College bowl pools: Printable schedules, confidence picks

Need help with your bowl confidence pools? Our experts have you covered with picks, printable pool sheets and more.

By CBS Sports College Football Staff Dec 19, 2014 at 9:37 am ET • 3 min read

'Tis the season to be confident.

The college football "confidence pool" is gathering momentum as an annual rite of bowl season for both diehard and casual fans, and the crew from Eye on College Football will be among the participants in this year's competition.

If you're not familiar with the confidence pool concept, it goes like this:

Decide whether you want to just pick prospective winners, or play against the spread. Here's the current lines for all 38 bowls.

Rank your picks in order of how confident you are that you've picked the right side, numbering them from 38 (most confident) to 1 (least confident).

Every time you pick the right winner or against-the-spread winner, you get the number of confidence points you've assigned to that game. When bowl season ends, after you've wiped up your tears of mourning over the end of another college football season, tally up your points and compare with your friends, with whom you've been competing for entertainment purposes only.

If you'd like to compete against your friends at Eye on College Football, or use their confidence pool picks as a guide for your own competition, see below.

Again, Tom Fornelli is most confident that Stanford will beat Maryland, so he's assigned them 38 points, and he thinks San Diego Stae will beat Navy, but isn't going to put any of his collection of vintage cars on the line to emphasize that point, so he's assigned that result a 1.

Expert Picks: Bowl Confidence Pool
Confidence number	Fornelli	Hinnen	Patterson	Fornelli	Hinnen	Patterson
Straight Up			Vs. Spread
Points earned	420	459	371	296	370	274
38	vs. MD	vs. MD	vs. PSU	vs. WMICH	vs. OKST	vs. PSU
37	vs. GATECH	vs. OKST	vs. NAVY	vs. BYU	vs. CLEM	vs. NAVY
36	vs. OHST	vs. TEXAS	vs. MICHST	vs. NCST	vs. NEB	vs. MICHST
35	vs. DUKE	vs. UTEP	vs. NEB	vs. NEV	vs. TEXAS	vs. OREG
34	vs. OKST	vs. NEB	vs. WMICH	vs. UTEP	vs. BOISE	vs. WMICH
33	vs. NEB	vs. CLEM	vs. DUKE	vs. BGREEN	vs. MIAMI	vs. UCLA
32	vs. NIU	vs. KSTATE	vs. OLEMISS	vs. CMICH	vs. NAVY	vs. NEB
31	vs. UTEP	vs. LVILLE	vs. OHIOST	vs. NAVY	vs. KSTATE	vs. COST
30	vs. ND	vs. NIU	vs. UCLA	vs. ND	vs. UTEP	vs. OLEMISS
29	vs. COST	vs. GATECH	vs. COST	vs. COST	vs. MD	vs. BAMA
28	vs. LOU	vs. BOISE	vs. GATECH	vs. BOISE	vs. LATECH	vs. UGA
27	vs. TEX	vs. NAVY	vs. TXAM	vs. TOL	vs. TCU	vs. BYU
26	vs. BGREEN	vs. COST	vs. WISC	vs. HOU	vs. WMICH	vs. DUKE
25	vs. ECU	vs. WMICH	vs. MD	vs. KSTATE	vs. NEV	vs. ARK
24	vs. NEV	vs. WISC	vs. UTEP	vs. NIU	vs. LVILLE	vs. TXAM
23	vs. PSU	vs. NEV	vs. BYU	vs. GATECH	vs. COLOST	vs. STAN
22	vs. WVU	vs. MIAMI	vs. ECU	vs. MIAMI	vs. NIU	vs. ARIZ
21	vs. CLEM	vs. ND	vs. ILL	vs. PSU	vs. BAMA	vs. AUB
20	vs. BOISE	vs. CMICH	vs. OREG	vs. RICE	vs. BYU	vs. CLEM
19	vs. WISC	vs. SALA	vs. ND	vs. MIZZOU	vs. SALA	vs. MINN
18	vs. MINN	vs. BYU	vs. CLEM	vs. TENN	vs. CMICH	vs. UTEP
17	vs. HOU	vs. MICHST	vs. UCF	vs. CLEM	vs. GATECH	vs. CINCY
16	vs. KSTATE	vs. TCU	vs. MINN	vs. OKST	vs. OREG	vs. MRSHL
15	vs. TENN	vs. ECU	vs. TEXAS	vs. FLA	vs. MIZZOU	vs. LSU
14	vs. TOL	vs. IOWA	vs. NIU	vs. CINCY	vs. MICHST	vs. UCF
13	vs. WMICH	vs. LATECH	vs. RUT	vs. BAY	vs. ARIZST	vs. ILL
12	vs. BYU	vs. ARKST	vs. UGA	vs. UNC	vs. FLA	vs. GATECH
11	vs. LATECH	vs. DUKE	vs. ARIZ	vs. WVU	vs. NCST	vs. RUT
10	vs. CMICH	vs. FSU	vs. OKST	vs. LATECH	vs. ND	vs. OKST
9	vs. UNC	vs. WVU	vs. CINCY	vs. MISS	vs. WISC	vs. RICE
8	vs. NCST	vs. NCST	vs. RICE	vs. ARIZST	vs. ARKST	vs. FLA
7	vs. CINCY	vs. VATECH	vs. SCAR	vs. UGA	vs. IOWA	vs. SCAR
6	vs. MIAMI	vs. MIZZOU	vs. CMICH	vs. WISC	vs. WVU	vs. CMICH
5	vs. RICE	vs. BC	vs. HOU	vs. ARK	vs. VATECH	vs. HOU
4	vs. OREG	vs. RUT	vs. ULL	vs. OHST	vs. UNC	vs. ULL
3	vs. MISS	vs. FRES	vs. IOWA	vs. MD	vs. BC	vs. IOWA
2	vs. BAY	vs. BAMA	vs. ARKST	vs. OREG	vs. FRES	vs. ARKST
1	vs. NAVY	vs. PITT	vs. BGREEN	vs. NEB	vs. PITT	vs. BGREEN