2010 Champs Sports Bowl:  Tuesday December 28, 6:30 PM ET

# 22 West Virginia (9-3, 5-2 Big East) v. N.C. State (8-4, 5-3 ACC)

Mountaineers Storyline – West Virginia has had an interesting season and an even more interesting offseason. This is a team that had high expectations, yet faltered early. Thus, even though the ‘Neers won 9 games and tied for the Big East title, they’re playing in December rather than in January and the BCS. In the past week, the school has hired Dana Holgorsen to replace Bill Stewart - Holgorsen, new to West Virginia coming in from Oklahoma State, will be the offensive coordinator for Stewart before he replaces him in 2012. Stewart didn’t want to be forced out and he didn’t hire Holgorsen. How this relationship works out next season is beyond me, but it should be fun to watch.

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RB Bilal Powell ranked tenth in country with 121 run ypg, so expect a large game from the senior (Icon SMI)

Louisville Cardinals

As we did in the mid-season, with the unbelievably popular Big Easties, today we hand out the end of season Big Easties (we’re nothing if not creative)!

Jordan Todman stiff-armed many defenders, not just the Orange, on his way to a Big Eastie Nomination (Icon SMI)

In awards handed out earlier in the evening…

Special Teams Player of the Year Big Easties -

Returns – Lindsey Lamar – South Florida – Lamar returned two kickoffs for touchdowns this season and in 24 returns he averaged 29.0 yards per.

Kicker – Dave Teggart – Connecticut – Kickers are weekly waiver wire pick up plays, but Teggart at least gave his new team points each week. With Connecticut loving to run the ball, their red zone offense usually consisted of; run, run, run, and then kick. Teggart averaged, averaged, 9 points per game.

Punter – Psyche! - In fantasy terms punters are like the ‘Vice Presidents to Football Operations’ people in the NFL. They are apart of football, and even matter from time to time, but you still don’t understand why the game needs them.

On to tonight’s awards, including Offensive Player of the Year Big Easties!

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Boise State loses, Cam Newton saves the day and the BCS Mythical National Title Game is almost set – just another rivalry Week in college football!

WNER’s Matt McClusky hosts Vince Mullins to break down the long weekend that was in college football on November 29, 2010.

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Jordan Todman stiff-armed many defenders, not just the Orange, on his way to a Doak Walker Award snub (Icon SMI)

The Huskies need a win at South Florida this weekend and Connecticut, only a few short years removed from D-1AA (now known as FCS) competition, will head to a BCS Bowl.

Of course Connecticut has lost it’s fair share of games this season. That fact is likely to cause some outrage amongst the elitist elite of college football. The Huskies have lost to Michigan (the very same Michigan with Greg Robinson as it’s defensive coordinator) and Temple (I don’t care how much better the Owls are, losing to Temple is never a good thing).

Say what they will, and they will say a lot, Connecticut has a lot of talent and the Huskies are rolling. Let’s take a look at the make up of the likely 2010 Big East Champion (Is this a reverse jinx? Do I put a lot of parentheses in a paragraph?)

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