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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Although it may not share the same marquee-value as the BCS National Championship Game that will be played in the same Dolphins Stadium one week later, the 2009 FedEx Orange Bowl (January 1st, 8:30 PM, Fox) will feature two conference champions who want to represent themselves, and their sometimes-maligned conferences, in a grand fashion before [...]
SUN BOWL PREVIEW
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008An evenly-matched duel-in-the-desert is on tap in El Paso, TX, for the Brut Sun Bowl (December 31st, 2 PM, CBS) featuring the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-10 Conference, against the Pittsburgh Panthers from the Big East Conference.
Each school boasts one of the top RBs in the nation: Pittsburgh with super-sophomore LeSean McCoy, and, Oregon [...]
Holiday Bowl Preview: Lots of O for everyone
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008The Holiday Bowl was my #1 selection on the “Fantasy Bowl Draft” for three reasons - One, my objective intellect saw this as one of three bowls not in the BCS that put two ranked teams in opposition in what looks to be an offensive orgy. Two, I have been adopted into the Oklahoma State [...]
Notes From The Margin - Papajohns.com Bowl Edition
Monday, December 29th, 2008This Monday’s matchup between the North Carolina State Wolfpack and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at the Papajohns.com Bowl features two teams that halfway through the 2008 season looked to have absolutely no shot at making a post-season appearance. With the Wolfpack standing 2-6 and Rutgers 1-5 heading into the month of November, grit, tenacity, [...]
TEXAS BOWL PREVIEW
Sunday, December 28th, 2008You want offense…you got offense in the Texas Bowl (December 30th, 8 PM, NFL Network) as the Rice Owls face the Western Michigan Broncos at Reliant Stadium in Houston.
This will be a pseudo-home game for Rice, whose campus (and its home-field Rice Stadium) is just a few miles northeast of Reliant Stadium…and the Owls have [...]
Alamo Bowl Preview: Missouri vs. Northwestern
Sunday, December 28th, 2008Admit it - you are still surprised that Northwestern ranks among the Top 25 teams in the nation. These are the same Wildcats that looked so hapless during the first two years of the Pat Fitzgerald regime, and despite (or perhaps because of) two new coordinators they triumphed to an 8-3 record int eh cyclically [...]
Notes From The Margin - Emerald Bowl Edition
Saturday, December 27th, 2008In what essentially amounts to a home game for the California Bears, Jeff Tedford’s team travels to San Francisco to take on a struggling Miami Hurricanes. in Saturday night’s Emerald Bowl The Bears, featuring the fifth-best running back in the nation in Jahvid Best, will look to take advantage of a UM defense that coughed [...]
Notes From The Margin - Champs Sports Bowl Edition
Saturday, December 27th, 2008The city of Orlando hosts the Big Ten’s Wisconsin Badgers and the ACC’s Florida State Seminoles in one of the better early bowl season matchups for 2008. Wisconsin will as usual look to rely on a heavy dose of a physical rushing attack (212 yards per game), headed up by junior P.J. Hill and blossoming [...]
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