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John Hunt of The Oregonian went to FanSnap, “a search engine for tickets, compiling ticket information from 50-plus sites” to see how the bowl games ranked in terms of ticket price and demand. Turns out the Rose Bowl ranks No. 2 behind the BCS Championship Game. The Holiday Bowl is 10th, the Las Vegas Bowl…
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Bowl swag has to be the best indicator overall of a bowl’s prestige/lack of prestige. Take the Emerald Bowl, aka The Chan Gailey Invitational, which this year features USC, and just one moment please. We have to check something right quick here. USC lost to Washington and is in the Emerald Bowl. Your argument is…
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Coming off four consecutive Rose Bowl appearances, the Trojans essentially have known nothing else but a trip to Pasadena on New Years Day. Save for a few exceptions, that is. Soon all 108 players on the roster will participate in a postseason game other than the Rose Bowl when the Emerald Bowl kicks off on…
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BCS executive director Bill Hancock just released the following statement. “With all the serious matters facing our country, surely Congress has more important issues than spending taxpayer money to dictate how college football is played. The consensus among the presidents, athletics directors, coaches and faculty from the 120 major universities is that the current system…
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Does anyone think the Aggies can upset Texas tonight? USC needs Texas to go undefeated in that domino-effect scenario that needs to transpire for the Trojans to have any chance for a BCS bowl game.
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Here’s the latest odds to win the BCS Championship from Bodog.com. Texas 6/5 Florida 5/4 Alabama 2/1 Texas Christian 10/1 Cincinnati 40/1 Boise State 50/1
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It may come as a surprise to some readers to learn that the BCS has no centralized "brain" — far from the monolithic ruler of the sport that it sometimes seems, the Series is only a loose cabal of conference commissioners whose primary duties remain with their individual leagues, with one commissioner taking over the…
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Jon Gruden: “Jon Gruden has agreed to an exclusive multi-year agreement with the company. In addition to his MNF role alongside play-by-play commentator Mike Tirico and analyst Ron Jaworski, Gruden will appear on ESPN’s NFL Draft and Super Bowl week coverage, among other platforms, and he will call the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl in South…
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Here is the list of players who (right now) have the best chance of actually winning the Heisman: 1. Mark Ingram, Alabama–Ingram had another good game, rushing for 149 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries against Mississippi State. He’ll pad his stats some more against Chattanooga next Saturday, then will have a chance to clinch…
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USC fell from No. 11 to No. 22 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Trojans hadn’t been lower than 13th since October 2002. USC is 18th in the BCS standings, one spot behind Stanford and one ahead of Oregon State — not that that matters anymore. This week’s award for the ranking that makes…
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Random thoughts from the past weekend… —USC coach Pete Carroll–an avowed disciple of pro-style offenses and defenses–got a healthy dose of college-style medicine against Oregon. Is it just me, or is Carroll turning into the next Mack Brown/Lloyd Carr/Phil Fulmer? Meaning, like the programs headed by the aforementioned coaches, USC is laden with talent, but lacking…
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