Category — College Football

We got a late Christmas present. In addition, my old lady records the game, but the replay stops 1 play before Blake Bell scores on a 21-yard TD run in the waning seconds that covers the spread if you bet OU. I had OU for $100, forgetting my constant omen never to beat them because heart and head collide, and figured I was dead in the water. Go figure.
AP

Is this what they call a track meet?
Easily the best bowl game of the season and an instant classic.
AP

Oregon’s Rose Bowl unis are raising some eyebrows.
NikeBlog.com

Craig James as a politician? Makes sense to us. Besides, it doesn’t get any worst than a so-called politician from Texas.
Star-Telegram

And you wonder why we’re taking Florida State over Notre Dame?
With the college football bowl season kicking off today, our friends at The Wiz of Odds provides a list of prop bets.
The Wiz of Odds

The college football bowl season kicks off Saturday with a trio of games, starting with the Gildan New Mexico Bowl, pitting Temple against Wyoming. The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl will follow later Saturday.
Our picks:
Gildan New Mexico Bowl: Temple over Wyoming
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Ohio over Utah State
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: San Diego State over Louisiana-Lafayette
Beef O’Bradys St. Petersburg: Florida International over Marshall
San Diego CCU Poinsettia Bowl: TCU over Louisiana Tech
Maaco Las Vegas Bowl: Boise State over Arizona State
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl: Southern Miss. over Nevada
AdvoCare Independence Bowl: Missouri over North Carolina
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Western Michigan over Purdue
Belk Bowl: Louisville over N.C. State
Military Bowl: Air Force over Toledo
Bridgepoint Holiday Bowl: Texas over Cal
Champs Sports Bowl: Florida State over Notre Dame
Valero Alamo Bowl: Baylor over Washington
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces: Tulsa over BYU
New Era Pinstripe Bowl: Rutgers over Iowa State
Franklin American Music City: Ole Miss over Wake Forest
Insight Bowl: OU over Iowa
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas: A&M over Northwestern
Hyundai Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech over Utah
AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Vandy over Cincy
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Illinois over UCLA
Chick-fil-A Bowl: Virginia over Auburn
TicketCity Bowl: Houston over Penn State
Capital One Bowl: Nebraska over South Carolina
TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl: Florida over Ohio State
Outback Bowl: Georgia over Michigan State
Rose Bowl Game by Vizio: Wisconsin over Oregon
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State over Stanford
Allstate Sugar Bowl: Michigan over Virginia Tech
Discover Orange Bowl: Clemson over West Virginia
AT&T Cotton Bowl: Arkansas over Kansas State
BBVA Compass Bowl: SMU over Pitt
GoDaddy.com Bowl: Arkansas State over Northern Illinois
BCS National Championship: LSU 17, Alabama 14

“I want to thank Bob Stoops and Mack Brown, particularly Coach Brown…”
Your 2011 Heisman Trophy winner: Robert Griffin III.

UCLA settles for Jim Mora Jr. as its new head football coach. USC fans are delirious with the hire. That tell you anything? Didn’t think so.
ESPN LA
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When it rains it pours.
Must have hired the same company my relatives did for our last reunion.
BustedCoverage.com

Some college football coaches voted Oklahoma State 4th behind Stanford in this week’s rankings. It’s no surprise that Nick Saban is 1 of them, but Missouri’s Gary Pinkel might want to watch his back in the future. Pinkel also voted OSU 4th behind LSU, ‘Bama and Stanford. He’s already got that SEC loyalty thing down.
Stanford meets the Cowboys in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2. OSU has opened as a 3 1/2-point favorite. I think we’ll jump on some of that action. We could see a double-digit win.
SI.com