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unACCeptable

The BCS bowls played the last two nights have featured two ACC teams.  Like usual, neither team was able to win their game.  As a conference, the ACC is now 2-13 all time in BCS bowl games.  That’s a winning percentage of .154.  Dreadful.  That is easily the worst record among the Big Six conferences.

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College Bowl “Mania”

In the midst of college bowl season, after a handful of games had been played and the best were yet to come, I asked my brother what games he was interested in seeing. My brother is not a college football fanatic. He is some level even below a casual observer. He likes to know what happens in college football without really having to watch full contests. It’s the equivalent of someone saying they enjoy a ...

AllState Sugar Bowl Breakdown

The Big Ten sends Denard Robinson and the Wolverines to the Sugar Bowl and the ACC is sending Logan Thomas and the talented Hokies. This game features two great, athletic quarterbacks and two outstanding defenses. The Wolverines have not won a bowl games since 2007 and have not won a BCS bowl game since they won the 1999 Orange Bowl under Lloyd Carr. This game means a lot for the Wolverines and newly ...

Rose Bowl Breakdown

The Rose Bowl has been coined the “granddaddy of them all” and this game should be an epic clash. The Pac 12 sends the mighty Oregon Ducks and the Big Ten sends the dynamic Wisconsin Badgers. Both teams are fresh off victories in their respective conferences inaugural championship game. This game looks to be fast paced and a great watch, as both teams have high powered offenses. Which team has the edge this year in ...

The College Football Playoff; What Would Have Been

Fans have long been demanding the BCS to transform from a bowl only system to a playoff system to crown the true national champion. Like it or not, the BCS has yet to change, and likely will not. But if there was a playoff system, here is what it might look like this year. Using an eight team playoff system, with the winner from each automatic qualifying conference (SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big East, ...

Big XII Bowl Game Breakdowns

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl

3 Oklahoma State vs. 4 Stanford

The Fiesta Bowl might be the most exciting bowl game to watch over the holidays. Two great offenses will collide in Glendale, Arizona. Oklahoma ...

Barry Sanders, The Best There has Ever Been?

Montee Ball will presumably break, or at least tie, Barry Sanders NCAA “regular season” touchdown record during Wisconsin’s upcoming BCS bowl. He only needs one more score to do so. Nowadays, stats accumulated in bowl games count towards season totals and career numbers. This was not the case prior to 2002 and that is why taking a look back at Barry Sanders’ 1988 season as an Oklahoma State Cowboy is so ...