Stat Box Stories Introduces the Bowl Blitz Invitational

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As some of you may already know, I recently launched a website called Stat Box Stories where I'm using NCAA Football 12, Madden NFL 12, NHL 12, and FIFA 12 to play games, record statistics, post video highlights, and tell the stories of games I play every week. With Bowl Season beginning next Saturday, December 17th, I am trying to rally some interested guest writers to the cause of trying to create statistical write-ups of all of the Bowl Games for this 2011-2012 season.

If you have yet to read a write-up over at the blog site, here is the most recent example of work done using NCAA Football 12: the Army-Navy Game. Here also is the link to the guide for guest writers--Write a Guest Story--to give you some idea of what is looked for from guest contributors. Our own psuexv here at The Gaming Tailgate actually contributed the first guest story for the site this week, which you can read here: New York Islanders at Pittsburgh Penguins in NHL 12.

If you think you might be interested in contributing a Bowl Game write-up for publication at Stat Box Stories, consider the following guidelines below and then comment on this post with the game you would like to play:

Bowl Games in NCAA Football 12 can be played on whichever difficulty you like, so long as you specify it.
Bowl match-ups should be played in the designated bowl (obviously), and try to replicate the time of day for the bowl game.
Quarter lengths on the blog so far have been 7 minutes, but as long as you're playing at least 5 minute quarters you'll be fine.
Even if you use named rosters, the write-ups and statistical tracking should reference the player's position and number as though you were playing the game right out of the box. It takes a little bit of extra work when you're collecting the information--trust me, I do it every week--but it's not difficult.
If you sign up to do one of the Bowl Games, it must be completed and submitted before the game is played in real life so that it can be posted before the game.
The statistic spreadsheet template file is now available as a Google Doc here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...zQzQTJQcmtvelE If you choose to do a write-up for one of the games, please download the file to your computer and fill in the statistics, then email it to me along with the write-up and highlights.
Submissions will be emailed to paakaa10@gmail.com.
And here is the list of Bowl Games:

Date of Bowl Game Name of Bowl Game Away Home Time Claimed by: NCAA 12 Score Actual Game Score Total Score Differential

December 17th :New_Mexico_Bowl: :Temple: :Wyoming: 2:00PM ET Stat Box Stories
16 - 21

37 - 15

27 (21, 6)

December 17th :Humanitarian_Bowl:
(Famous Idaho Potato Bowl) :Ohio: :Utah_State: 5:30PM ET psuexv
28 - 16

24 - 23

11 (4, 7)

December 17th :New_Orleans_Bowl: :San_Diego_State: :Louisiana: 9:00PM ET psuexv
14 - 17

30 - 32

31 (16, 15)

December 20th :Beef_O_Bradys_Bowl: :FIU: :Marshall: 8:00PM ET psusnoop
23 - 34

10 - 20

27 (13, 14)

December 21st :Poinsettia_Bowl: :TCU: :Louisiana_Tech: 8:00PM ET psuexv
23 - 17 (OT)

31 - 24

15 (8, 7)

December 22nd :Las_Vegas_Bowl: :Arizona_State: :Boise_State: 8:00PM ET Stat Box Stories
38 - 34

24 - 56

36 (14, 22)

December 24th :Hawaii_Bowl: :Nevada: :Southern_Miss: 8:00PM ET souljahbill
24 - 28

17 - 24

11 (7, 4)

December 26th :Independence_Bowl: :Missouri: :North_Carolina: 5:00PM ET psusnoop
28 - 21

41 - 24

16 (13, 3)

December 27th :LittleCaesars_Bowl: :Western_Michigan: :Purdue: 4:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
36 - 40

32 - 37

7 (4, 3)

December 27th :Belk_Bowl: :Louisville: :NC_State: 8:00PM ET Owen Good (Kotaku)
11 - 35

24 - 31

17 (13, 4)

December 28th :Military_Bowl: :Toledo: :Air_Force: 4:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
45 - 28

42 - 41

16 (3, 13)

