Wahoo Wahoos!
Yes, I'm still working feverishly on N.C. State-USF bowl preview stuff (sick of it yet??), but I did manage to keep one eye on the Virginia-Minnesota game that just finished. The Cavs pulled it out, 34-31.
This was the sort of game that provides the argument for having 28 bowl games. Did either team really deserve to be in the post-season? That's debatable. But we still witnessed a heck of a game that probably would never have occurred otherwise. It was a chance to see Minnesota's punishing running game and to see Virginia's Marques Haggans and Wali Lundy one more time. No one disappointed.
And hey, how about Al Groh filling three or four coaching positions all by himself?
Meanwhile, Northwestern and UCLA are staging a shootout in the Sun Bowl and my beloved chickens are getting ready to play in the Independence Bowl. Ahhh, bowl season, baby!
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The best thing about bowl games like those -- besides seeing Al and Mike Groh try to coach a team all by themselves while OC-turned-K-State head coach Ron Prince stands idly by -- is they serve as a viewer insurance policy.
Who knew LSU-Miami would be such a dud? Probably about as many people as thought Northwestern-UCLA would be a wild shootout. So drained were we after those games, my friends and I never even got around to replaying this year's two Redskins-Cowboys games on TiVo as we'd planned Friday.
Now, let's see if Ohio State-Notre Dame can live up to billing in the Fiesta Bowl.
Posted on January 2, 2006 4:53 PM