This is a cross-post of an article I wrote for FierceAndNerdy.com, for whom I will be writing a periodic blogumn. It’s actually an expansion and elaboration of my comments on the title square-off put forth in Nate’s Most Intriguing Bowl Matchups, worth revisiting here on game day.
The first pseudo major sports championship of the year [...]

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego, CA – December 23)
#11 TCU Horned Frogs (10-2) vs. #9 Boise State Broncos (12-0)
In my mind, this is easily the most intriguing matchup of the bowl season outside the national championship game itself. Don’t let those two losses for a non-BCS school fool you; TCU has [...]

AT&T Cotton Bowl (Dallas, TX – January 2)

#8 Texas Tech Red Raiders (11-1) vs. #20 Mississippi Rebels (8-4)
Like their Big 12 brethren Oklahoma and Texas, Mike Leach and his Texas Tech squad ended the season with only a single loss. Unfortunately for the Red Raiders, that loss came at the hands of Oklahoma and [...]

If a college football coach votes in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did he really vote?
After the 2004 Texas-California BCS debacle (not to be confused with the various BCS travesties from other years), the powers-at-be determined that the final vote in the USA Today / Coaches Poll should be made [...]

Who else is almost as interested in watching the Toilet Bowl this weekend (featuring 0-10 Washington at 1-10 Washington State) as they are in the #2 Texas Tech – #5 Oklahoma match-up? Well, maybe not almost, but there definitely is a certain morbid curiosity in such a game, even if it is akin to [...]