December 28th :Holiday_Bowl: :Cal: :Texas: 8:00PM ET psuexv
55 - 23

10 - 21

47 (45, 2)

December 29th :Champs_Sports_Bowl: :Florida_State: :Notre_Dame: 5:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
28 - 31

18 - 14

27 (10, 17)

December 29th :Alamo_Bowl: :Washington: :Baylor: 9:00PM ET JBHuskers
14 - 52

56 - 67

57 (42, 15)

December 30th :Armed_Forces_Bowl: :BYU: :Tulsa: 12:00PM ET Stat Box Stories
34 - 41 (2OT)

24 - 21

30 (10, 20)

December 30th :Pinstripe_Bowl:
(Bowl not in NCAA 12) :Rutgers: :Iowa_State: 3:20PM ET RedZoneD25
16 - 21

27 - 13

19 (11, 8)

December 30th :Music_City_Bowl: :Mississippi_State: :Wake_Forest: 6:40PM ET psuevx
10 - 7

23 - 17

23 (13, 10)

December 30th :Insight_Bowl: :Iowa: :Oklahoma: 10:00PM ET SGdirtyburt
20 - 13

14 - 31

24 (6, 18)

December 31st :Texas_Bowl:
(Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas) :Texas_A&M: :Northwestern: 12:00PM ET cdj
34 - 6

33 - 22

17 (1, 16)

December 31st :Sun_Bowl: :Georgia_Tech: :Utah: 2:00PM ET gschwendt
28 - 16

27 - 30 (OT)

15 (1, 14)

December 31st :Fight_Hunger_Bowl: :Illinois: :UCLA: 3:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
24 - 38

20 - 14

28 (4, 24)

December 31st :Liberty_Bowl: :Cincinnati: :Vanderbilt: 3:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
49 - 21

31 - 24

21 (18, 3)

December 31st :Chick_fil_A_Bowl: :Virginia: :Auburn: 7:30PM ET psusnoop
24 - 13

24 - 43

30 (0, 30)

January 2nd :TicketCity_Bowl: :Houston: :Penn_State: 12:00PM ET psuexv
7 - 45

30 - 14

54 (23, 31)

January 2nd :Capital_One_Bowl: :Nebraska: :South_Carolina: 1:00PM ET cdj
28 - 10

13 - 30

35 (15, 20)

January 2nd :Outback_Bowl: :Michigan_State: :Georgia: 1:00PM ET SGdirtyburt
7 - 30

33 - 30 (3OT)

26 (26, 0)

January 2nd :Gator_Bowl: :Ohio_State: :Florida: 1:00PM ET psuexv
19 - 24

17 - 24

2 (2, 0)

January 2nd :Rose_Bowl: :Wisconsin: :Oregon: 5:00PM ET Stat Box Stories
38 - 20

38 - 45

25 (0, 25)

January 2nd :Fiesta_Bowl: :Stanford: :Oklahoma_State: 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
16 - 45

38 - 41 (OT)

26 (22, 4)

January 3rd :Sugar_Bowl: :Michigan: :Virginia_Tech: 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
31 - 0

23 - 20

28 (8, 20)

January 4th :Orange_Bowl: :West_Virginia: :Clemson: 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
59 - 33

70 - 33

11 (11, 0)

January 6th :Cotton_Bowl: :Kansas_State: :Arkansas: 8:00PM ET steelerfan
12 - 3

16 - 29

30 (4, 26)

January 7th :BBVA_Compass_Bowl: :SMU: :Pitt: 1:00PM ET JBHuskers
38 - 35

28 - 6

39 (10, 29)

January 8th :GoDaddycom_Bowl: :Arkansas_State: :Northern_Illinois: 9:00PM ET gschwendt
31 - 17

20 - 38

32 (11, 21)

January 9th :BCS: :Alabama: :LSU: 8:30PM ET Stat Box Stories
14 - 3

21 - 0

10 (7, 3)

If we can get a write-up and statistics for every single Bowl Game, I will consider awarding a prize for the guest contributor whose game result (final score) most closely matched the actual result of the game in real life. In the event of a tie, the tie-breaker would be whichever game had the closest offensive yards for each team in the game compared to the real-life statistics.

