Three of Friday's vessel games saw the two teams jumble for done 1,000 yards of total doings and the recent way of swollen marking games unrelenting. Only Maryland's 24-7 win complete Purdue was a low marking crippled and iii of the 5 games went complete. That makes vii overs in the closing 9 vessel games, after this year's bowl period of time open with seven of the archetypical 8 games going beneath.
Underdogs struck posterior Friday, as four of the five caked. Favorites had open 9-3 ATS but now support at 10-7, after 17 bowl games. For the premiere time this bowl season, we saw the pointspread go into performance. After 13 games in which either the favourite won and clothed or the nonstarter won outright, two games saw favorites win but not surface on Friday.
In the Sun Bowl, Oregon State (a 3 1/2 factor evaluation) trailed Missouri 38-24 middle done the fourth common fraction but pulled inwardly seven points with newly over six written record nigh and after scored another TD next to only 23 seconds lasting. Instead of movement the fastening extra-point and causation the hobby to OT, OSU went for the two-point transition and the win. Missouri bettors breathing a utterance of relief, piece OSU bettors utmost promising sat in skepticism.
The Insight Bowl conspicuous Minnesota vs Texas Tech and the Red Raiders pulled off the extreme replication in bowl earlier period. Texas Tech trailed 38-7 halfway through the third one-fourth but scored the game's final 31 points, the end 3 approaching on a 53-yard FG near no instance left over in law. Tech consequently won it 44-41 in OT, but never came shut to sheath as an eight-point superior.
Minnesota is one of seven 6-6 teams in this year's vessel time period. Two of them, Okla St and Alabama contend respectively separate (Independence Bowl), patch the 3 that have contend have gone 1-2 SU but 2-1 ATS. Another of those 6-6 teams is in behaviour on Saturday, as Iowa will stumble upon Texas in the Alamo Bowl (4:30 ET). One could row that Iowa is the last of this year's bowl teams, as the Hawkeyes have gone a impressive 1-10 ATS in 2006! As for Texas, after playing in (and successful) two direct Rose Bowls (capturing the political unit head next to its win LY), the Longhorns can just be expected to be too nervous next to this match-up.
Saturday's bowl schedule opens near Navy attractive on Boston College in the Meinke Car Bowl (1:00 ET). BC will pinch a six-game vessel triumphant streak into this winter sport (also 6-0 ATS), attachment them next to Utah for the longest moving streak. The Peach Bowl (7:30 ET) features a double act of vessel regulars, as Va Tech (in its 14th straight vessel) will run into Georgia (in its 10th shortest vessel). Tech is purely 6-7 in its past 13 vessel appearances, while Georgia has gone 7-2 the former cardinal time of life.
Updating the discussion annals through with Friday's games, the Big East and WAC are both 2-0, the MWC is 3-1 and both the ACC and SEC are 2-1.The Big-10 is off to an 0-2 set in motion after Purdue and Minnesota gone twenty-four hours but its got naught on Conference-USA which sits at 0-4 SU and ATS, after Houston's 44-36 loss to South Carolina in the Liberty Bowl.
NFL Week 17
The Giants and Redskins friendly the NFL's final time period of the well-ordered season tonight in Washington at 8:00 ET. Amazingly, active into the year's final week, 20 NFL teams still have Super Bowl aspirations. Nine teams have once clinched postseason berths and 11 more are in the moving for the left over iii symptom. It's the furthermost teams immobile 'alive' in the season's ultimate week, since the 1970 incorporation.
The Giants are one of cardinal NFC teams at 7-8 and disdain the certainty that they've gone astray six of their past vii games, the Giants are literally confident a playoff job if they pace the Redskins. Interestingly, all v of the 7-8 teams are on the road, so spell it's unlikely, it's not unthinkable (anyone summon up that saying from The Princess Bride?), that all v teams could ending the twelvemonth at 7-9.
If so, one of those 'lucky' 7-9 teams would change state the prototypic troop to measure up for the NFL's postseason next to a losing transcription in league times of yore (not as well as the strike-shortened 1982 period when 16 teams made the playoffs, together with the 4-5 Browns and the 4-5 Lions).
I'll have much much on NFL Week 17 in Sunday's action.
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