Andy

Whereas Tim Tebow can throw dead ducks to receivers who have beaten their man by 20 yards better than ANYONE

UCF was in the Conference USA title game...last year.

Bradford or McCoy should win it. Tebow's been great this year, though.

Purdue 68, BSU 39. Ouch. Lowest point total in 51 years or something.

I also love when I don't start Steve Smith because he's going against the Buc's secondary probably the best in the league...and he ended with 9 catches, 117 yards, and a TD Smith is always good for one really good game against Tampa and he didn't get one the first time - I knew he'd play well.

Last year I think I had 30 points on LSU or something, and will probably do something similar with Texas this year

I hate not being able to go to that. They finally get a good team into Muncie at a non-holiday point in the schedule and I go do a stupid thing like graduate. Should be interesting.

I usually try to watch a lot of the bowls too. I think last year I at least watched 10 minutes of all but about 3 or 4 bowls. Like dew, it's more about loving college football than anything.

Now THAT was fun. DeAngelo Williams is becoming a really, really, really good back.

Notre Dame basketball is getting more leeway than they probably deserve, falling only to 12th in the AP poll. I guess beating Texas will get you that.

Dallas and Atlanta both losing yesterday really helped Carolina, giving them much more breathing room for a playoff spot in the event they lose tonight. I'm excited as hell for this game. I hope our offense figured out how to do something vs Tampa in the last couple of months.

The full bowl schedule: EagleBank Bowl in Washington, DC – 12/20, 11 am (ESPN) Wake Forest vs Navy New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque, NM – 12/20, 2:30 pm (ESPN) Colorado State vs Fresno State magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl in St. Petersburg, FL – 12/20, 4:30 pm (ESPN2) Memphis vs South Florida Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl in Las Vegas, NV – 12/20, 8 pm (ESPN) (17) BYU vs Arizona R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans, LA – 12/21, 8:15 pm (ESPN) Southern Mississippi vs Troy San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego, CA – 12/23, 8 pm (ESPN) (9) Boise State vs (11) TCU Sheraton Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu, HI – 12/24, 8 pm (ESPN) Hawaii vs Notre Dame Motor City Bowl in Detroit, MI – 12/26, 8 pm (ESPN) Florida Atlantic vs Central Michigan Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC – 12/27, 1 pm (ESPN) West Virginia vs North Carolina Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/27, 4:30 pm (ESPN) Wisconsin vs Florida State Emerald Bowl in San Francisco, CA – 12/27, 8 pm (ESPN) California vs Miami Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA – 12/28, 8:15 pm (ESPN) Northern Illinois vs Louisiana Tech Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, AL – 12/29, 3 pm (ESPN) NC State vs Rutgers Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, TX – 12/29, 8 pm (ESPN) (25) Missouri vs Northwestern Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, ID – 12/30, 4:30 pm (ESPN) Maryland vs Nevada Texas Bowl in Houston, TX – 12/30, 8 pm (NFL Network) Rice vs Western Michigan Pacific Life Holiday Bowl in San Diego, CA – 12/30, 8 pm (ESPN) (13) Oklahoma State vs (15) Oregon Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, TX – 12/31, 12 pm (ESPN) Houston vs Air Force Brut Sun Bowl in El Paso, TX – 12/31, 2 pm (CBS) (24) Oregon State vs (18) Pittsburgh Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl in Nashville, TN – 12/31, 3:30 pm (ESPN) Boston College vs Vanderbilt Insight Bowl in Tempe, AZ – 12/31, 5:30 pm (NFL Network) Kansas vs Minnesota Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta, GA – 12/31, 7:30 pm (ESPN) LSU vs (14) Georgia Tech Outback Bowl in Tampa, FL – 1/1, 11 am (ESPN) South Carolina vs Iowa Capital One Bowl in Orlando, FL – 1/1, 1 pm (ABC) (16) Georgia vs (19) Michigan State Konica Minolta Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, FL – 1/1, 1 pm (CBS) Clemson vs Nebraska AT&T Cotton Bowl – 1/2, 2 pm (FOX) (20) Ole Miss vs (8) Texas Tech AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN – 1/2, 5 pm (ESPN) Kentucky vs East Carolina International Bowl in Toronto, ON – 1/3, 12 pm (ESPN2) Connecticut vs Buffalo GMAC Bowl in Mobile, AL – 1/6, 8 pm (ESPN) Tulsa vs (23) Ball State BCS Games: Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA – 1/1, 4:30 pm (ABC) (6) Penn State vs (5) USC FedEx Orange Bowl in Miami, FL – 1/1, 8 pm (FOX) (21) Virginia Tech vs (12) Cincinnati Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, LA – 1/2, 8 pm (FOX) (4) Alabama vs (7) Utah Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ – 1/5, 8 pm (FOX) (3) Texas vs (10) Ohio State FedEx National Championship Game in Miami, FL – 1/8, 8 pm (FOX) (1) Florida vs (2) Oklahoma