If there are any questions, please comment and I will try to answer them; otherwise, sign up for the game you're interested in playing, and good luck!

12-11-2011, 09:07 AM
Paakaa10

As a follow-up; if anybody wants a Microsoft Excel template file for the statistics--the same file I used when I compile game statistics each week--I can make that available here.
12-11-2011, 11:42 AM
cdj

Brian,

Sign me up for the Capital One Bowl to start. I'll probably volunteer for more soon.

I'll post this in the News now.
12-11-2011, 12:02 PM
Paakaa10

Article: Stat Box Stories Introduces the Bowl Blitz Invitational

You can view the page at http://www.thegamingtailgate.com/for...z-Invitational
12-11-2011, 12:57 PM
Paakaa10

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdj

Brian,

Sign me up for the Capital One Bowl to start. I'll probably volunteer for more soon.

I'll post this in the News now.

Thanks for taking a game and for sharing this on the main page, Chris; hopefully the word will get around and we can get a lot of people involved on this!
12-11-2011, 04:36 PM
JeffHCross

Great idea Brian; I had a similar idea back in college for our Student TV station but I couldn't get anyone else to buy in. Now I see it on ESPN, for goodness sake. I don't have the time to help out, but if you want to bounce any ideas off me, you know where to find me.
12-13-2011, 11:22 AM
xRomo9

Good Stuff Brian
12-13-2011, 05:01 PM
psusnoop

Good stuff, I gotta decide on a game or two then I'll post here.

Anton stole PSU :D
12-13-2011, 09:13 PM
Paakaa10

Quote:

Originally Posted by psusnoop

Good stuff, I gotta decide on a game or two then I'll post here.

Anton stole PSU :D

Haha sorry about that; I figured--since there are a number of Penn State guys here--that it might be snagged early. Anything you might be interested in doing, I'd appreciate it!
12-14-2011, 07:54 AM
Paakaa10

The first Bowl Game of the season--the New Mexico Bowl between :Temple: and :Wyoming:--has now been posted at Stat Box Stories here: http://statboxstories.wordpress.com/...a-football-12/

Still looking for people who might want to play the other two December 17th Bowl Games so we can go 3-for-3 on opening weekend.
12-14-2011, 09:11 AM
JBHuskers

Paakaa, sign me up to do the Baylor / Washington game as we see how RGIII completes his career after winning the Heisman.
12-14-2011, 09:56 AM
psuexv

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paakaa10

The first Bowl Game of the season--the New Mexico Bowl between :Temple: and :Wyoming:--has now been posted at Stat Box Stories here: http://statboxstories.wordpress.com/...a-football-12/

Still looking for people who might want to play the other two December 17th Bowl Games so we can go 3-for-3 on opening weekend.

LOL, that pick/fumble in the 4th was crazy.
12-14-2011, 08:30 PM
Paakaa10

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBHuskers

Paakaa, sign me up to do the Baylor / Washington game as we see how RGIII completes his career after winning the Heisman.

I was wondering how long it would take somebody to go with the RGIII game haha; thanks JB!

Quote:

Originally Posted by psuexv

LOL, that pick/fumble in the 4th was crazy.

Indeed; in the span of about 2 seconds, I went from "sealed the game!" to "why is he jumping?" to "oh crap" haha. Thank you again for taking two games to stay on track for this weekend, by the way. I am maintaining hope that we might be able to account for all of the bowl games.
12-15-2011, 12:51 PM
JBHuskers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paakaa10

I was wondering how long it would take somebody to go with the RGIII game haha; thanks JB!

Indeed; in the span of about 2 seconds, I went from "sealed the game!" to "why is he jumping?" to "oh crap" haha. Thank you again for taking two games to stay on track for this weekend, by the way. I am maintaining hope that we might be able to account for all of the bowl games.

