bowl-previews Stories - Team Speed Kills
Humanitarian Bowl Preview: Northern Illinois, Fresno State Meet in the Cold
Humanitarian Bowl, December 18, 5:30 PM ET, ESPN What it is: A complete repudiation of one of the original purposes of bowl games, which was to reward teams with trips to warm weather vacation spots. This one is in Boise, Idaho. The Teams: Northern Illinois and Fresno State How Northern Illinois...
New Mexico Bowl Preview: BYU, UTEP Look for a Winning Season
New Mexico Bowl, December 18, 2:00 PM ET, ESPN What it is: A matchup of two 6-6 teams you likely haven't watched since September (if at all) in a locale you've likely never been to. The Teams: BYU and UTEP How BYU got here: The Cougars were expected to fall off some from their recent four-year run...
Say What You Want: This is the Championship Game -- Florida vs. Oklahoma
Anyone who's followed my blogging knows that I absolutely loathe the term "mythical national champion," mostly because I think it's nonsense. It was stretching credibility to use this term even with only six or seven conferences were involved with the BCS; now that all conferences and teams are...
Bowl Preview: Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl, 8 p.m. ET, FOX What it is: The showcase for yet another aggrieved former national championship competitor. (These guys realize that a playoff would also only produce one champion -- right?) The Teams: No. 9 Ohio State, No. 3 Texas (BlogPoll) How Ohio State got here: Because the BCS...
Bowl Preview: International Bowl
For an update: I'm 18-12 overall and 4-26 against the score. (Really, Georgia, it would have killed you to allow Michigan State to score one more point?) 12 p.m. ET, ESPN2 What it is: A way to keep Canadians from infiltrating college football by showing them a bad game. The Teams: Buffalo,...
Will I Sing "Yea, Alabama"? The Tide Finds Out What a Ute Is
Cotton Bowl, 8 p.m. ET, FOX I made a deal last week with my Tide-loving sister, who's convinced that Alabama is going to blow out Utah in the Sugar Bowl this year: If Alabama wins by more than two TDs, I will sing "Yea, Alabama" on the inaugural broadcast of Team Speed Kills Now, scheduled for 8...
One More Chance to Make History: Kentucky's Battle with .500
Liberty Bowl, 5 p.m. ET, ESPN There have been a few chances this offseason for mid- or lower-tier SEC programs to win a bowl game that would have propelled them to near-historic heights. One of those teams, Vanderbilt, won a thrilling if not picturesque showdown with Boston College; the other,...
A Better Game Than You Think. Unless It's Not -- Mississippi's Chance to Defeat Tech
Cotton Bowl, 2 p.m. ET, FOX The margins have come down some since ESPN set it's AMERICA'S CHOICE crawl at the bottom of the screen, but the general idea remains the same: College football fans at large think that Ole Miss has no chance to win the Cotton Bowl against the Red Raiders. And who can...
It's Not the National Championship, But It's Something: Georgia Looks for Cap One Crown
Capital One Bowl, 1 p.m. ET, ABC Georgia was always supposed to play in Florida at the end of the year. Well, some of us chose them to play there. But it was the year-end, national championship bout in South Florida that was a possible destination -- not the New Year-opening, Capital One Bowl in...
Bowl Previews: Non-SEC New Year's Day (Gator, Rose, Orange)
Two more relatively good days move me to 14-8 on the bowl season, though it's a bit of a blow that two of the three wrong picks came on the two SEC games I chose. That's what I get for trying to avoid homerism. However, I picked up two more wins on the score, moving me to 3-19. Enough...
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