Though Northwestern narrowly missed a shot at a Big Ten title this season in a down year for the conference, the pressure will be grave for the Wildcats to win their first bowl game since 1949. Remarkably, Northwestern has lost nine consecutive bowl games since winning the ’49 Rose Bowl.
After the first half of the season Vanderbilt looked far from a bowl team sitting at 4-2, but they ended the season red-hot winning their last 6 games of the season even though they were 0-3 facing ranked teams this season.
A curious matchup as both of these teams went from sleepers to disappointments pretty quickly. Both are looking to finish the year on a positive note to set the tone for next season.
With the exception of boasting one of the country’s most electric players in WR Marqise Lee, it has been a bitterly disappointing season in Los Angeles. The vaunted Trojans limped along to a five-loss campaign, punctuated by losses to Arizona and cross-town rival UCLA.
In March 2008 the Houston Rockets were the NBA’s Blue Plate Special. The had won 22 games, the second-longest streak in NBA history, and there was talk that Tracy McGrady and the guys would challenge the league record of 33 set decades earlier by the Chamberlain/West Los Angeles Lakers.
Good news/bad news for the Mavericks, and to be honest there isn’t much good news.
Dirk Nowitzki is back from injury, a bit earlier than expected, and he seemed to be OK in playing 20 minutes against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday.
Owls vs Falcons College Football Spread/Handicapping
Typical of early bowl matchups there is not much to get excited for in this one. I am always a big fan of the service academies as I love seeing those triple option attacks pound against opponents, there might not be much else to entertain though.
Air Force has the nation’s 2nd ranked rushing offense, but their defense has had their issues this season, especially at the end of the season when they lost 3 of their last 4 games.
Hardly riveting action in this one. Texas Tech has already seen their coach move on to “greener” pastures and Minnesota barely qualified to play in a bowl game. Maybe the Gophers have an advantage because they are not going through a transition…maybe.
One week to go in the 2012 Regular Season and what a year it has been! There have been some great surprises, some colossal letdowns and some incredible storylines all season – Week 16 was no different! The cream is definitely rising to the top as shown in this week’s Rankings.
There will be no Super Bowl winner this year.
Because no teams appear capable of winning it.
The Broncos are at 3/1 in the latest odds offered by Bovada, but Denver has already lost (big) to the Patriots, who in their last two games were beaten at home and should have lost on the road to the worst team in the AFC (Jacksonville).
Wonder what Andrea Bargnani has to say for himself now.
A few weeks back, you recall, the Raptors’ 7-footer and former overall No. 1 draft choice raised more than a few eyebrows by putting his own team dead last on his private NBA power ranking chart.
The Thunder are off to a terrific start to the season. They have taken great advantage of a schedule that included an unbalanced amount of home game to burst out of the gate and currently have the league’s best record.
The Military Bowl isn’t the most highly publicized game of the college football bowl season, but this game between the San Jose State Spartans and the Bowling Green Falcons is a matchup between two drastically improved teams. Just two years ago, these two had three combined wins, and last year both finished 5-7.
The Nuggets just can’t seem to get any momentum going this season. They have played a disproportionately high number of games on the road so far (19 of 28) making their 17-11 ATS record all the more impressive.
Although West Virginia jumped ship to the Big 12 this season, a vintage Big East match-up takes place in the (new) House that Ruth Built after Christmas this bowl season with the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
