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OT - College Football Bowl Spectacular (December 2022 - January 2023)
December 30 8:00 PM Orange Bowl Tennessee v. Clemson
December 31 12:00 PM Sugar Bowl Alabama v. Kansas State
4:00 PM Fiesta Bowl TCU v. Michigan
8:00 PM Peach Bowl Ohio State v. Georgia
January 2 1:00 PM Cotton Bowl Tulane v. USC
5:00 PM Rose Bowl Penn State v. Utah
January 9 8:00 PM Championship Game Fiesta winner v. Peach winner
Lance Reddick! Lance him!
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December 16 11:30 AM Bahamas Bowl Miami v. UAB 3:00 PM Sunshine Classic UT-San Antonio v. Troy December 17 11:00 AM Fenway Bowl Cincinnati v. Louisville 2:15 PM New Mexico Bowl SMU v. BYU 3:30 PM LA Bowl Washington State v. Fresno State 5:45 PM Mobile Alabama Bowl Rice v. Southern Miss 7:30 PM Las Vegas Bowl Florida v. Oregon State 9:15 PM Frisco Bowl North Texas v. Boise State December 19 2:30 PM Myrtle Beach Bowl Marshall v. Connecticut December 20 3:30 PM Humanitarian Bowl Eastern Michigan v. San Jose State 7:30 PM Boca Raton Bowl Liberty v. Toledo December 21 9:00 PM New Orleans Bowl Western Kentucky v. South Alabama December 22 7:30 PM Armed Forces Bowl Baylor v. Air Force December 23 3:00 PM Independence Bowl UL-Lafayette v. Houston 6:30 PM St. Petersburg Bowl Wake Forest v. Missouri December 24 8:00 PM Hawai'i Bowl Middle Tennessee State v. San Diego State December 26 2:30 PM Cherry Bowl New Mexico State v. Bowling Green December 27 12:00 PM Camellia Bowl Georgia Southern v. Buffalo 3:15 PM Heart of Dallas Bowl Memphis v. Utah State 6:45 PM Birmingham Bowl Coastal Carolina v. East Carolina 10:15 PM Copper Bowl Wisconsin v. Oklahoma State December 28 2:00 PM Military Bowl Central Florida v. Duke 5:30 PM Liberty Bowl Kansas v. Arkansas 8:00 PM Holiday Bowl North Carolina v. Oregon 9:00 PM Texas Bowl Texas Tech v. Mississippi December 29 2:00 PM Gotham Bowl Syracuse v. Minnesota 5:30 PM Tangerine Bowl Oklahoma v. Florida State 9:00 PM Alamo Bowl Texas v. Washington December 30 12:00 PM Queen City Bowl Maryland v. NC State 2:00 PM Sun Bowl Pittsburgh v. UCLA 3:30 PM Gator Bowl Notre Dame v. South Carolina 4:30 PM Arizona Bowl Ohio v. Wyoming December 31 12:00 PM Music City Bowl Iowa v. Kentucky January 2 12:00 PM Hall of Fame Bowl Mississippi State v. Illinois 1:00 PM Citrus Bowl LSU v. PurdueYes sir, right there in the tent labeled "Filthy Liars". No need to rush, there are enough prizes for everyone.
And they're playing a pretty superior team anyway in Oregon State. That game might get ugly.
No point getting hurt in a game you're not getting paid to play.
Yep, precisely. This is exactly why Jalen Kitna won't play in the bowl game.
But, oh, the finish!
Trailing 20-17 with 1:34 left, UAB faced 4th-and-1 at the Miami 12 and went for it, opening a gigantic hole and scoring on a run up the middle. Then Miami converted two fourth downs and got a facemask with a second left that moved the ball to the 15, only to throw short of the goal line on the final play and get Kevin Dysoned.
And then Steve Levy had to oversell it, calling it perhaps the greatest Bahamas Bowl ever, as though the craziest finish in the history of sports didn't happen on this field eight years ago.
Troy won despite 153 total yards. And it's not like it was picking up 17 yards and punting and pulling off some field position miracle; there were turnovers and a snap through the end zone for a safety. There's only one way to win with an offensive performance this inept, and it involves the opposition turning the ball over on practically every possession, as UTSA did after going up 12-0. Still had a chance to win after a long run inside the 10 trailing 18-12 with seven minutes left, but it turned the ball over on downs after a drop in the end zone on second down.
