65 Predictions, #59 & 58

Well, it's my birthday today, and so I am going to give you a gift: you get 2 predictions today! Mostly because I didn't get around to yesterday's prediction yesterday.

#59: The Commander-In-Chief Trophy will remain in Annapolis this year. In case you do not know what this is, I will explain: it is the trophy given to the winner of the triangular rivalry of Army, Air Force, and Navy. Navy and Air Force play the first weekend in October, Air Force and Army play the first weekend in November, and Army and Navy play the first weekend in December. For the past several years, Navy has taken home the trophy. I predict they do the same this year. In the event of a 3-way tie, the "title" is shared, but the trophy remains with last year's winner. Thus I predict Navy will retain the trophy due to a shared or outright title.

#58: The Sun Belt will send two teams bowling again this season. Last year for the first time in the conference's history, they had 4 bowl-eligible teams AND 2 of them went to bowl games. The streak of multiple bowl bids continues this year. After this season they will ink a contract for the second bowl bid, instead of sending a second team in "at-large" fashion (b/c other conferences don't have enough qualifiers to send to their contracted games.) I predict: at least Troy, Florida Atlantic, and Arkansas State will qualify for bowl games, and at least two of them will go. Troy, as conference champion, will get the lone guaranteed berth.