{"id":502,"date":"2018-12-29T21:20:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=502"},"modified":"2018-12-29T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:23:34","slug":"2018-orange-bowl-oklahoma-v-alabama-cfp-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2018-orange-bowl-oklahoma-v-alabama-cfp-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Orange Bowl Oklahoma v Alabama CFP Semi Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-342 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/12\/By-squarelogo-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Five Minutes Spare College Football\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">2018 Orange Bowl SEC v Big 12<\/h2>\n<p>The 2018 Orange Bowl is the\u00a0second of the CFP Semi-Final games and pitches two teams who made the semis last season against each other. Las seasons Rose Bowl in which Oklahoma lost to Georgia in double overtime was one of the best Rose Bowls in years and shows that even if you have no defense\u00a0you can still put up a fight with the right QB. Alabama has\u00a0looked untouchable this season and blanking strong\u00a0SEC opposition in the shape of LSU &amp; Miss State makes them justifiable favourites in this one. Still,\u00a0Oklahoma were\u00a0the no 1 offense and thus have\u00a0&#8211; to steal a boxing\u00a0term a punchers chance.<\/p>\n<p>Wins wise Alabama have a perfect record after beating Georgia\u00a0in the SEC Championship, although The Bulldogs\u00a0did give them plenty to think about. The only other team to give them a game this year was when FCS The Citadel playing the triple option\u00a0put up a fight until halftime, and this may be the only chance, Oklahoma has a pretty decent running game which has not had much publicity this year thanks to Kyler Murray&#8217;s exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s only loss was a 3pointer to Texas, and they revenged that nicely in the Big 12 Championship. Apart from that, they had a lot of close games and struggled against Army with their triple option attack. Their defence has been absent for much of the year and they will have to get at least 5 stops in our opinion for them to win. Not sure that is going to happen hence our prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this looks like a win for Alabama but it might be a bit closer than the 14 point spread indicates.<\/p>\n<p>Our prediction is for Alabama to win 48-42 (providing Marquis Brown is playing otherwise the spread should be covered).<\/p>\n<p>For those who like to keep track of these things, we are 13-11 so far in our predictions &#8211; not too good after starting 6-1<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit squarelogo\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2018 Orange Bowl SEC v Big 12 The 2018 Orange Bowl is the\u00a0second of the CFP Semi-Final games and pitches two teams who made the semis last season against each other. Las seasons Rose Bowl in which Oklahoma lost to Georgia in double overtime was one of the best Rose Bowls in years and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,15,24],"tags":[110,109,111,43],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-coast-conference","category-big-12-conference","category-college-bowls","category-power-five","tag-alabama","tag-cfp-semi-final","tag-oklahoma","tag-orange-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}