2024 Bowl Confidence Points

December 12, 2024 by CollegeFootballPoll.com Staff

Confidence Points is a popular pick 'em game for college football fans that presents the dual challenge of picking the winners and assigning points to each pick.

There will be 39 bowl confidence assignments this season, including the determined first round games of the College Football Playoff. However, any games after the 1st round are not, and should not, be included as those are not pre-determined matches and the outcomes of each subsequent round would necessitate a re-shuffling of the confidence rank.

Assign 39 to the pick that gives you the most confidence, and assign 1 to the pick that gives you the least confidence. No number can be assigned more than once.

A perfect record this year would be a total score of 780.

The computer scored 452 points last year as coaching changes, player holdouts, NFL draft declarations, and transfer portal activity have all combined to make projecting bowl season outcomes all that more difficult. But everyone playing the Confidence Points game is faced with the same circumstances.

All of those scenarios existed in 2022, as well, but the computer scored 616 out of a possible 816 points (71.54%) that year, after only scoring 350 out of the possible 703-point perfect (49.8%). in 2021. The computer did 72% in 2020, and 69% in 2019.

Here is how the computer (Congrove Computer Rankings at CollegeFootballPoll.com) ranks its' picks, based on its' projected margin of victory for each bowl winner.

Confidence Points - Prior Years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Original upload: December 12.
Latest update: December 24 after Hawaii Bowl
Home Team in Bold, where applicable (1st round playoffs and Myrtle Beach Bowl)