This year’s BCS National Championship game pits two teams out of the same side of the same conference that have already played eachother this year – LSU and Alabama. LSU was college football’s only undefeated team, including winning the SEC Championship game, while Alabama lost just the one game (to LSU). No matter what you [...]
The SMU Mustangs and Pittsburgh Panthers square off in this year’s version of the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama. These two schools have met five times before, with an even 2-2-1 series. The last meeting came in the 1983 Cotton Bowl, with SMU recording a 7-3 win. Prior to that, the teams met four [...]
Two of the top non-conference winners in college football this year, Arkansas (2nd, SEC West) and Kansas State (2nd, Big 12), meet in the 2012 version of the Cotton Bowl. The meeting marks the first time in over 80 years that these two squads have played eachother. This is the 5th time all-time that these [...]
The Orange Bowl takes place in Miami and features the champions of the Big East Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference. Though the conference are geographically close to each other, the two league champs this year will be meeting for the first time in more than two decades as West Virginia takes on Clemson. These [...]
This season’s Chick-fil-A Bowl features Virginia, of the ACC, and last year’s national champions, Auburn, of the SEC. These two schools have played twice before, in 1997 and 1998, splitting the two meetings. Auburn won 28-17 at Virginia in 1997, but the Cavaliers returned the favor in 1998 with a 19-0 win at Auburn. The [...]
El Paso has been a venue for a bowl game for more than 75 years. Utah was a participant in one of the very first Sun Bowls, and now the Utes come back as a member of one of the BCS conferences for the first time. On December 31st, Utah will square off against Georgia [...]
The Pac-12 and Big 12 conferences battle in San Diego December 28 in the second of two San Diego bowl games. California ended the regular season on a high ntoe, while the Longhorns have struggled to cross the finish line, but both squads played quality football to qualify for bowl games. This will be an [...]
Washington D.C. is the venue of the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, being played in the shadow of the Pentagon. In this season’s version of the game, the U.S. Air Force Academy will be making its debut in this bowl contest as it represents the military against MAC power Toledo. These two teams have [...]
The tradition of college football on the islands continues December 24th with the 10th Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, featuring WAC runner-up Nevada taking on Conference USA champion Southern Miss. This will be the third all-time meeting between the Wolf Pack and the Golden Eagles. USM won the first meeting at home in 1997, 35-19, and posted [...]
The Las Vegas Bowl takes a bit of a gamble this year as it pits a top-10 team, Boise State, against a team that managed just a.500 record in the regular season, Arizona State. The two schools met just one time before ASU posted a 56-7 win over Boise in October 1996 in Tempe, when [...]