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I'm officially cursed with my bowl picks

This has not been the year for me as far as football is concerned. In Fantasy Football, I drafted Peyton Manning and Matt Schaub at quarterback. Manning was just supposed to miss 2-3 weeks and wound up missing the entire season. Schaub suffered a season-ending injury at the midway point in the season. I replaced Manning with Jason Campbell, whom suffered a season-ending injury mid-season. I wound up with Carson Palmer and Tyler Palko/Caleb Hainie at quarterback. In the bowl games, I put quite a few points on Georgia Tech over Utah (Tech was up 14 in the 4th), Georgia over Michigan State (Georgia was up 16-0 and also 27-20 in the final minute of the game) and Stanford over Oklahoma State (Stanford led 14-0 and 38-31 late in the 4th and with a 34-yard field goal as time expired, would have won). Georgia Tech, Georgia and Stanford all wound up losing in overtime (triple in Georgia's case). I surrender. Whatever I did to piss off the football gods, I sincerely apologize. I suppose part of me should be grateful, because 3 of the 6 games today were great (Michigan State/Georgia, Oklahoma State/Stanford and Oregon/Wisconsin) another was pretty good (Ohio State/Florida) and the other two were average (Penn State/Houston and Nebraska/South Carolina). Keep the good games a-coming, but not at the expense of my picks! ...if that's at all possible...
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