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Nice job, Mike.
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Nebraska just hired Alabamas D-Line coach, I think his experience playing Auburn this year is going to matter quite a bit. Nebraska will play a game of dare you with Auburn, we will dare them to pass. We know that if Nebraska wants to stop the run they will stop the run. Its going to be one of the better games this bowl season.
Here is a scenario for you to ponder. Florida beats the Buckeyes by a score of 23/21. A week earlier Michigan stomps the Trojans 45/10 and Boise State routs the Sooners 34/3 leaving Boise State an unbeaten 13/0. Who's number 1 then?
Do you want the picks Freepmailed to you or just posted on the thread?
The National Championship is his agenda this year.
Beware the Vest!
Don't you remember that King Day Classic? It wasn't really a bowl game though -- rather it was one of those All-Star games. As I recall, it was Division I-A All-Stars versus Division I-AA, II, and III All-Stars....it was played on MLK Day for a year or two....
That International Bowl rather turns me off...I don't know why...it wouldn't be so bad if it featured players from Canada maybe (CFL hopefuls from various schools in Canada, or maybe one Canadian college against a US college....) But why would two US teams want to go to Toronto this time of year?
Excellent job, and boy are you right there are some real dog matchups out there this year.
Thanks for the effort you have put forth all season for this thread.
The Rose Bowl is really intriguing, BOTH UM & USC feel they have something to prove..gonna be very intense...
ND is gonna get shellacked, BIG TIME....possibly even shut out..they are SOOOOOO overrated..
If as you surmise, USF tracks the top 25 next season, that would be a record of sorts, fastest from starting Div 1A play to getting a top 25 ranking...that may explain why FSU & UM had bad seasons..the recruiting pool for those two schools is hurting. If you took all the Florida residents on Rutgers and USF, and reallocated them to FSU and UM, well..
Rutgers really needs to win their game, to validate their season...
Will forward my picks later..but I hereby fearlessly predict that the SEC teams lose only ONE game....sorry, all you Kentucky fans, but NO WAY they can beat Clemson.....which will further validate UF's claim to deserving the championship slot, which they will then prove even more by beating OSU..Troy Smith will have a LOUSY game..throw 3 pics...and thus cause lots of talk about the Heisman being nothing but a PR stunt..
and of course the BIG question...will TV actually show he OSU band dotting the "I"..or will they be in commercial?
YOu should put a group on ESPN.com for the college football pool.
"We get a rematch of the 2004 Rose Bowl where Michigan was blown out by USC. This time, however, USC is the team with the young QB in the backfield"
USC had a young QB in the backfield in the 2004 Rose Bowl. It was Leinart's first season as a starter.
I think Iowa's gonna get stomped...badly.
Wisconsin...I think we have no idea how good or not good that team is. It has been even less tested than most of the top of the Big10. Arkansas is clearly a very good team. This could be a blowout either way, though i'd lean towards Arkansas.
I disagree. :)
Here's the new alternate helmet that Oregon might break out for the Vegas Bowl.
Below is an excerpted article from today's Register-Guard. The Register-Guard requires registration.
LAS VEGAS BOWL
New lids give Ducks new look By Bob Clark The Register-Guard Published: Friday, December 15, 2006
Oh, my.
In what would have otherwise been a routine return to practice Thursday, about half of the Oregon players donned new helmets in a preview of what the Ducks might look like in the Las Vegas Bowl in a week.
And what a look it was, and could be next week.
"You never know with us," offensive coordinator Gary Crowton said. "It's exciting if the players like it and if they like it, that's what it's all about." (snip)
source-(http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/15/c1.sp.vegasnotes.1215.p1.php?section=oregonfb)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_stanford_harbaugh_2
Harbaugh to (coach) Stanford
"It’s all about the money."
Been that way for 100+ years....
My bowl picks are below.
The lines have shifted in a lot of these games since you posted the thread. I updated them as needed using the lines published in the local paper's sports page box scores (I assume these come from AP).
FWIW;
TCU (-11.5)
BYU (-3.5)
Rice (-5)
USF (-3.5)*
New Mexico (-4)*
Utah (-1)
Hawaii (-8)
Central Michigan (-10.5)
UCLA (-4.5)
Ok State (-2)
Texas A&M (+5)
Rutgers (-7.5)*
Clemson (-10)*
Oregon State (-3.5)
South Carolina (-6.5)
Texas Tech (-6.5)
Maryland (-1)
BC (-6)
Texas (-11)*
Va Tech (-2.5)
Nevada (+3)
Tennessee (-4.5)*
Auburn (-3)
Arkansas (-1)
West Virginia (-7)
Cincy (-8)
Southern Miss (-6.5)
Michigan (+1)
Oklahoma (-7.5)*
Louisville (-10)
LSU (-8.5)
UCLA has been hot and cold all season. They have found ways to lose when they should have won (Notre Dame) and ways to win games they were expected to lose (USC). At USC they got the momentum on their side and their defense was just plain, outstanding. They had also lost 7 in a row to USC, so motivation was huge. I look for them to be cold and not as motivated.
Cal -- If they can't make the Rose Bowl, they seem to have no interest in any other bowl games. Sorry, Cal has such a history of choking, that I expect them to do so one more time.