My early predictions are that the Big East and Big10 are going to get raped... as usual.

The Oregon, auburn game should be a classic. To much Oregon fire power for Auburn's defense to sustain for 4 quarters.

Boise St. Utah game will show why Kellen Moore will be the Heisman front runner next year.

Stanford, Virginia Tech should be another good game. Stanford wins this one and Luck goes #1 in the NFL draft.

Washington, Nebraska game should be interesting up til the opening kick off. All Big Red in this one.

GO COOGS!!!

Mf

Oregon has a little too much O for Auburn, but I think it's mutual. That one's gonna be a barn burner. Might be 100 points between them.

Boise St will blow Utah's doors off. Superior football team. Boise should still be considered one of the most dangerous teams in the country with Moore at the helm.

Stanford's Luck shows why he's the best QB in NCAA football in a route.

And my personal favoirte......Big Red b*tch slaps the dogs and this one is never close.....again

When the dust settles OREGON DUCKS are the national champions!!!

JD

Last nights Boise St. game was all most unwatchable.

Mf

The Poinsettia Bowl field in San Diego State is under water.

I will watch a few for the interest of a "pool". I will watch Go Daddy to see some of the Hotties in the commercials

The BSU game was a stinker. Two bad teams. If Utah had anyone who could catch it might have been decent. I'd like to see Oregon win but I think their slow starts are going to bite them in this one. Hope i'm wrong. Luck has a good O line. Without that he's average.

Rose bowl should be decent, the NC will be great as Oregon will get raped, and shut the obnoxious *uck fans up.

Vegas likes UO.

This bowl doesn't make sense to me. Why would a bowl committee combine such a matchup? With 30 different college football bowls, I would have thought that a better matchup could have been arranged?

You could argue that a 6-6 team shouldn't be in a bowl game. But its not the coaches or players fault the system is the way it is. UW had a goal to go to a bowl this year and had to rally back on many occasions to get there. I'm happy for them for realizing their goal. But matching them up against a Nebraska team, who they already played this year and whooped them, seems a little stupid.

Regardless, having follwed UW football since the early 80s, I'll still root for them just like I'd root for the Cougars...IF they were playing in a bowl game.

Dawgs will get waxed and finish with a sub .500 record...AGAIN.

Dave,
That was the Big 12's way of punishing Nebraska for going to the Big 10. Kind of a FU good bye present.
I think the Dawgs will be much more competitive against the Cornhuskers in the Holiday bowl then earlier in the season.

As far as the NC game, I hope Auburn pounds the Ducks.

Hey Keith...............tell us about ASU's bowl game.

Oh that's right...........

Fish on...

Todd

WTF ?
Your team's butt sore and it hasn't shut your ass up

Maybe Santa will bring you some Monkey Butt

I dunno.

No one has been able to stop Camnewt. He's a friggin beast....a proverbial freak of nature. (6'-6" and 250#)
Alabama shut him down for a half, then the Tigers came roaring back in the second half to win the Iron Bowl.

Oregon's defense is smaller but faster than the Tigers have faced.
Maybe they can keep him fenced in, show him different looks and blitz packages. The Oregon D will need to tighten the chin straps for this one.
The up side for the Oregon D is that they have been able to practice against a fast offense because the Ducks offense is even faster than Auburn's.
Oregon will need some picks and takeaways.

Special teams, Oregon can take it to house on any touch.

The Oregon offense will be up against a Tiger D line that is very good at stopping an inside running attack. One exception that I saw was in the Kentucky game. Kentucky will sometimes go into a shotgun read set that is Oregon's bread and butter. From that set Kentucky was able to rip off huge chunks of yardage, inside and out.

The Tiger D and Nick Fairley DT are very effective against a pro-style, under center type offense. Oregon with it's shotgun sets should be able to negate some of the Tiger D line effectiveness. If Nick Fairley does get a hold of Darron Thomas it will hurt.
Fairley is an expert at driving QB's into the ground with maximum PSI from his 297 pounds.

The Tiger D has to be concerned with Oregon's pace.....80 plays a game....snapping the ball within 5 seconds of spotting.
If the Oregon O can gas them in the second half it could be very fruitful. In preparation, the Tiger D is working on cardio but I'm not sure if you can fix that in a month's time.

It pains me a bit to say it, but I'm going to root for the Zeros...Pac-10 solidarity and all, and screw the SEC.

That being said...the prevailing attitude around the country is that Auburn will kick O's ass...and while I see Oregon turning some heads and surprising some people, I don't really expect them to win...I think it will be a high scoring game, but I think Auburn's offense will outscore Oregon's offense, and that will be the game right there...

Auburn 47, Oregon 32...book it.

Fish on...

Todd

Seems reasonable enough but does the Big 12 have a total say in who goes where? Doens't the bowl committee have some say? I mean, there were plenty of other 6-6 and 7-5 teams going bowling that would have matched up with the Dawgs rather than the 10-3 Huskers. Except for a few bowls that have automatic berths depending on specific placement, isn't the idea to arrange closely matched teams so that the games will be close so the TV ratings will be higher?

Merry Xmas Dan! GO DAWGS:)

Dave,
I'm sure the Big 12 had a huge influence on which teams play in which bowls this year. Nebraska played in the conference championship game, yet ended up in the conferences 5th bowl spot?
The bowls have the choice, but you can believe the conference made it clear which teams it would like to see in the bowls.
Texas A & M to the Cotton bowl was easy, but you can bet the conference has some influence on the next choices, Oklahoma St to the Alamo and Missouri to the Insight.
As I said, that is Big 12's way of saying good bye to Nebraska and preserving and strengthening the conference bowl alliances for the future.
Due to their contract, the Holiday Bowl was locked in the the 5th Big 12 school.
Funny how that work out, isn't it.........