Andy

Jon Sciambi would've been good as well, but that's a good booth.

I don't know if Jay was asleep for the part where the NCAA was going to get sued into oblivion so backed off their own actions on PSU, but I'm taking a wild guess and saying that's why they haven't come out for blood here as they did then.

By a cool storyline I'm sure you meant our only chance for a competitive Super Bowl. New England will probably sleepwalk through the easiest QB schedule in playoffs history now. But, if the price was that Minnesota moment, I guess I'll take it, because that was cool.

I can't horsefeathering stand North Carolina. 3 key 50/50 calls or no calls in the final minute and they just happen to all go their way. On the road no less.

They're both sort of dumb but I don't hate either. Of the two I like Finnisher better.

I didn't mind Grote. He seemed to play pretty well off Coomer and (especially) Pat. Plus, the dude sold the crap out of that ad for Grossinger Auto Group.

Marc Stein reporting Detroit and Utah have interest in acquiring Mirotic and Bulls are determined to get a 1st-rounder for him.

I really wanted Georgia to win, but Tua was a hell of a lot of fun to watch. Hopefully he continues to be so next year, maybe Alabama games won't be so soul-crushing.

Really? To where? Whoever is willing to bilk their taxpayers into paying for a palace like Atlanta's. Supposedly BoA Stadium is "outdated" at 20 years old.

If Carolina can't win a playoff game in which Cam Newton leads the offense to 26 points on top of making 2 perfect TD throws (that his cadre of no-name receivers failed to catch), then they're just never going to win it all. The good news is that there's a 50/50 chance the next owner moves the team in 2 years, so maybe I won't have to care anymore after that.

Bonzie Colson having surgery today on his fractured foot and will be out through February. ND still clocked NC State last night (with Matt Farrell also going down in the game, with a sprained ankle), but this is going to be a weird year.

Hey, now everyone in the division has a competitive balance pick

49 straight after UVA took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown. Playing them is hell.

The report says the discussions included all 3, which makes sense, but taking from that that we offered all 3, as that writer does, would be silly.

Gronk wasn't a repeat offender though. Assumed that would happen. Carolina needs to beat Tampa Sunday if only for my own sanity. I really don't want their playoff lives coming down to a trip to Atlanta in Week 17.

In non-catch territory, I am perfectly fine with Thomas Davis being suspended for his dirty hit on Davante Adams on Sunday, but the suspension being twice as long as when Rob Gronkowski speared a dude on the ground after the play was over is completely ridiculous. If you're not giving Gronk more than 1 for that, you've pretty much lost the right to give anyone more than 1 for anything short of a felony.

If all this Jerry Richardson crap brings about a Diddy/Steph Curry/Colin Kaepernick ownership consortium, that would just be tremendous.

Dubious interpretations of already dubious rules seems to be a Patriots specialty for better and for worse.

This might be the first one of these things in which I can really see either one. My first instinct was lefty.

I'm about done with this Crossroads thing. 3rd straight year of a disastrous blown lead. Maui looking more and more like a mirage.

Gordon was the first sports jersey I bought with my own money. Not my shrewdest buy, but I did get a few years out of it.

I had him in fantasy. I noticed.

Jealous. Rose Bowl is a bucket list for most CFB fans I have a cousin who graduated from Michigan State and he went the year they beat Stanford. I was extremely envious.

They are always New Year's Day when the Rose and Sugar host. The other years they will be the Saturday before New Year's Day. They started that last year but that happened to be New Year's Eve so no one noticed.

