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How Legit Are Bowl Game Winning Streaks?
Last night, Boise State slept walked past Utah 26-3 to win the Las Vegas bowl, snapping Utah's nine-game bowl winning streak. Utah's streak was the nation's longest active streak, and second longest bowl winning streak in history. Today, Ivan Maisel in his daily 3-point stance, questions how...
College Football Bowl Sponsors: This Is Getting A Little Ridiculous, No?
Long gone are the days when Boston College played in the Orange, Sugar, Cotton and Tangerine Bowls. And I mean long gone. Those select few college football bowl games have been replaced by an ACC bowl lineup that includes the Advocare V100 Independence Bowl, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, the Hyundai...
Food Chain: Toughest Boston College Bowl Opponents 2001-2010
BC is in the odd position of falling to the ACC's last bowl slot, yet playing the second toughest opponent of any ACC bowl team (at least according to the BCS). So how does Nevada stack up to BC's last 10 years of bowl opponents? Food Chain: Toughest Boston College Bowl Opponents 2000-2010 We...
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The potential (and still very much speculative) shuffle in regards to the Big Ten and their Florida bowl tie-ins wasn't much of an issue for me me until this came through the reader, emph mine: The Champs Sports Bowl, which currently has deals with the Big Ten and ACC, could encounter the...
The Motor City Bowl: why, Jim Delany?
Last night, Purdue, the Big Ten's eighth bowl team, blew a big lead but kicked a field goal as time expired to beat MAC Champion Central Michigan. I realize it's politically correct to claim to root for fellow Big Ten schools during bowl season, but I have to confess that I wasn't in the Boilers'...
More on the Bowl Picture
The latest news? Not all that bad, really. Looks like a bowl game in Boise would be unlikely - that's actually good news, because no one likes Boise anyway. Officials in their respective conferences are trying to get Boise State and Ball State together in a bowl, creating an appetizing matchup...
A Bowl Record, Like A Bad Joke, Needs Context
Canada, huh? Almost made it. Stuart Mandel, with just two weeks until kick-off, broke down and put together a Great Conference Debate story over at SI. The actual story is everything you hoped you'd never have to hear again, but because I too am wearing thin, I've read almost the entire...
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