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No moral victories, but Minnesota should be optimistic about its future
Minnesota might have lost the Meineke Car Care Bowl 34-31 to Texas Tech, but in no way should the Golden Gophers be disappointed with their effort. No one thought Jerry Kill’s team could hang with...
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Armed Forces Bowl preview: Air Force vs. Rice
Armed Forces Bowl Air Force (6-6) vs. Rice (6-6) Dec. 29, 11:45 a.m. ET (ESPN) About the Falcons: Air Force is in a bowl game for the sixth straight time, but barely. The Falcons suffered some odd...
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Pinstripe Bowl: West Virginia vs. Syracuse
Pinstripe Bowl West Virginia (7-5) vs. Syracuse (7-5) Dec. 29, 3:15 p.m. ET (ESPN) About the Mountaineers: The storyline on West Virginia is pretty well known. Through five games, the Mountaineers had...
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Navy paints Arizona State’s mountainside ‘A’ in navy colors
Navy usually saves its pranks for the weeks leading up to the Army game, but some supporters couldn’t resist showing their school spirit for the upcoming Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl game against Arizona...
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Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl preview: Navy vs. Arizona State
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Navy (8-4) vs. Arizona State (7-5) Dec. 29, 4 p.m. ET (ESPN2) About the Midshipmen: The triple option offense is one that has given defensive coordinators fits for years and...
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Rice, led by backup quarterback, gets a decisive bowl win against Air Force
There's a lot of griping about there being too many bowl games, and it's not unjustified. When there's a game between a pair of 6-6 teams, as happened in the Armed Forces Bowl on Saturday morning,...
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Alamo Bowl preview: Texas vs. Oregon State
Alamo Bowl Texas (8-4) vs. Oregon State (9-3) Dec. 29, 6:45 p.m. ET (ESPN) About the Longhorns: For the second consecutive season, Texas failed to live up to the expectations levied on it to start the...
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Syracuse emphatically completes West Virginia’s 2012 collapse
Geno Smith's college career ended on a sloppy field in a baseball stadium getting absolutely blown out by a 7-5 Big East team that was in the bottom quarter of the FBS in pass efficiency defense....
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Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl preview: TCU vs. Michigan State
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl TCU (7-5) vs. Michigan State (6-6) Dec. 29, 10:15 p.m. ET (ESPN) About the Horned Frogs: TCU’s first season as a member of the Big 12 didn’t go as well as the Horned Frogs...
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Texas wins the Alamo while Oregon State suffers a major coaching fail
At the end of Texas’ 31-27 come-from-behind win over Oregon State in the Alamo Bowl, most viewers were left with one questions: What was Mike Riley thinking? Riley, Oregon State’s head coach, refused...
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Michigan State turns to a freshman QB with six career attempts to win its...
Against Central Michigan on Sept. 8, Michigan State redshirt freshman quarterback Connor Cook completed 5-of-6 passes for 47 yards and an interception in a blowout win. Those were the only passes he...
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Unfortunate headline paints a graphic picture of West Virginia’s loss to...
West Virginia’s 38-14 loss to Syracuse in the Pinstripe Bowl on Saturday was humiliating, but the headline in the Weirton Daily Times made it about 20 times worse. “WVU loses bowel” The unfortunate...
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Music City Bowl preview: Vanderbilt vs. N.C. State
Music City Bowl Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. N.C. State (7-5) Dec. 31, 12 p.m. ET (ESPN) About the Commodores: With six straight wins, Vanderbilt played very well down the stretch. The only criticism of the...
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Sun Bowl preview: USC vs. Georgia Tech
Sun Bowl USC (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (6-7) Dec. 31, 2 p.m. ET (CBS) About the Trojans: USC has spent some of the time before the bowl cussing El Paso and showing up late to bowl functions, but it has...
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Liberty Bowl preview: Iowa State vs. Tulsa
Liberty Bowl Iowa State (6-6) vs. Tulsa (10-3) Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) About the Cyclones: Iowa State started the season 4-1, but lost five of its final seven to stumble into bowl eligibility....
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Chick-fil-A Bowl preview: LSU vs. Clemson
Chick-fil-A Bowl LSU (10-2) vs. Clemson (10-2) Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) About the (LSU) Tigers: LSU was once again among the nation’s best teams thanks to its stellar defense. The Tigers ranked...
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Florida State QB E.J. Manuel’s mother has been receiving treatments for...
No athlete wants to be known as someone who makes excuses, but as it turns out, Florida State quarterback E.J. Manuel had a pretty good one during the 2012 season. Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher...
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Orange Bowl pokes fun at West Virginia’s 14 points in the Pinstripe Bowl
A year ago, the Orange Bowl hosted one of the most lopsided BCS games in history as West Virginia shellacked Clemson 70-33. So, on Saturday, the Orange Bowl Twitter feed decided to check up on the...
View ArticleVandy coach James Franklin has no problem making out with his players on the...
Vanderbilt coach James Franklin is all about seizing the moment, no matter how ridiculous he might look. So it was no surprise during the Music City Bowl against N.C. State that Franklin had no...
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Caption Contest: What does Kansas State’s Carl Miles think of Oregon’s helmets?
We’ve all marveled at Oregon’s multitude of uniform combinations and helmets, but what do you think Kansas State’s Carl Miles said when he got a glimpse of the Ducks’ chrome dome? - - - H/T to...
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