And it didn't feel like a rivalry game at all, which is a nice reminder of what realignment has taken from us.
Not as sad as Miller's looked so far. Hopefully he's just working through some rust and settles down.
Sad or not, I would have loved to go to this game - first time the Gators have played west of the Rockies in nearly 16 years (the 2006 BCS Championship - when they open next season at Utah, it will be the first regular season game they've played west of the Rockies since a 1983 trip to USC).
But flight costs and work conspired to kill the dream.
And now I just want to construct one of my own old-school bowl schedules.
This has been a really uneven season for the Gators, which I don't think surprised any of us. But still, this game is a huge disappointment for me - not even because they're losing, or even losing big. But they're so completely unprepared and uncompetitive, and I didn't expect that. I expected that they probably wouldn't be good enough to win, but it shouldn't be going down like this. This is just sad.
Not with that play call. That's exactly the kind of play that has failed for them almost literally every time they've tried it in this game - Miller's scrambling aside, they have 25 rushing yards today on 17 handoffs. Not even averaging what they needed for the first down. Without exaggeration, I'd have rather they just chucked a hail mary into the end zone.
Honestly, it was more of a white flag than a field goal would have been.
If there's even a 0.01% chance of coming back, then go for it. But 7 points does exactly as much for you as 3 points when you're down 30 and there's only 42 seconds left.
Today was awful but it's not close to all-time program-history awful.
But they finally found some life trailing by 17 early in the fourth, and it led to what was maybe the play of bowl season so far. Facing 4th-and-goal from the one, Rangel kept on a zone read and had a defender immediately shoot in and wrap him up around the legs at the five, but as he was going down managed to underhand the ball to the back he'd initially faked to in the end zone.
From there, what had been a ho-hum game managed to at least provide a little suspense, with Okie State again driving inside the 10 before stalling and kicking a field goal, then getting the ball back with three minutes and a chance to tie, only for Rangel to get picked off, after which Wisconsin managed to run out the string.
Sagarin has NMSU as a "respectable" 94th, with Bowling Green at 262 (including FCS).
F+ had Bowling Green at 116th and NMSU at 120th.
In all cases these might have been considered the two very weakest teams this year to get a bowl game.
Surprisingly NMSU actually reached, and won, a bowl a few years ago, in 2017. Before that it had been 57 years since their last bowl. Bowling Green has been much more successful in the last few decades, getting a bowl game almost half the time since the 80s. None before that though, despite being around since 1919.
penn state v. utah is a very intriguing matchup.
penn state hasn't beaten anyone this year. but...their only losses are to ohio state and michigan, who are both in the playoff. so there's a real question lingering about how good they actually are. they're not actually good, but are they top 6/7 good? or are they just top 15-20 good.
utah is ranked higher than penn state (8 v. 11), despite having more losses (3 v. 2), and to worse teams (florida, UCLA and oregon v. tosu/mitchigan). but they're also the only team that beat 10th ranked USC this year, and they did it twice.
as someone who is vaguely obsessed with the taxonomic eccentricities of college football, this game actually has a lot of meat in it. i tend to be a "strength of wins" person, which would put utah above penn state. but penn state also played a true road game against an SEC blue blood, which is something that should be rewarded as a way to encourage teams to schedule reasonably competitive non-conference games in the future, even though auburn turned out to be a raging dumpster fire.
anyway, penn state still has 7th year senior sean clifford at QB, so they'll probably lose in an excruciating fashion.
also: mcsorley actually won big games (tosu/B1G championship/rose bowl), which is something that clifford, in his 16th year of eligibility, has still yet to do a single time.
...but it just recovered an onside kick and is 50 yards and a two-point conversion from tying.
Arkansas then scored with ease to open the second overtime, also making the two-point conversion to lead by eight. Kansas faced 2nd-and-17 after a hold, then on 3rd-and-6 Daniels had all day to stand in the pocket, with a receiver finally coming open for a completion to the two. Daniels scored on a quarterback sweep, then ran again on the two-point attempt and was met by three defenders at the one, but the game was kept alive by a targeting (crown of the helmet) call, giving Kansas a second chance from the one, which was converted with another pass to Casey in the flat.
So we go to penalty kicks.
14-14 with Oregon driving, and a Nix pass is broken up, the ball falls behind the defender and hits his calf as his heel is coming up, directing it toward another defender, then off that defender's toe as he's reaching down for it, bouncing it up into his hands. He returns to midfield, from whence Maye throws a touchdown pass with 26 seconds.
