PHOTO: USA Today Sports Cincinnati Bearcats (9-3) vs North Carolina Tar Heels (6-6) Saturday, Dec 28th @ 3:20 PM (ESPN) Line: UNC by 2.5 How Cincy got here: Under first year head coach Tommy Tuberville, the Bearcats had a very good season. They started 3-2 with losses at Illinois and USF but rebounded to win […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports BYU Cougars (8-4) vs Washington Huskies (8-4) Friday Dec 27th @ 9:30 PM (ESPN) Line: Huskies by 3 How BYU got here: BYU had a strange start to their season as they beat #15 Texas but lost to Virginia and Utah. Then they rolled off five straight wins, all of which […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Maryland Terrapins (7-5) vs Marshall Thundering Herd (9-4) Friday, Dec 27th @ 2:30 pm (ESPN) Line: Marshall by 2.5 How Marshall got here: The Thundering Herd started out 4-3 with their 3 losses coming by an average of 4.3 ppg. With the exception of the two-point loss at Middle Tennessee, the […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports NIU Huskies (12-1) vs Utah State Aggies (8-5) Thursday, Dec 26th @ 9:30 pm (ESPN) Line: NIU by 1.5 How NIU got here: Northern Illinois and Jordan Lynch rolled to a 12-0 regular season record and looked poised to make their second straight BCS bowl. Not so fast my friend, they […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Bowling Green Falcons (10-3) vs Pittsburgh Panthers (6-6) Thursday, Dec 26th @ 6 pm (ESPN) Line: Bowling Green by 4.5 How Bowling Green got here: Bowling Green started the season at 5-3 with losses to Indiana, Mississippi State and Toledo. They won the next four games by a combined score of […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The bowl season kicked off with a bang on Saturday as Washington State blew a big lead against Colorado State in the New Mexico Bowl. The way this game started, we probably should have expected a crazy finish. In the opening minutes we saw an interception, a fumble, a touchdown pass […]

Bowl season is upon us and it all kicks off today at 2 pm on the four-letter network in New Mexico. The early bowl games might not interest everybody but there are some intriguing storylines such as an in-state battle, Boise State starting life without Chris Petersen, how USC will play under their third head […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Boise State Broncos (8-4) vs Oregon State Beavers (6-6) Tuesday, Dec 24th @ 8 PM EST (ESPN) Line: Beavers by 3 How Boise State got here: The Broncos "struggled" to an 8-4 record this season. The big two losses were a season opening blowout to Washington and an October game at […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports East Carolina Pirates (9-3) vs Ohio Bobcats (7-5) Monday, Dec 23rd @ 2 pm (ESPN) Line: East Carolina by 13.5 How East Carolina got here: The Pirates had a strong season in which they went 2-1 against ACC opponents. They beat UNC (55-31) and NC State (42-28) and barely lost to […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The Sugar Bowl used to be the goal of every SEC team. Now, with the BCS system in place, the Sugar Bowl can be seen as a bit of a letdown for teams that had National Championship aspirations. The last time the Alabama Crimson Tide played in this bowl, they came […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Tulane Green Wave (7-5) vs Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns (8-4) Saturday, Dec 21st @ 9 PM EST Line: Tulane by 2.5 How Louisiana got here: When head coach Mark Hudspeth took over the Cajuns, they had not won more than six games since the 1993 season. Hudspeth has won at least 8 […]