Happy 'Bowl season'. Enjoy: New Mexico Bowl BYU vs. UTEP Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium Dec. 18 2 p.m. ESPN uDrove Humanitarian Bowl Northern Illinois vs. Fresno State Boise, Idaho Bronco Stadium Dec. 18 5:30 p.m. ESPN R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Ohio vs. Troy New Orleans Louisiana Superdome Dec. 18 9 p.m. ESPN Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl Southern Mississippi vs. Louisville St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field Dec. 21 8 p.m. ESPN MAACO Las Vegas Bowl Utah vs. Boise State Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium Dec. 22 8 p.m. ESPN S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl Navy vs. San Diego State San Diego Qualcomm Stadium Dec. 23 8 p.m. ESPN Sheraton Hawaii Bowl Hawaii vs. Tulsa Honolulu Aloha Stadium Dec. 24 8 p.m. ESPN Little Caesars Bowl Florida International vs. Toledo Detroit Ford Field Dec. 26 8:30 p.m. ESPN AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl Air Force vs. Georgia Tech Shreveport, La. Independence Stadium Dec. 27 5 p.m. ESPN2 Champs Sports Bowl West Virginia vs. NC State Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl Dec. 28 6:30 p.m. ESPN Insight Bowl Missouri vs. Iowa Tempe, Ariz. Sun Devil Stadium Dec. 28 10 p.m. ESPN Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman East Carolina vs. Maryland Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium Dec. 29 2:30 p.m. ESPN Texas Bowl Illinois vs. Baylor Houston Reliant Stadium Dec. 29 6 p.m. ESPN Valero Alamo Bowl Oklahoma State vs. Arizona San Antonio Alamodome Dec. 29 9:15 p.m. ESPN Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl Army vs. SMU Dallas Gerald J. Ford Stadium Dec. 30 Noon ESPN New Era Pinstripe Bowl Kansas St. vs. Syracuse Bronx, N.Y. Yankee Stadium Dec. 30 3:20 p.m. ESPN Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl North Carolina vs. Tennessee Nashville, Tenn. LP Field Dec. 30 6:40 p.m. ESPN Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl Nebraska vs. Washington San Diego Qualcomm Stadium Dec. 30 10 p.m. ESPN Meineke Car Care Bowl South Florida vs. Clemson Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium Dec. 31 Noon ESPN Hyundai Sun Bowl Notre Dame vs. Miami El Paso, Texas Sun Bowl Dec. 31 2 p.m. CBS AutoZone Liberty Bowl Georgia vs. UCF Memphis, Tenn. Liberty Bowl Dec. 31 3:30 p.m. ESPN Chick-fil-A Bowl South Carolina vs. Florida State Atlanta Georgia Dome Dec. 31 7:30 p.m. ESPN TicketCity Bowl Northwestern vs. Texas Tech Dallas Cotton Bowl Jan. 1 Noon ESPNU Outback Bowl Florida vs. Penn State Tampa, Fla. Raymond James Stadium Jan. 1 1 p.m. ABC Capital One Bowl Alabama vs. Michigan State Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl Jan. 1 1 p.m. ESPN Gator Bowl Mississippi State vs. Michigan Jacksonville, Fla. Municipal Stadium Jan. 1 1:30 p.m. ESPN2 Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO Wisconsin vs. TCU Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl Jan. 1 5 p.m. ESPN Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Connecticut vs. Oklahoma Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium Jan. 1 8:30 p.m. ESPN/ESPN3D Discover Orange Bowl Stanford vs. Virginia Tech Miami Sun Life Stadium Jan. 3 8:30 p.m. ESPN Allstate Sugar Bowl Ohio State vs. Arkansas New Orleans Louisiana Superdome Jan. 4 8:30 p.m. ESPN GoDaddy.com Bowl Middle Tennessee vs. Miami (Ohio) Mobile, Ala. Ladd-Peebles Stadium Jan. 6 8 p.m. ESPN AT&T Cotton Bowl LSU vs. Texas A&M Arlington, Texas Cowboys Stadium Jan. 7 8 p.m. FOX BBVA Compass Bowl Pittsburgh vs. Kentucky Birmingham, Ala. Legion Field Jan. 8 Noon ESPN Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Nevada vs. Boston College San Francisco AT&T Park Jan. 9 9 p.m. ESPN Tostitos BCS National Championship Game Auburn vs. Oregon Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium Jan. 10 8:30 p.m.
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I'm ok with the Wisconsin game, they've been a high powered offense and put up some rediculous scores in their last 3 games. Will be fun to see the Nation's #1 Defense go up against that. OU's game doesn't interest me at all. What to watch in the Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO: The Grandaddy isn't too bad of a consolation prize for unbeaten TCU after second-consecutive unbeaten regular season, is it? Want closely matched? Both teams average 43.33 points per game. What are the odds of that? But the big showdown here is the TCU defense, which ranks No. 1 in the nation in scoring (11.42 ppg), against a powerful Wisconsin offense which rolled up 83, 48 and 70 points in its final three games. Many believe Wisconsin, which won consecutive Rose Bowls after the 1998 and 1999 seasons, is the nation's best one-loss team. If TCU could knock the Badgers off, it would be a major victory for the non-AQ conferences. http://espn.go.com/blog/NCFNation/post/_/id/34833/instant-analysis-of-the-bowls
Personally I feel TCU matches up worst against Wisconsin then they would have against Oregon or Auburn. Should be a great game though!
I feel the same way. I think a game vs Oregon would have been the best matchup of the 3 for TCU. but, either way. I'll be at Buffalo Wild Wings on the 1st @ 5pm in Houston...can't remember the road...back where Tinsle Town theates off Sam Houston used to be. LOL RoxSqaud.
I guess a bowl sponsorship is worth the money because I have no idea what a Beef O' Brady is but I bet I will soon. We are going to the Rose Bowl! I need to refinance my house to pay for it but the two for one, parade and bowl game, makes it a life experience we just can't pass up.
Baylor and SMU are in bowl games. Texas is not. There's a bowl game at the Cotton Bowl, but it isn't the Cotton Bowl. Weird.
The Las Vegas Bowl between Boise and Utah should be fun. The LV Bowl has become one of the bowls that consistently puts a good product on the field. It helps them that they serve as a consolation prize for two conferences that seem to always both have BCS near-misses.
So very true. I'm only interested in a few of the bowl games. If they had a playoff system, it might make college football as big as the NFL, maybe even bigger.
Have any of you guys read the book "Death to the BCS"? If you havent, its a must read. Lot of insight into why there is so much riding on there NOT being a playoff system. If you hate the BCS now, you will fuming after u read it