Yeah I don't think I've played with Baylor since release week...excited to do so!
12-15-2011, 12:54 PM
JBHuskers

Do you want us to restrict to just the highlight videos or is it okay to record the game and do highlights from there?
12-15-2011, 01:16 PM
psusnoop

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paakaa10

Haha sorry about that; I figured--since there are a number of Penn State guys here--that it might be snagged early. Anything you might be interested in doing, I'd appreciate it!

I'll do the Beef O Brady's Bowl game FIU vs Marshall before December 20th.

*I didn't edit this post to fix my mistake :sf: I just was double checking to make sure I got it right :D:D
12-15-2011, 06:07 PM
Paakaa10

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBHuskers

Do you want us to restrict to just the highlight videos or is it okay to record the game and do highlights from there?

Whichever is easier, honestly. I'm doing it through the highlight videos because it takes less time with the number of entries I'm doing each week; if you want to record off the Hauppauge, that's even better.

Quote:

Originally Posted by psusnoop

I'll do the Beef O Brady's Bowl game FUI vs Marshall before December 20th.

Sounds great, man; thanks for volunteering!
12-16-2011, 08:01 AM
Paakaa10

The first Bowl Blitz Invitational guest contribution is now posted, as our very own psuexv took on the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl as the Utah State Aggies against the Ohio Bobcats. Check out his write-up here: http://statboxstories.wordpress.com/...a-football-12/

This entry is a great example of what I'm looking for from guest contributors, just in case anyone is still on the fence about volunteering for games. You don't need to invest multiple hours of your spare time; just do as much as you can.

Thanks psuexv!
12-16-2011, 08:46 AM
steelerfan

Nice job, Eric. :up:

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12-16-2011, 09:11 AM
psuexv

Quote:

Originally Posted by steelerfan

Nice job, Eric. :up:

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Except for the fact that Ohio had their way with me :fp:

