COLLEGE FOOTBALL

the college games in december/january have been an awful lot of fun starting with the AUBURN "kick six" at jordan hare stadium when they beat ALABAMA and twisted coach nick saban's face as if he had bit into a lemon. auburn went on to crush MISSOURI in the SEC title game to get a chance at FLORIDA STATE tomorrow night. 

what happened to alabama? got their asses handed to them by OKLAHOMA in the SUGAR BOWL. somewhere, new york yankee haters got their off-season smile in.

did you get a chance to see the WISCONSIN BADGERS embarass themselves AGAIN in a bowl game? SOUTH CAROLINA toyed with the fat boys for a while before beating them by ten in the capitol one bowl.  the badgers have lost 6 of 7 bowl games including 3 consecutive rose bowls, in which they were favored in all three. to paraphrase the dean of students in 'animal house'....."being slow, fat & stupid is no way to play division one football."

and how about the FIESTA BOWL! a remake of the 'shootout at the o.k. corral' with the undisciplined BAYLOR BEARS, ranked #6, getting taken to the woodshed by the 17 point underdog UCF KNIGHTS. after committing SEVENTEEN PENALTIES, baylor couldn't play defense and the penalties derailed their offense when they needed it most, 52-42. another one dimensional team goes down.

UGLIEST BOWL GAME? easy. LSU/IOWA in the OUTBACK BOWL.  the tigers win it 21-14 but the local high school could generate more offense.  iowa scores on a pick 6 and a punt return.  not even 200 yards of total offense by the hawkeyes. only bright spot for LSU is that due to an injury to their graduating quarterback, freshman ANTHONY JENNINGS played the entire game and while he wasn't pretty, he got some valuable time heading into next season.

another put down game was the ORANGE BOWL where the mighty buckeyes of OHIO STATE completed their late season collapse by losing to CLEMSON 40-35. think coach URBAN MEYER has problems on defense?  consider this fact: in their last three games, they allowed ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN POINTS and lost tthe last two after escaping michigan 42-41. methinks buckeye fans need to shhhhhhush their mouths about playing in a title game.

AND THE BEST BOWL GAME TO DATE???? absolutely no doubt about it, the CHICKEN BOWL on new year's eve when JOHNNY FOOTBALL brought heavily favored TEXAS A & M back from a 4 touchdown deficit to beat DUKE, 52-48. 
JFF was 30/38 for 382 yards and 4 td passes and 73 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. incredible. i have no idea if he'll succeed in the NFL but he sure was fun to watch the last two years.

AUBURN will try to give the SEC their seventh bowl win this post season tomorrow night but i don't think so.  

FLORIDA STATE 38 AUBURN 27

or maybe not.  just hope it's a good one.