Andy

Wasn't Hoke a darkhorse for Michigan? And Michigan's a much better job than Auburn. Gill was a darkhorse for UCLA last year. Not that UCLA is a better job than Auburn or Michigan but they aren't the worst BCS football program around. Indiana says hi. Excuse me while I cry in the corner . . . Don't cry too long, though. Washington/WAZZU trump Indiana by quite a bit (at least in recent history). Washington State is in a far worse spot than IU right now and Washington is probably a little behind them too. I would say that whoever UW hires will probably be a better coach than Bill Lynch, though.

Hoke's name was tossed around in media rumor mills for that job because that's who employed him before Ball State did (as associate head coach/defensive line I think). I'm friends with the beat writer for our student paper and never got any indication that he was considered for it.

I'm sure Gill's fine (heck, I'm sure he's better than fine), but at the moment, he is what Brady Hoke was last year (took a horrible program to a bowl), with the addendum that Buffalo managed to sneak out of a horrible division and beat us, which we didn't have the benefit of last year. And no one was clamoring for Hoke to get a big-time job.

Buffalo won 7 regular-season games and needed a hail mary miracle to beat Temple, but yeah, the ONLY reason not to hire Turner Gill is his blackness. I'd go out on a limb and say that if a white coach had Turner Gill's current resume, he'd never have been interviewed at all for that job. Gene Chizik was a horrible hire, but there had to be other reasons in play here, and Chizik's previous employment at Auburn was doubtless one of them.

Oh for crying out loud. It's getting harder and harder to make my annual trip to Wrigley.

Hoke's gone. I'm so pissed off at our administration - Collins, Gora, the whole crew. He'll take Stan Parrish with him. Nate Davis is gone. Some of the recruits are probably gone. Hopefully Kelly Page, the QB-in-waiting, isn't. I always knew it would never get better than this year, but I didn't think it would be this bad so soon after.

you guys have some pretty lax "favorite team" rules in Indiana Come again?

Ball State has abysmal facilities and abysmal pay. SDSU would offer better facilities, a better conference and an easier area of the country to recruit. And he'd be getting paid over twice as much as he is now. Ball State needs to pony up.

One school that was rumored to be after Hoke down. If SDSU goes another way...

Notre Dame scared the crap out of me tonight but extended their homecourt win streak to 41, 74-67 over Boston U. Harangody racked up 23 and 15, taking over in the 2nd half. McAlarney rang up 16.

As it happens, the editor for the paper I'm freelancing for is an SDSU grad, so he's told me about this. I don't see Hoke leaving unless Nate Davis does. Davis already said he's staying. That said, I have to think Walker is the favorite anyway. He'd be a great hire for SDSU.

The bad part is that there isn't much in the way of top QBs uncommitted right now. Devlin picked a horrible time to decide to transfer as most all of the good QBs are mostly locked up. If JoPa wants one in this class, he'll likely have to steal one away from another team. which he may be able to do, since they won't be buried in the depth chart for 2 years anymore Possible, though QBs are a weird breed. Matt Barkley (top QB prospect in this class) is heading to USC despite there being three former five star recruits in front of him. And Notre Dame got the #1 ranked QB the previous two years (Clausen, Crist). Still having trouble figuring that one out.

Maybe if Kosuke plays for Japan he'll recapture his mojo? Really reaching.

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