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Date of Bowl Game	Name of Bowl Game	Away	Home	Time	Claimed by:	NCAA 12 Score	Actual Game Score	Total Score Differential
December 17th	:New_Mexico_Bowl:	:Temple:	:Wyoming:	2:00PM ET	Stat Box Stories	16 - 21	37 - 15	27 (21, 6)
December 17th	:Humanitarian_Bowl: (Famous Idaho Potato Bowl)	:Ohio:	:Utah_State:	5:30PM ET	psuexv	28 - 16	24 - 23	11 (4, 7)
December 17th	:New_Orleans_Bowl:	:San_Diego_State:	:Louisiana:	9:00PM ET	psuexv	14 - 17	30 - 32	31 (16, 15)
December 20th	:Beef_O_Bradys_Bowl:	:FIU:	:Marshall:	8:00PM ET	psusnoop	23 - 34	10 - 20	27 (13, 14)
December 21st	:Poinsettia_Bowl:	:TCU:	:Louisiana_Tech:	8:00PM ET	psuexv	23 - 17 (OT)	31 - 24	15 (8, 7)
December 22nd	:Las_Vegas_Bowl:	:Arizona_State:	:Boise_State:	8:00PM ET	Stat Box Stories	38 - 34	24 - 56	36 (14, 22)
December 24th	:Hawaii_Bowl:	:Nevada:	:Southern_Miss:	8:00PM ET	souljahbill	24 - 28	17 - 24	11 (7, 4)
December 26th	:Independence_Bowl:	:Missouri:	:North_Carolina:	5:00PM ET	psusnoop	28 - 21	41 - 24	16 (13, 3)
December 27th	:LittleCaesars_Bowl:	:Western_Michigan:	:Purdue:	4:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	36 - 40	32 - 37	7 (4, 3)
December 27th	:Belk_Bowl:	:Louisville:	:NC_State:	8:00PM ET	Owen Good (Kotaku)	11 - 35	24 - 31	17 (13, 4)
December 28th	:Military_Bowl:	:Toledo:	:Air_Force:	4:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	45 - 28	42 - 41	16 (3, 13)
December 28th	:Holiday_Bowl:	:Cal:	:Texas:	8:00PM ET	psuexv	55 - 23	10 - 21	47 (45, 2)
December 29th	:Champs_Sports_Bowl:	:Florida_State:	:Notre_Dame:	5:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	28 - 31	18 - 14	27 (10, 17)
December 29th	:Alamo_Bowl:	:Washington:	:Baylor:	9:00PM ET	JBHuskers	14 - 52	56 - 67	57 (42, 15)
December 30th	:Armed_Forces_Bowl:	:BYU:	:Tulsa:	12:00PM ET	Stat Box Stories	34 - 41 (2OT)	24 - 21	30 (10, 20)
December 30th	:Pinstripe_Bowl: (Bowl not in NCAA 12)	:Rutgers:	:Iowa_State:	3:20PM ET	RedZoneD25	16 - 21	27 - 13	19 (11, 8)
December 30th	:Music_City_Bowl:	:Mississippi_State:	:Wake_Forest:	6:40PM ET	psuevx	10 - 7	23 - 17	23 (13, 10)
December 30th	:Insight_Bowl:	:Iowa:	:Oklahoma:	10:00PM ET	SGdirtyburt	20 - 13	14 - 31	24 (6, 18)
December 31st	:Texas_Bowl: (Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas)	:Texas_A&M:	:Northwestern:	12:00PM ET	cdj	34 - 6	33 - 22	17 (1, 16)
December 31st	:Sun_Bowl:	:Georgia_Tech:	:Utah:	2:00PM ET	gschwendt	28 - 16	27 - 30 (OT)	15 (1, 14)
December 31st	:Fight_Hunger_Bowl:	:Illinois:	:UCLA:	3:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	24 - 38	20 - 14	28 (4, 24)
December 31st	:Liberty_Bowl:	:Cincinnati:	:Vanderbilt:	3:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	49 - 21	31 - 24	21 (18, 3)
December 31st	:Chick_fil_A_Bowl:	:Virginia:	:Auburn:	7:30PM ET	psusnoop	24 - 13	24 - 43	30 (0, 30)
January 2nd	:TicketCity_Bowl:	:Houston:	:Penn_State:	12:00PM ET	psuexv	7 - 45	30 - 14	54 (23, 31)
January 2nd	:Capital_One_Bowl:	:Nebraska:	:South_Carolina:	1:00PM ET	cdj	28 - 10	13 - 30	35 (15, 20)
January 2nd	:Outback_Bowl:	:Michigan_State:	:Georgia:	1:00PM ET	SGdirtyburt	7 - 30	33 - 30 (3OT)	26 (26, 0)
January 2nd	:Gator_Bowl:	:Ohio_State:	:Florida:	1:00PM ET	psuexv	19 - 24	17 - 24	2 (2, 0)
January 2nd	:Rose_Bowl:	:Wisconsin:	:Oregon:	5:00PM ET	Stat Box Stories	38 - 20	38 - 45	25 (0, 25)
January 2nd	:Fiesta_Bowl:	:Stanford:	:Oklahoma_State:	8:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	16 - 45	38 - 41 (OT)	26 (22, 4)
January 3rd	:Sugar_Bowl:	:Michigan:	:Virginia_Tech:	8:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	31 - 0	23 - 20	28 (8, 20)
January 4th	:Orange_Bowl:	:West_Virginia:	:Clemson:	8:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	59 - 33	70 - 33	11 (11, 0)
January 6th	:Cotton_Bowl:	:Kansas_State:	:Arkansas:	8:00PM ET	steelerfan	12 - 3	16 - 29	30 (4, 26)
January 7th	:BBVA_Compass_Bowl:	:SMU:	:Pitt:	1:00PM ET	JBHuskers	38 - 35	28 - 6	39 (10, 29)
January 8th	:GoDaddycom_Bowl:	:Arkansas_State:	:Northern_Illinois:	9:00PM ET	gschwendt	31 - 17	20 - 38	32 (11, 21)
January 9th	:BCS:	:Alabama:	:LSU:	8:30PM ET	Stat Box Stories	14 - 3	21 - 0	10 (7, 3)