Bowl time baby!

Bowl Time baby!
The most wonderful time of the year, and no, there will be NO scary ghost stories....unless we are discussing Colt Brennan's sexual assault. HA!

with no further ado, and no more gilding of the lily....

Last night was the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia where Utah beat Navy. Sweet, I had Utah in that one. Fantastic, I am off to a great start. Enjoy and see you after Christmas!

R+L Carriers New Orleans BowlMemphis vs. Florida Atlantic This FAU's first bowl ever. weren't they 0-11 last year? Ummmmm go with FAU

Papajohns.com BowlSouthern Miss vs. Cincinnati I would rather have the MellowMushroom Bowl. Or the Domino's Deep Dish. Or the CiCi's Bowl! Or the Little Caesar's Crazy Bread Bowl Or the Pizza Hut thin crust Bowl. All of those before Papa Johns.......Take The Fighting Larrys. Cincinnata

New MexicoNevada vs. New Mexico I am guessing New Mexico ALWAYS plays in the New Mexico bowl? As Jack Kelly would say, go with Santa Fe!

Pioneer Las VegasUCLA vs. BYU UCLA is sans coach, IN VEGAS. Ummmm go with the Mormons. They are going to close off EVERYTHING and create a bubble for their players in Sin City. No distractions AT ALL. Cougars.

Sheraton HawaiiBoise State vs. East Carolina Ian Johnson should have waited for HAWAII to propose to his cheerleader girlfriend-now wife. And they are playing ECU? Gotta go with Boise State, though they MAY be distracted by NOT playing on blue turf.

Motor CityPurdue vs. Central Michigan Nothing says Day after Christmas quite like the Motor City Bowl. Ps, these teams already played this year. There may be too many bowl games if you are getting REMATCHs of games where one team was PAID to come in and get stomped. Though they say "it is so hard to beat the same team twice in one year," Go with Purdue AGAIN

Pacific Life HolidayArizona State vs. Texas Prolly the best PRE-New Years Day game. ASU is gearing up for UGA next year. I hope they don't look ahead, because Colt will thrash them. In fact, I think Texas wins anyways. But I want ASU to win so they will be top 10 next year when UGA goes THERE and tags them.

Champs SportsBoston College vs. Michigan State Hey BC, you won the Atlantic Division of the ACC (or was it the coastal?) then you lost to VaTech and you end up in the Champs Sports Bowl? sucks for you guys. I have a feeling they will be the stereotypical "it sucks we are here team" which ALWAYS loses. Go with Sparty

Texas TCU vs. Houston Steers and queers, and I don't see any horns as CT would say..............Wait, Horned Frogs. They win.

EmeraldMaryland vs. Oregon State Ahh the Emerald Nuts Bowl in San Francisco...I remember when GT was happy to go here a few years back to extend their "amazing" streak of consecutive bowls played. Give me a break. This bowl sucks, but GT would LOVE to be there right now instead of Boise. HA! Umm Take Maryland over the Randy Beavers.

Meineke Car CareUConn vs. Wake Forest UCONN was in contention for a BCS bowl a few weeks ago. Wake is the defending ACC champ. HA! This is how GREAT Big East and ACC football is. Take Wake Forest because UCONN's coach is dumb. He Foglered it (reference to my www.790thezone.com article for this week) by staying at UCONN instead of going to GT. Actually he didn't want to go and lose to Mark Richt next season with Taylor Bennett as his QB. Maybe he is smarter than I thought. Wake wins.

AutoZone Liberty UCF vs. Mississippi State Not only did Sly Croom make a bowl game (and steal Coach of the Year honors from Mark Richt) but he made a better bowl than the Independence. WOW. But I don't think they can stop the UCF running back who leads the nation, though he did seem insulted that the ESPN reporter alluded to the fact that with 168 yards he will break Barry Sanders' single season rushing record, but he would do it in 14 games and Sanders did it in 11. That was comedy.

Valero AlamoPenn State vs. Texas A&M JoePa doesn't need to REMEMBER the Alamo, he was there. Seriously, I think JoePa was around for the first Alamo Bowl when Santa Anna won over Sam Bowie on a late fake punt. ba-da cheeeee Thank you, thank you. TAMU wins with better talent. RETIRE ALREADY JOEPA!

PetroSun IndependenceAlabama vs. Colorado Lose this game and you just paid $4M THIS SEASON to have a losing record. You could have paid Mike Shula MUCH less for a similar result. HA. But to Bama's credit, 2000-Saban will end with a victory.

Bell Helicopter Armed ForcesCalifornia vs. Air Force Cal was at one time ranked 2 in the country, and would have been 1, if their stupid QB hadn't run out of time by running up the middle with no timeouts. I thought smart people went to Berkley? Maybe not. Cal is another one of those "this game sucks" teams and they MIGHT lose to AFA. But I doubt it. Cal wins a close one

Roady's HumanitarianGeorgia Tech vs. Fresno State I hear downtown Boise is lovely on New Year's Eve. HA! TAKE FREZNO! JUST DO IT! Tenuta is OUT THE DOOR. HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THIS GAME! And Taylor Bennett is STILL on the roster. HA!

Brut SunSouth Florida vs. Oregon A few weeks ago both teams were in the top 5 and people thought they would play in a BCS bowl. Instead they are playing in a bowl game sponsored by Jack Palance. Is he still alive? Take SoFla and Matt Grothe.