Only four spots left to be filled.

Cincy to the Orange, meaning Ohio State probably to the Fiesta against Texas and Utah to the Sugar against Bama.

Notre Dame will indeed play Hawaii in Hawaii, on Christmas Eve night. Boise State/TCU in the championship of non-BCS little guys in San Diego.

The more MAC bowls the better. Western Michigan should also be playing somewhere. Now I'm seeing that ND might go to the Hawaii Bowl to play...Hawaii. Whatever.

Notre Dame will choose between playing Rice in the Texas Bowl and playing Louisiana Tech in the Independence Bowl.

The Motor City Bowl has taken Central Michigan and Ball State will play Tulsa in the GMAC Bowl.

I get Jags/Bears and Vikings/Lions. I think I'll go do something else.

Skip Holtz is evidently headed to Syracuse. Good hire by the Orange, though I would've thought Skip could have gotten a better offer.

I guess it's pretty easy to beat Notre Dame when only two players show up. Harangody 25 and 16 coming off of pneumonia, Tory Jackson 13 points, nothing from anyone else. And now we won't enter BE play looking any better than any other year.

These Army and Navy uniforms are awful.

So I just drove 3.5 hours home from Detroit after the most soul-crushing night in my short time as an alum (B, I was on the sidelines so if you saw me it was only for fleeting seconds at the end of out of bounds plays), and I've come to the conclusion that Ball State did not play well. All year their top strength was playing disciplined mistake-free football...10 turnovers all year, 5 tonight. 4 lost fumbles all year, 4 tonight. There was a sketchy replay call before both the fumble scores by Buffalo - on one, MiQuale Lewis got a foot inside the pylon but didn't get the TD even after review, and on the other, Briggs Orsbon caught a pass but had it overturned on no evidence that I can see - but that's no excuse. Credit Buffalo, they didn't let us get away with those mistakes. I have for a while now though had the opinion that something needs to be done about replay. I swear, every game I watch now there's at least one ridiculous replay reversal where the official in the booth completely ignores the 'indisputable evidence to overturn the call on the field' rule. As for the bowl picture, we would've gone back to Detroit for the Motor City Bowl (they had first pick of MAC schools), but will now take Western or Central Michigan. GMAC in Mobile, Alabama, has the 2nd pick and will take us. Buffalo has already accepted a bid to the International Bowl in Toronto. The only good news to come from tonight was that Nate Davis said in the postgame press conference that he would be returning next season. He claims he was never going pro, but I have to believe he wants to win the league title. BSU will probably be MAC favorites next year with Nate back.

can we get some love for the time honored traditions of the magicjack Bowl, the R+L Carriers Bowl and the San Diego Credit Union Pointsettia Bowl please? You're going to love when I post the bowl game thread. I included all the sponsor names as a commentary on how ridiculous they look when typed out. I'm leaving for Detroit shortly. I'll be on the sidelines. Go Cards.