are highly motivated to prepare and play their best, you'll be well on your way to Bowl Mania success. You'll then know... MORE
Join Our Bowl Mania Message Boards
Have a group you'd like others to join? Do you think the right teams were selected for the right games? Let yourself be heard or just see what others have to say on the Bowl Mania Message Board.
Prizes
Play for your chance to win a $2,000 gift card and more!
Total ARV is $2,000