I think he might've scored if he'd run it.
UNC wasted its last timeout with the clock stopped after an Oregon incompletion on second down from the eight after letting about 25 seconds come off after the first down run, leaving it with just 19 seconds left to answer, so it ended up having to throw a Hail Mary. There was no Jim McMahon finish.
The 10-3 record for Lanning in his first season looks pretty good, except losing to our two rivals really sucks, especially when both should have been wins. I expect the defense to improve next season, but I have no idea what the offense will look like under the new coordinator.
Noles enter '23 with a championship-worthy offense and a defense that needs to get good enough to keep that offense from getting involved in shootouts with six-win teams.
To be fair, Oklahoma would have had much less time to work with had the FSU player not gotten hurt (which saved OU a timeout). But still...just let Travis go there.
All in all, a fun game with very little defense to be had which has kinda been the norm this year.
But NC State immediately validates the decision by chucking a ball up for grabs on the first play to effectively end the game.
In other Fraidy Cat Decision news, Doeren decided to kick on 4th-and-goal from the two, 4th-and-4 from the 21 and, most unforgivably, 4th-and-3 from the nine while trailing 13-9 in the middle of the fourth quarter.
After a Pitt touchdown to get within 28-21, Thompson-Robinson threw a bad pick in his own end that set up the Panthers at the 18, and they punched it in to tie the game. Kicking off into a stiff breeze, the ball came down at the 14 and UCLA muffed it, with Pitt recovering at the 19, leading to a go-ahead field goal. UCLA moved forward for the subsequent kick, but this one managed to carry to the three and land uncaught, forcing UCLA to dive on it.
Thompson-Robinson evidently got hurt on the third interception, so with his backup pinned deep, UCLA was rather turtly, leading to a punt that gave Pitt the ball in UCLA territory. With six minutes left, Pitt had a deep post for a touchdown and 10-point lead that was flat dropped. The drive progressed inside the five, but Patti had consecutive passes batted down at the line, so Pitt has just kicked a field goal to go up 34-28.
4:24 left for Ethan Garbers to play hero.
Play 1: 17-yard completion to the sideline, out of bounds.
Play 2: 29 seconds left. 15-yard completion to the middle of the field.
Play 3: Spike the ball, 20 seconds left. Ball at the UCLA 40.
Play 4: QB scramble up the middle - all UCLA has to do is bring him down short of the first down line and the game is over, but the linebacker attempts the worst tackle I've ever seen and they get a first down to temporarily stop the clock.
Play 5: Spike. 10 seconds left.
Play 6: FG is good. Ball game.
Just a master class in how not to play defense at the end of the game.
The first play was a strong throw to the hole in the zone between the corner and safety. The second was a catch by a receiver with a defender draped all over him.
On the scramble, Patti was initially angled toward the sideline, and the linebacker was selling out to beat him there and lost his feet when Patti turned upfield. Then as Patti was attempting to skip past the linebacker, he was hit from the left by a pursuing lineman, and that hit was counteracted just enough by a shoulder from the lunging linebacker to keep Patti from falling to his right, allowing him to keep his feet beneath him just well enough to dive for the sticks. A huge risk that worked out because of an accident of timing, really.
To the point that the announcers couldn't believe that he actually caught the ball.
Clemson on third down: Pretty bad
Clemson on fourth down: Yikes
10-0 as it is.
To wit, TCU's three touchdowns in the second half have been powered by plays of 46, 69 and 76. Before that, the longest play was the 32-yard pass to Johnston when the corner blitzed and no one covered him, and the only other play of even 15 yards was a 21-yard pass to Hudson in the first quarter.
If Michigan had gotten the stop on the first set of downs, it would've thrown away almost 80 seconds for no reason.
TCU, for the love of Christ, keep the magic going for one more game.
I think they are still reviewing whether that game ended in 2022 or 2023, lol.
now, 6 months ago or so, Ohio lawmakers decided it would be a great idea to launch legal sportsbooks in the state at midnight on Dec. 31/Jan. 1. no, I am not kidding.
the sportsbooks likely were pissed - until those two games. the whole state would have bet against Michigan - and won - and for Ohio State - and won (on the point spread, anyway), and the books would be bathing in red ink.
NH lost millions when first major legal event was Patriots winning their most recent Super Bowl.
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