PROBLEM: Boise State wants to move its game vs. Virginia Tech at FedEx Field in D.C. to Labor Day, for increased national exposure, but it is currently scheduled to play Toledo five days later in Boise. Chris Petersen can ask his former boss, Dan Hawkins, about what can happen to teams that play Toledo on five days’ rest. PROBLEM: If… Read more »
The moment of truth has arrived: I’m about to start watching the Fiesta Bowl, roughly 25 hours after kickoff. I was too busy to watch the game last night, so I TiVoed it, and then ever since the game started yesterday, I’ve assiduously avoided Twitter, Facebook, blog comments, e-mail (for the most part), and any news or sports or other… Read more »
With four bowl games left in the college football season — the Fiesta Bowl tonight, the Orange Bowl tomorrow night, the GMAC Bowl Wednesday night, and the “National Championship Game” Thursday night — 24 contestants are still mathematically alive to win the 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest. Details after the jump. Also, an aside: I am… Read more »
Wow:
I’m talking, of course, about the Denver Broncos, not the Boise State Broncos. I don’t follow the NFL very closely — I’m much more of a college football fan — but living in Denver, the saga of the Broncos this season has been impossible to miss. After the offseason Cutler/McDaniels kerfuffle, the team wasn’t expected to do much with a… Read more »
Playing on the blue turf in Boise, that other Division I-A football team from the state of Idaho pulled out an epic win over Bowling Green in the Humanitarian Bowl tonight, giving up a late, heartbreaking touchdown, then rallying for a dramatic TD to pull within one, and eschewing the score-tying, game-extending P.A.T. in favor of the ultimate high-risk, high-reward… Read more »
Urban Meyer taking indefinite leave instead?
Quite possibly the single most easily mockable bowl game in the history of college football, at least on paper, is underway: Marshall vs. Ohio in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. Thank God the lords of college football are committed to avoiding a legitimate system of determining the sport’s national champion in order to preserve the sublime tradition and pageantry of… Read more »
Bowl season started off with a bang tonight, courtesy of 6-6 Wyoming’s double-overtime win over heavily favored, 8-4 Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl. And, thanks to that shocking upset, just about everyone’s pick sheets have already been thrown for a loop. Only one person out of 50 in the 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest… Read more »
Well, on the bright side, meeting La Rev at Chopper’s was fun. He’s a cool guy. His wife and parents are nice, too. On the down side: pretty much everything about the game we were watching. The goofy smiles and thumbs-up in this photo, taken after the game, are most definitely ironic: Andy Katz writes, “The Zags can’t look as… Read more »