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Six games on the docket today starting at 8 am PT and the last one should finish after 8 pm PT. But four of the games are jammed into the early part of the day and by the time the Rose Bowl starts, there's no need to flip around.
You can start your viewing at 8 am PT with the Outback Bowl in Tampa where #17 Tenneseee (9-3) faces unranked Penn State (8-4). Fifth ever meeting between these teams and they split the first four games.
Then at 8:30 am PT, #10 Auburn (10-2) takes on #22 Nebraska (9-4) in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. It will be the fourth meeting between these two teams and the Cornhuskers have won all the previous meetings.
At 11 am PT, #12 Arkansas (10-3) faces #6 Wisconsin (11-1) in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando. It's the second meeting ever between these two schools and the first since 1912 (Wiconsin won 64-7) and will match up fans who wear red pig head hats versus people who wear yellow cheese wheels as hats.
Also at 11 am PT, unranked Georgia Tech (9-4) faces #13 West Virginia (10-2) in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. It's the third meeting between the Yellow Jackets and Mountaineer and Georgia Tech won the first two: 42-19 in the 1954 Sugar Bowl and 35-30 in the 1997 Carquest Bowl. West Virginia's offensive duo of QB Pat White and RB Steve Slaton have both been slowed by injuries, but Georgia Tech has been losing players left and right for a variety of reasons.
Then at 2 pm PT, the Grandaddy of Them All, the Rose Bowl kicks off between #3 Michigan (11-1) and #8 USC (10-2) in Pasadena. It's the tenth meeting between the two teams with USC holding a 5-4 edge. The teams will be meeting in the Rose Bowl for eighth time. That makes it the most frequent Rose Bowl matchup. USC and Ohio State have met seven times. Washington has played Michigan in four Rose Bowls.
Finally at 5 pm PT (expect that to start later), #9 Boise State (12-0) faces #7 Oklahoma (11-2) in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ. It's the first meeting between these two schools and it's the first BCS appearance for the Broncos. It's just the seventh major division bowl game for Boise State and only the third one outside of Boise. It will be the 40th bowl game for the Sooners.
WE ARE.....
....(unranked for a reason)
I will be heading out to meet some friends to get a ride down to the Rose Bowl (they have a parking connection). I will be riding with USC fans, which likely further ruin my UCLA bona fides with Greg Brock.
Not knowing where I'm sitting, I am wearing a green shirt and a Team South Africa baseball cap. I can easily pass for a USC fan since I'm from the area and if I am seated with Michigan fans, I will just pretend to be one of my brothers, who happens to live in Michigan.
Hauoli Makahiki Hou, everybody.
Wikipedia on Punahou:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punahou_School
There seem to be some premature detonations of fireworks on the driving range.
I actually have a chair and not a bench. I gave my churro a thumbs up.
BTW: is any portion of the defense typically (or ever) referred to as the "primary"...?
93852 in the house.
I would estimate that roughly 65696 of those are rooting for USC
Randy Walker
Bo Schembechler
Gerald Ford
Fourth moment of silence: Michigan's ground game.
1. In Florida
2. Religious School
3. In the South
4. Private School
5. School that rejected an application for my admission.
6. Not from either the Big 10 or Pac 10
7. Big 10
8. Pac 10
If both teams are in the same category, I make things up. Anyway, BS is a 6 and Oklahoma is a 3. So, go Broncos!
Yeah, I knew Leben was going to lose. I think the UFC light heavyweight division is terrible. Only Liddell and Rampage are elite fighters. Rashaad Evans and Bisping have the potential to be elite. If Rashaad learned jiu jitsu he would be extremely good. Forrest is reckless that is why I knew Jardine had a good chance, but I still think he is just another victim for the Iceman.
Hunt gave Fedor a very nice challenge.
anyway, it's not too hard to go undefeated when you're mostly playing such football luminaries as utah state and louisiana tech, and if being undefeated was all that mattered, you'd have a lot teams trying to pad their schedules with patsy opponents and you'd have a lot of undefeated teams. i'm not saying boise state sucks or anything, as they're a good team and deserve to be where they are, but 12-0 with their schedule is not better than florida's 12-1. the broncos were not screwed.
School that rejected an application for my admission
92- I'll never tell.
Just using Division 1-A schools:
1. In Florida
Florida, Florida State, Miami, Florida International, South Florida, Central Florida, Florida Atlantic
2. Religious School
That would add Notre Dame, Boston College, BYU, SMU, TCU, and possibly Wake Forest (it's a tough call.)
3. In the South
There goes a bunch of schools.
4. Private School
And another bunch
5. School that rejected an application for my admission.
That cuts the list down by 50
6. Not from either the Big 10 or Pac 10
That's 21 teams, but private schools don't count, so Northwestern, USC, and Stanford are out.
7. Big 10
But not Northwestern
8. Pac 10
But not USC or Stanford.
David 21, Goliath 10, halftime.
Heh heh
Does Duke have any official religious affiliation?
I knew that and I thought I had posted a correction, but I guess it didn't make it.
So, you had pretty much the same seat at Notre Dame as you did today?
Why did you stand there, taking a picture, while the little child was being mauled by a mascot? Have you no decency?
Wooah. You didn't think to take more pictures of the woman in front of you, in the white sweater?
For BOTH teams.
There are playoffs in baseball. The Cardinals win the World Series. People complain.
There are no playoffs in top level college football. There are games like the Rose and Fiesta Bowl. People complain.
http://thunder.boisestate.edu/cheerleaders/thisyearsteam/index.htm
And really, can't Tostitos get a corporate rep who could speak five lines of congratulations without reading them off a card?
Wottagame!
But, you've made up for the lack of pictures of the woman in white. Lindsay should be more careful about coming inside during lighting storms.
I think they didn't go for two at the end of regulation because they thought maybe they could stop OU in overtime and need only a field goal or TD to win. Once they realized they were going to go to a second OT, they figured they should go ahead and try to win.
And I've rewound the DVR and I stand by my assumption that it's Lisa, not Sarah.
especially since they knew they'd have to go on offense first
It was a good ending, but I don't think this was better than last year's Rose Bowl.
What're you talking about? That was the worst ending ever. (I'm a USC fan)
Holy Smokes. Congrats, Boise State. What a game.
http://tinyurl.com/ymxhxc
Boise State runs behind the back passes. Georgia Tech runs Calvin Johnson on reverse passes. My coach kicks 23 yard field goals.
Now if UCLA only had a coach with that kind of imagination.
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