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans, LA – 12/16, 1 pm (ESPN) North Texas vs Troy AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/16, 2:30 pm (CBSSN) Western Kentucky vs Georgia State Las Vegas Bowl in Las Vegas, NV – 12/16, 3:30 pm (ABC) Oregon vs (25) Boise State Gildan New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque, NM – 12/16, 4:30 pm (ESPN) Colorado State vs Marshall Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, AL – 12/16, 8 pm (ESPN) Middle Tennessee vs Arkansas State Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, FL – 12/19, 7 pm (ESPN) Florida Atlantic vs Akron DXL Frisco Bowl in Frisco, TX – 12/20, 8 pm (ESPN) Louisiana Tech vs SMU Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl in St. Petersburg, FL – 12/21, 8 pm (ESPN) Temple vs Florida International Bahamas Bowl in Nassau, BS – 12/22, 12:30 pm (ESPN) UAB vs Ohio Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, ID – 12/22, 4 pm (ESPN) Wyoming vs Central Michigan Birmingham Bowl in Birmingham, AL – 12/23, 12 pm (ESPN) Texas Tech vs South Florida Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, TX – 12/23, 3:30 pm (ESPN) San Diego State vs Army Dollar General Bowl in Mobile, AL – 12/23, 7 pm (ESPN) Appalachian State vs Toledo Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu, HI – 12/24, 8:30 pm (ESPN) Houston vs Fresno State Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl in Dallas, TX – 12/26, 1:30 pm (ESPN) West Virginia vs Utah Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, MI – 12/26, 5:15 pm (ESPN) Northern Illinois vs Duke Cactus Bowl in Phoenix, AZ – 12/26, 9 pm (ESPN) UCLA vs Kansas State Walk On’s Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA – 12/27, 1:30 pm (ESPN) Florida State vs Southern Miss New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York, NY – 12/27, 5:15 pm (ESPN) Boston College vs Iowa Foster Farms Bowl in Santa Clara, CA – 12/27, 8:30 pm (FOX) Arizona vs Purdue Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl in Houston, TX – 12/27, 9 pm (ESPN) Texas vs Missouri Military Bowl in Annapolis, MD – 12/28, 1:30 pm (ESPN) Virginia vs Navy Camping World Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/28, 5:15 pm (ESPN) (22) Virginia Tech vs (19) Oklahoma State San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl in San Diego, CA – 12/28, 9 pm (FS1) (18) Washington State vs (16) Michigan State Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, TX – 12/28, 9 pm (ESPN) (13) Stanford vs (15) TCU Belk Bowl in Charlotte, NC – 12/29, 1 pm (ESPN) Texas A&M vs Wake Forest Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, TX – 12/29, 3 pm (CBS) Arizona State vs (24) NC State Franklin American Mortgage Company Music City Bowl in Nashville, TN – 12/29, 4:30 pm (ESPN) Kentucky vs (21) Northwestern Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl in Tucson, AZ – 12/29, 5:30 pm (CBSSN) New Mexico State vs Utah State TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, FL – 12/30, 12 pm (ESPN) Louisville vs (23) Mississippi State AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN – 12/30, 12:30 pm (ABC) (20) Memphis vs Iowa State Outback Bowl in Tampa, FL – 1/1, 12 pm (ESPN2) South Carolina vs Michigan Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL – 1/1, 1 pm (ABC) (17) LSU vs (14) Notre Dame “New Year’s 6” Games: Goodyear Cotton Bowl in Arlington, TX – 12/29, 8:30 pm (ESPN) (8) USC vs (5) Ohio State PlayStation Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ – 12/30, 4 pm (ESPN) (9) Penn State vs (11) Washington Capital One Orange Bowl in Miami, FL – 12/30, 8 pm (ESPN) (6) Wisconsin vs (10) Miami Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta, GA – 1/1, 12:30 pm (ESPN) (12) UCF vs (7) Auburn Playoff: Rose Bowl Semifinal in Pasadena, CA – 1/1, 5 pm (ESPN) (3) Georgia vs (2) Oklahoma Allstate Sugar Bowl Semifinal in New Orleans, LA – 1/1, 8:30 pm (ESPN) (4) Alabama vs (1) Clemson College Football Championship Game in Atlanta, GA – 1/8, 8 pm (ESPN) Semifinal Winners