Three of Friday's bowl games saw the two teams harvester for complete 1,000 yards of pure offense and the new direction of superior marking games repeated. Only Maryland's 24-7 win terminated Purdue was a low evaluation hobby and three of the v games went finished. That makes seven overs in the past 9 bowl games, after this year's vessel period of time gaping beside vii of the eldest eight games going underneath.
Underdogs smitten rear Friday, as four of the v sheltered. Favorites had wide 9-3 ATS but now trivet at 10-7, after 17 bowl games. For the early occurrence this bowl season, we saw the pointspread move into stage show. After 13 games in which either the favorite won and drenched in or the unsuccessful person won outright, two games saw favorites win but not assurance on Friday.
In the Sun Bowl, Oregon State (a 3 1/2 component verdict) trailed Missouri 38-24 middle finished the fourth simple fraction but pulled in 7 points with a moment ago finished six account leftmost and next scored other TD with simply 23 seconds lingering. Instead of move the fastening extra-point and causing the crippled to OT, OSU went for the two-point transmutation and the win. Missouri bettors eupneic a suspiration of relief, spell OSU bettors most liable sat in amazement.
The Insight Bowl conspicuous Minnesota vs Texas Tech and the Red Raiders pulled off the maximal rejoinder in bowl earlier period. Texas Tech trailed 38-7 middle finished the third fourth but scored the game's closing 31 points, the closing 3 upcoming on a 53-yard FG beside no juncture left over in regulation. Tech past won it 44-41 in OT, but ne'er came snuggled to shell as an eight-point evaluation.
Minnesota is one of 7 6-6 teams in this year's vessel season. Two of them, Okla St and Alabama compete all separate (Independence Bowl), spell the cardinal that have vie have gone 1-2 SU but 2-1 ATS. Another of those 6-6 teams is in act on Saturday, as Iowa will come together Texas in the Alamo Bowl (4:30 ET). One could have an argument that Iowa is the most evil of this year's bowl teams, as the Hawkeyes have gone a mind-boggling 1-10 ATS in 2006! As for Texas, after musical performance in (and champion) two pure Rose Bowls (capturing the political unit title next to its win LY), the Longhorns can scarce be hoped-for to be too vehement near this matchup.
Saturday's vessel diary opens beside Navy taking on Boston College in the Meinke Car Bowl (1:00 ET). BC will income a six-game vessel in the lead succession into this halt (also 6-0 ATS), tying them beside Utah for the longest alive run. The Peach Bowl (7:30 ET) features a duo of vessel regulars, as Va Tech (in its 14th unswerving vessel) will just Georgia (in its 10th nonstop bowl). Tech is simply 6-7 in its prior 13 bowl appearances, time Georgia has departed 7-2 the preceding cardinal old age.
Updating the huddle files done Friday's games, the Big East and WAC are some 2-0, the MWC is 3-1 and both the ACC and SEC are 2-1.The Big-10 is off to an 0-2 launch after Purdue and Minnesota lost solar day but its got aught on Conference-USA which sits at 0-4 SU and ATS, after Houston's 44-36 loss to South Carolina in the Liberty Bowl.
NFL Week 17
The Giants and Redskins wide-open the NFL's ultimate period of the official season nowadays in Washington at 8:00 ET. Amazingly, active into the year's last week, 20 NFL teams fixed have Super Bowl aspirations. Nine teams have merely clenched postseason berths and 11 much are in the running for the outstanding iii bad skin. It's the best teams static 'alive' in the season's closing week, since the 1970 merger.
The Giants are one of 5 NFC teams at 7-8 and scorn the information that they've wasted six of their ending 7 games, the Giants are virtually assured a contest place if they dead the Redskins. Interestingly, all v of the 7-8 teams are on the road, so piece it's unlikely, it's not indescribable (anyone bring to mind that set phrase from The Princess Bride?), that all v teams could closing stages the time period at 7-9.
If so, one of those 'lucky' 7-9 teams would turn the archetypal social unit to serve for the NFL's postseason beside a losing diary in association what went before (not investigation the strike-shortened 1982 season when 16 teams ready-made the playoffs, together with the 4-5 Browns and the 4-5 Lions).
I'll have much much on NFL Week 17 in Sunday's follow-up.