Bowling For Doughnuts
I can't believe that I sat and watched most of every single bowl game yesterday. Thanks to split screen technology, I watched games from the time they came on until the end of the Sugar Bowl. Some random thoughts:
- The Outback Bowl was the best game of the day and one of the most exciting of the year. Auburn tried time and time again to lose, but, in the end, the injury to the Northwestern kicker and the fake field gaol attempt did the Wildcats in. What a fun game this was, especially the fourth quarter.
- The Gator Bowl was a nice tribute to Bobby Bowden, who deserved every bit of it. Lost in all of it though is the retirement of FSU defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews. I will miss Bobby Bowden and thought he got a raw deal, but Florida State's administration and their fans expect them to be in a BCS game, not the Gator Bowl. Of course, they ran the man who set those expectations out of town.
- The
CitrusCapital One Bowl proved that LSU was all hype this year and that if Les Miles doesn't want to wind up like Charlie Weis, he'll course correct now. Kudos to JoPa and Penn State for a great year (except for the Iowa game.) - The Rose Bowl showed us that Terrelle Pryor can live up to the hype and be the dominant player he should have been. On the other hand, Oregon came out and laid a huge duck egg. You can credit the OSU defense of lack of execution by the Oregon offense. Either way, the results were surprising.
- The Sugar Bowl was a fitting farewell to Tim Tebow. If you thought this game would be anything other than a rout, you have obviously not paid attention this year. I would have liked to have seen TCU instead of Cincinnati to see if TCU could play with Florida. See, all of the people that bemoan the smaller conferences can do that as long as they don't meet on the field. The Big East is an outstanding basketball conference, but as far as football is concerned, you saw what happened.
- Does not Fox announcer Brian Billick look and sound like Ed Begley Jr.?
- Thom Brenneman must have said it was Urban Meyer's last game fifteen times. Memo to Thom: You're going to be shocked when Meyer is on the Florida sideline in September. None of the rest of us will be.
- CBS was moaning about the BCS and how the Mountain West is feeling slighted because they are four and oh in bowl games. The most significant victory they had was in the Poinsettia Bowl when Utah beat Cal. Other than that, beating Fresno State and Houston were no big deals and BYU beating Oregon State was no upset either. I guarantee you if you put those Mountain West teams on the field with a top ranked Big Ten, Big 12 or SEC team, the results would be different. And I'm all for a playoff to prove it if it will keep Orin Hatch from wasting my tax dollars.
- Poor CBS. They tried to interview Bobby Bowden after the game and Tracey Wolfson's microphone kept going out. Coach Bowden was gracious enough to wait around and try it again. Of course, she must have asked him three times about how he felt at that moment. Damn it, Jim. This is football not Oprah
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