Posted August 25th, 2007 by Brian
Filed under: Bowls, Football, Quick Hits
SI predicts Texas in Fiesta Bowl against Wisconsin. OU to Sugar and Okie Lite to Cotton.
Posted March 5th, 2007 by Brian
Filed under: Bowls, Football, Quick Hits
The BCS won’t be able to resist Jerry World. New stadium could make Cotton Bowl nationally relevant again.
Apparently the Florida Gators did take all the doubting of the media personally, because after Ginn ran back the opening kickoff of the game, the Gators absolutely dominated the Ohio State Buckeyes the rest of the way. Congratulations to the Gators, who now hold both the football and basketball championships down in Gainesville.
Honestly, it was almost sad to see how poorly the Ohio State offense was playing. They couldn’t do anything, and the Heisman Trophy winner was only able to complete 4 passes. And I better not ever again hear any comparisons of Troy Smith to Vince Young. They shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath.
Remember that feeling when we won last year? Hopefully we will get to experience it again in the near future. I forsee good things to come.
Hopefully last night most of you caught one of the better endings ever in a college football bowl game. Boise St had played it pretty straight laced throughout the whole game, until the last play of regulation and in overtime where they looked like they just emptied the playbook. In case you didn’t see the last play, here it is, the ole “Statue of Liberty” to win the game. Amazing.
All I can say is it couldn’t have happened to a more arrogant coach and team in Stoops and [tag]Oklahoma[/tag]. Poor Sooners. Have fun thinking about this one in the off-season.
Now the question will be, “Should Boise St get a shot at the National Championship?” Me personally, I would say no. Let them work their way into a BCS conference and see how they do then. I don’t think there is any way Boise St would have gone undefeated in any of the major conferences. Just my opinion.
Happy New Year’s! Texas finished out 2006 a winner of 10 games for a nation’s best sixth straight year and 2007 will begin with a great slate of New Year’s Day games. Make sure you wake up early Monday and don’t sleep too late to catch the Outback and Cotton Bowls. The week finishes up in Glendale, Arizona as Florida will try to upset Ohio State for the national title.
Here’s our picks for the final set of bowl games and the BCS Championship Game:
| Brian | Matt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straight | Spread | Straight | Spread | |
| Outback Bowl Penn St vs. Tennessee Jan 1 @ 10am (ESPN) Spread: Tenn -4.5 |
Tenn | Tenn | Tenn | Tenn |
| Cotton Bowl Nebraska vs. Auburn Jan 1 @ 10:30am (Fox) Spread: Auburn -2.5 |
Nebraska | Nebraska | Auburn | Auburn |
| Capital One Bowl Wisconsin vs. Arkansas Jan 1 @ 12pm (ABC) Spread: Ark -2.5 |
Arky | Arky | Wisky | Wisky |
| Gator Bowl Ga Tech vs. West Virginia Jan 1 @ 12pm (CBS) Spread: WVU -11 |
WVU | Ga Tech | WVU | Ga Tech |
| Rose Bowl Michigan vs. USC Jan 1 @ 4pm (ABC) Spread: USC +1 |
USC | USC | Mich | Mich |
| Fiesta Bowl Boise St vs. Oklahoma Jan 1 @ 7pm (Fox) Spread: OU -7.5 |
OU | OU | OU | OU |
| Orange Bowl Wake Forest vs. Louisville Jan 2 @ 7pm (Fox) Spread: Louisville -10.5 |
Louisville | Wake Forest | Louisville | Louisville |
| Sugar Bowl Notre Dame vs. LSU Jan 3 @ 7pm (Fox) Spread: LSU -10 |
LSU | LSU | LSU | LSU |
| International Bowl W. Michigan vs. Cincinatti Jan 6 @ 11am (ESPN) Spread: Cincy -7.5 |
WMU | WMU | Cincy | Cincy |
| GMAC Bowl Ohio vs. Southern Miss Jan 7 @ 7pm (ESPN) Spread: USM -6 |
USM | USM | USM | USM |
| BCS Championship Game Florida vs. Ohio State Jan 8 @ 7pm (Fox) Spread: OSU -8 |
Ohio St | Ohio St | Ohio St | Ohio St |
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Finally some decent games. Week one of the bowl season was boring and ugly, a bunch of bowls you’ve never heard of featuring two teams you couldn’t care less about.