Gaylord Hotels Music CityKentucky vs. Florida State FSU has to suspend 25 players because of an on-line test they took for a class. I want NO more jokes about UGA's basketball coaching class. At least players had to GO somewhere to take that test, instead of just rolling over and taking it on-line. Andre Woodson and the UK Cats eat up a FSU team that won't care about the GAYLORD HOTELS MUSIC CITY BOWL

Insight Indiana vs. Oklahoma State "The greatest Offense on earth" plays "Play 13" I think Indiana's goal was just to make a bowl. Okie State on the other hand is a bunch of MEN. Plus their coach is 40! He's a MAN! Go with the MAN!

Chick-fil-AClemson vs. Auburn Let's see, Tommy Bowden just got a contract extension, so that means he is OFF the hot seat....which means he won't win this one. And By the way, I don't want to hear ANY Klimpsen fans b*&^h about TB for at least 3 years. You guys ALWAYS want him gone, but as soon as he was flirting with Arkie, you went apesh*t and demanded a contract extension and rasie so he would stay. Therefore you are stuck with him and you clearly WANT HIM. You could have gotten rid of him when he was going to Arkie, but YOU BROUGHT HIM BACK. Therefore, STOP SCREAMING FOR A NEW COACH! Auburn wins this one too. and i laugh.

OutbackWisconsin vs. Tennessee They should remain this the Wisconsin Bowl, since they play in it EVERY YEAR. And PS, you can't spell oUTback without UT! HA! See, I Spurriered it! Wisco wins this one because Fulmer sucks without David Cutcliffe and DC is ALREADY thinking about Duke. I will be rooting for UT, but they will lose. PS, they were only the Eastern Division CO-Champs, along with UGA. They won the tiebreaker. To all of the folks that didn't realize this or were ignoring it because they didn't want UGA in the title game. Co-Champs. Look it up.

AT&T CottonMissouri vs. Arkansas Mizzou SHOULD be the team that hates this game, heck they were 1 entering the last week of the season and now they are in the Cotton Bowl. They crush an Arkansas team that underwent a Vesectomy (neutered. No more Nutt. Get it?). Chase Daniel starts the 2008 Heisman Campaign with a win here. Then Run DMC runs off the the Falcons.

Konica Minolta Gator Texas Tech vs. Virginia UVA in a New Year's Day Bowl Game. Groh must STAY. And Daddio JUST bashed his head into a wall. Chris Long and Co are talented, but Texas Tech's O is too strong. Mike Leach wins and then exits for UCLA.

Capital OneMichigan vs. Florida Tim Tebow is a heisman winner. How did the heisman winner do last year in the bowl game? Well all I know is, the Boogeyman checks under his bed for Tebow at night. Tim Tebow doesn't go to Florida, Florida goes to tim tebow. Lloyd Carr's team couldn't beat tOSU for him, why would they beat Florida for him? Florida is MUCH faster than App State, a team that ALSO beat Michigan. Hey Rich, you sure you want to get into this?

Rose Bowl presented by CitiIllinois vs. USC This will be a spanking, all because the old foggies wanted tradition over UGA/USC or OU/USC or OU/UGA. Stupid tradition. do i REALLY need to say USC will make Zook want to move to Mexico?

Tostitos FiestaOklahoma vs. West Virginia Maybe the best bowl game of the year. Until RR left to go to Michigan. Oh well. OU now certainly wins to avenge their 2007 Fiesta Bowl appearance.

FedEx OrangeVirginia Tech vs. Kansas Really? The Orange Bowl wanted KU over Mizzou? Mizzou crushed KU recently, but they took Mangino, why? He's thinking Arby's. VaTech wins and we have to hear about how great Beamer Ball is. YOU ARE PLAYING KU!

InternationalRutgers vs. Ball State Greg Shiano turned down the Michigan job a year after turning down the Miami gig. All to stay in New Jersey, the ARMPIT OF AMERICA. What job is he waiting for? Paul Mack says the Penn State Job. I say, take the Michigan job. Shoot take ANY job to get out of New Jersey. Are you kidding me? I am going to root HARD for Ball State, but Rutgers will win. I want Shiano to Fogler himself. www.790thezone.com if you don't get that reference

GMACBowling Green vs. Tulsa I think it is so cute when crap bowls put themselves right smack dab in the middle of the BCS schedule so we will notice them. And by "cute" I mean shi&ty. WHO CARES? ummm Tulsa wins

Allstate BCS Championship GameLSU vs. Ohio State I think it will be closer than last year's game even though LSU is far more talented than Florida was last year and tOSU doesn't have the Offensive playmakers they had last year. Why? well Tressell loves this type of slow-down-grind-it-out offense that relies on a smart QB that doesn't make mistakes and a power running game with a tough-as-nails D which he has this year, but not last year. Also LSU is coached by Les Miles, and he is a HORRIBLE coach. I think he pulls a Roy Williams and goes to Michigan in 4 years when RR gets fired after he loses 4 straight to tOSU. LSU wins DESPITE Les Miles and the SEC gets props AGAIN for being a strong conference.

Allstate SugarHawaii vs. Georgia Per tradition I am not predicting a winner, but I will drop the keys to the game. UGA's Defense needs to flex its muscles against this team that has a great Offense, but come on, they have been playing Northern Colorado, Charleston State and the powerful WAC conference. Of course they have huge numbers. And FYI, if Matt Stafford threw the ball 60 times a game, he'd throw 500 ypg up there too.
Also, if Knowshon and TB keep running and running, then UGA's O wil be on the field and Hawaii's O will be on the sideline. KEEP COLT THERE!
Finally, treat Colt like you did Tebow. hit him hard and on EVERY PLAY. make him scared to stand in there. after a few hits from UGA's angry D-line, he MAY think he is back in prison for sexual assault.
Happy Bowling!