Play the Hlog's Bowl Contest, win valuable prizes!

OK, I don't know what the prize will be, or how valuable it will be. It will be something I acquire at the Orange Bowl, undoubtedly as a freebie.

Or there will be no prize whatsoever.

But you people aren't mercenaries. You're good folks who still believe a job well done is reward enough. You built the railroads, the bridges, the skyscrapers. You dug the coal. You worked in the factories and fields. Yours were the hands that made America!

And now, it's time to reward you. I will list the bowl games from Dec. 24 through Jan. 8 and their Nevada pointspreads. You will pick six -- any six -- teams against the spread. (For instance, if you pick Nevada, you're saying Nevada will beat SMU in the Hawaii Bowl by more than 12 points.)

The tiebreaker is the number of rushing yards Georgia Tech gains in the Orange Bowl. You need a tiebreaker to, uh, break the tie should you end up, uh, tied for the lead.

The person with the best record will be praised here next Jan. 8 and will be inducted into the Hlog's Hall of Fame at our annual ceremony sometime next year, depending on when the banquet room is available.

The deadline for entry is 6 p.m., Central time, Christmas Eve. Pick six teams and list a tiebreaker in the

comments box. Good luck, and please, drive safely.

Hawaii: Nevada by 12 over SMU

Little Caesars: Ohio by 3 over Marshall

Meineke Car Care: Pittsburgh by 2.5 over North Carolina

Emerald: USC by 7 over Boston College

Music City: Clemson by 7 over Kentucky

Independence: Georgia by 7 over Texas A&M

EagleBank: UCLA by 5.5 over Temple

Champs Sports: Miami by 3 over Wisconsin

Humanitarian: Bowling Green by 2 over Idaho

Holiday: Arizona by 1 over Nebraska

Texas: Missouri by 6.5 over Navy

Armed Forces: Houston by 4 over Air Force

Sun: Oklahoma by 8.5 over Stanford

Insight: Minnesota by 1.5 over Iowa State

Chick-Fil-A: Virginia Tech by 5.5 over Tennessee

Outback: Auburn by 7 over Northwestern

Gator: West Virginia by 3 over Florida State

Capital One: Penn State by 2.5 over LSU

Rose: Oregon by 3.5 over Ohio State

Sugar: Florida by 11.5 over Cincinnati

International: South Florida by 7 over Northern Illinois

Papajohns.com: South Carolina by 4 over Connecticut

Cotton: Mississippi by 3 over Oklahoma State

Liberty: Arkansas by 7 over East Carolina

Alamo: Texas Tech by 7.5 over Michigan State

Fiesta: TCU by 7 over Boise State

Orange: Georgia Tech by 4 over Iowa (Gee, will anyone take the Hawkeyes?)

GMAC: Central Michigan by 3 over Troy

BCS: Alabama by 3.5 over Texas

All controversies will be settled by me. And if there aren't any controversies, I'll invent one.