Here’s this week’s bowl games both straight up and against the spread:
| Brian | Matt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straight | Spread | Straight | Spread | |
| Independence Bowl Okie St. vs. Alabama Dec. 28 @ 3:30pm (ESPN) Spread: Bama +2.5 |
OSU | OSU | Alabama | Alabama |
| Holiday Bowl Texas A&M vs. Cal Dec. 28 @ 7pm (ESPN) Spread: Cal -3 |
Cal | Cal | Cal | Cal |
| Texas Bowl Kansas St. vs. Rutgers Dec. 28 @ 7pm (NFL) Spread: Rutgers -8.5 |
Rutgers | KSU | Rutgers | Rutgers |
| Music City Bowl Kentucky vs. Clemson Dec. 29 @ 12pm (ESPN) Spread: Clemson -10 |
Clemson | Clemson | Clemson | Clemson |
| Sun Bowl Missouri vs. Oregon St. Dec. 29 @ 1pm (CBS) Spread: OSU -4 |
Mizzou | Mizzou | Mizzou | Mizzou |
| Liberty Bowl Houston vs. S. Carolina Dec. 29 @ 3:30pm (ESPN) Spread: USC -6 |
USC | Houston | USC | USC |
| Insight Bowl Minn. vs. Texas Tech Dec. 29 @ 6:30pm (NFL) Spread: Tech -6.5 |
Tech | Minn | Tech | Tech |
| Champs Sports Bowl Purdue vs. Maryland Dec. 29 @ 7pm (ESPN) Spread: Maryland +1 |
Maryland | Maryland | Maryland | Maryland |
| Meineke Car Care Bowl Navy vs. Boston College Dec. 30 @ 12pm (ESPN2) Spread: BC -6.5 |
BC | BC | BC | BC |
| Alamo Bowl Iowa vs. Texas Dec. 30 @ 3:30pm (ESPN) Spread: Texas -9 |
Texas | Texas | Texas | Texas |
| Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Va Tech vs. Georgia Dec. 30 @ 7pm (ESPN) Spread: Georgia +3 |
VT | VT | VT | VT |
| MPC Computers Bowl Nevada vs. Miami Dec. 30 @ 6:30pm (ESPN) Spread: Miami -3.5 |
Miami | Miami | Miami | Miami |
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The match-up in the Holiday Bowl against California should be a tough one for the Horns. DeSean Jackson is a badass and the Texas secondary has been…
Wait… isn’t Texas playing in the Alamo Bowl versus Iowa? Texas A&M is in the Holiday Bowl, right? Well someone might want to inform Desmond Howard of that:
It actually sounds like Howard did his research on this mythical game between Texas and Cal. He even knew the (relatively) breaking news that Jevan Snead had decided to transfer to Ole Miss. He had all week to prepare for his 30-second segment and he botched it big time. Doh. Brad from the 12th Manchild said that Desmond actually made the same mistake both before the game and then again at halftime, though they might just have reaired the same segment.
Just another in the long list of colossal mistakes by ESPN/ABC in their coverage of sports and college football specifically. I never thought I’d be saying this, but I miss Trev Alberts.
The 2006-2007 NCAA bowl season kicks of tonight in sunny San Diego, where TCU faces Northern Illinois in the Poinsettia Bowl. Nothing too exciting for the first week of bowl games, at least until Florida State faces off against UCLA. It will be interesting to see how UCLA bounces back after their big win against USC, and we could possibly be watching Bobby Bowden’s last game as the FSU head coach. And hey, maybe we will get to see those hideous Oregon helments.
Here’s our picks for the coming week’s bowl games both straight up and against the spread:
| Brian | Matt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straight | Spread | Straight | Spread | |
| Poinsettia Bowl TCU vs. Northern Illinois Dec. 19 @ 8pm (ESPN2) Spread: NIU +12.5 |
TCU | NIU | TCU | TCU |
| Las Vegas Bowl BYU vs. Oregon Dec. 21 @ 8pm (ESPN) Spread: Oregon +3 |
Oregon | Oregon | BYU | BYU |
| New Orleans Bowl Troy vs. Rice Dec. 22 @ 8pm (ESPN2) Spread: Rice -4 |
Rice | Rice | Rice | Rice |
| PapaJohn’s.Com Bowl South Florida vs. East Carolina Dec. 23 @ 1pm (ESPN2) Spread: ECU +4.5 |
SF | SF | SF | SF |
| New Mexico Bowl New Mexico vs. San Jose St. Dec. 23 @ 4:30pm (ESPN) Spread: SJSU +3.5 |
SJSU | SJSU | SJSU | SJSU |
| Armed Forces Bowl Tulsa vs. Utah Dec. 23 @ 8pm (ESPN) Spread: Utah -1 |
Utah | Utah | Tulsa | Tulsa |
| Hawaii Bowl Arizona St. vs. Hawaii Dec. 24 @ 8pm (ESPN) Spread: Hawaii -7 |
Hawaii | Hawaii | Hawaii | ASU |
| Motor City Bowl Central Michigan vs. Middle Tenn. St. Dec. 26 @ 7:30pm (ESPN) Spread: MTSU +9.5 |
CMU | MTSU | CMU | MTSU |
| Emerald Bowl Florida St. vs. UCLA Dec. 27 @ 8pm (ESPN) Spread: UCLA -4.5 |
FSU | FSU | FSU | FSU |
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Posted December 19th, 2006 by Brian
Filed under: Bowls, Football, Quick Hits
The bowl season kicks off tonight with the classic San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.
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