It's the College Football thread!

[Imran Siddiqui]

It doesn't help that with the Sugar in Atlanta this year because of Katrina, it's practically a road game for them.

True dat... but the Mountaineers do travel well, so hopefully that negates a bit of it.

Btw, outside of the BCS bowls, the Gator and Peach Bowls look fun. The Gator Bowl matches VTech against Louisville while the Peach has LSU v. Miami.

[Guynemer]

I'm gonna go ahead and pick the winners in each bowl game. Cower in fear at my football prognostication prowess, mortals.

New Orleans Bowl: Southern Miss over Arkansas State
GMAC Bowl: Toledo over UTEP
Poinsettia Bowl: Navy over Colorado State
Las Vegas Bowl: Cal over BYU (BYU, in Vegas? )
Fort Worth Bowl: Kansas over Houston
Hawaii Bowl: Nevada over Central Florida
Motor City Bowl: Akron over Memphis
Champs Sports Bowl: Clemson over Colorado
Insight Bowl: Arizona State over Rutgers (sorry, Imran)
MPC Computers Bowl: Boise State over Boston College
Alamo Bowl: Michigan over Nebraska
Emerald Bowl: Georgia Tech over Utah
Holiday Bowl: Oklahoma over Oregon (you heard it here first)
Music City Bowl: Virginia over Minnesota
Sun Bowl: UCLA over Northwestern
Independance Bowl: South Carolina over Missouri
Peach Bowl: LSU over Miami
Meineke Car Care Bowl (?!?!): NC State over South Florida
Liberty Bowl: Fresno State over Tulsa
Houston Bowl: TCU over Iowa State
Cotton Bowl: Alabama over Texas Tech
Outback Bowl: Iowa over Florida
Gator Bowl: Virginia Tech over Louisville
CapitalOne Bowl: Auburn over Wisconsin (sorry, Barry)
Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State over Notre Dame
Sugar Bowl: Georgia over West Virginia
Orange Bowl: Penn State over Florida State
Rose Bowl: USC over Texas


EDIT: added the Poinsettia Bowl, which I had inexplicably missed the first time. That's 28 fearless prognostications, people. Who's your daddy?

[Apocalypse]

Oklahoma should win over Oregon. Pac-10 sucks after USC as Texas Tech showed last year.

[Guynemer]

Do we need 28 bowls? Honestly?

Some games that catch my eye, apart from the BCS games:

The CapitalOne Bowl shouldn't be much of a game, but don't count out the Badgers wanting to give Alvarez a final win.

The Hawkeyes ought to complete an odd season with a minor upset in the Outback Bowl.

Roll Tide--Alabama should continue to expose Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl.

The Peach Bowl could go either way, and will probably end up as one of the best three or four bowls this year.

The Sun Bowl should have a lot of fireworks between the Bruins and the Wildcats.

The Sooners will make a statement for next year and beat the bejeezus outta the Ducks in the Holiday Bowl.

Those are the games that ought to be the most exciting and surprising.


EDIT: 28 bowls, not 27. Damned Poinsettia Bowl.

[reismark]

I'll think about making picks later for the rest of the bowl games, but my picks for the BCS games are:

Texas in the Rose
Penn State in the Orange
Notre Dame in the Fiesta
Georgia in the Sugar

[Apocalypse]

I think Texas Tech will win the cotton bowl. They were the only team to have an upset last year.

[Guynemer]

I'm still tickled by the thought of the Fightin' Mormons playing their bowl game in Las Vegas.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm sure Bobby Petrino over in Louisville is taking a look at Miami and, especially, FSU in their victories over VTech. It seems over the last half of the season they lost a step. Hopefully they can keep on sticking it to them .

[Guynemer]

I'd love to see it happen, but I don't think it is in the cards, no pun intended. That Louisville D is real thin--anorexic, even.

[Imran Siddiqui]

What, the FSU defense was great?

[Guynemer]

Touche.

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by Donegeal




On Wisconsin!

C'mon, Donegeal, have a little more faith in your boys.

Up for an avatar bet on the game?

[DanS]

This is going to be a rough Christmas.

My sis dotted the I when she was in the marching band at OSU. The rest of the family are mostly Notre Dame fans, but there are OSU fans peppered in.

Ooh, I'm already starting to get stoked...

Big Game Time!!!

[DanS]

This is really delicious. Brady Quinn played against AJ Hawk in peewee football!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by reismark
It's official:

http://www.bcsfootball.org/news.cfm?headline=139

Not a bad set of games. The closest to a dud is Florida State/Penn State and that's only because of the recent run of suck the Seminoles have been on. I'm really anxious to see USC/Texas & Notre Dame/Ohio State, though, and curious to see if West Virginia can play with the big boys. (It doesn't help that with the Sugar in Atlanta this year because of Katrina, it's practically a road game for them.)

More correctly, it's a home game for Georgia.

ACK!