{"id":519,"date":"2018-12-31T21:53:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T21:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=519"},"modified":"2018-12-31T21:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T21:53:30","slug":"2018-holiday-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2018-holiday-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Holiday Bowl Utah v Northwestern"},"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 Holiday Bowl Pac-12 v Big Ten<\/h2>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Holiday Bowl is the poor man&#8217;s Rose Bowl given that both lost in their respective conference finals to Washington &amp; Ohio State respectively, and those two will clash in the Rose Bowl Tomorrow. Still, this is a nice consolation,\u00a0especially for Northwestern who few would have predicted to finish ranked this year. They will struggle to keep hold of head coach\u00a0Pat Fitzgerald after this showing.<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern started slowly going 1-3, however, showed signs\u00a0of getting it right when narrowly losing to Michigan 20-17 in game four. They then won 8out of 9 to end the season, with that solitary defeat coming against playoff-bound Notre Dame. They got a bit of a hammering\u00a0in the Conference Final from Ohio State, but given Bowl eligibility was\u00a0probably their preseason target this has been a great season for them.<\/p>\n<p>Utah was\u00a0one\u00a0of our preseason darkhorse tips for a NY6 bowl berth and they came mighty close losing 10-3 in the Pac Conference\u00a0final\u00a0thanks to a deflected pass. The PAC 12 has not had a vintage season however Utah are clearly the third best and there is only one questionable loss on their resume &#8211; to Arizona\u00a0State. Utah doesn&#8217;t\u00a0give up a lot of yards or points for that matter and this probably makes them favourites given Northwestern leaned on their defence a lot for their victories.<\/p>\n<p>This has the look of a one-score game and points should be at a premium. Utah starts as 6.5 points favourite and we think they will just cover it.<\/p>\n<p>Our prediction is for Utah to win 17-10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit squarelogo\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2018 Holiday Bowl Pac-12 v Big Ten This year&#8217;s Holiday Bowl is the poor man&#8217;s Rose Bowl given that both lost in their respective conference finals to Washington &amp; Ohio State respectively, and those two will clash in the Rose Bowl Tomorrow. Still, this is a nice consolation,\u00a0especially for Northwestern who few would have&#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":[7,12,24],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-ten-conference","category-pac-12-conference","category-power-five","tag-holiday-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"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=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}