Happy New Year: Bring on the B1G Day of College Football

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, as it was a great New Year's Eve for Iowa and Creighton's basketball teams, with conference opening victories last night. Texas A&M pulled out the Chick-fil-A Bowl over Duke, with a late Pick 6 to overcome the deficit ...

Now, four B1G New Year's Games to open the year 2014!

Gator Bowl:
Georgia vs. Nebraska at 11:00 a.m. on ESPN2 (HD)
It has been an emotional season for coach Bo Pelini and the Cornhuskers, as two teams face off 2014, as they did 365 days ago!

Heart of Dallas Bowl:
North Texas vs. UNLV at 11:00 a.m. on ESPNU (HD)
The Mean Green coach Dan McCarney is an old Big Ten guy; but they face a MWC replacement, since no B1G teams were eligible for the Big Ten bowl slot.

Capital One Bowl:
South Carolina vs. Wisconsin at 12:00 p.m. on ABC (HD)
First year coach Gary Anderson has the Badgered back in Florida, after his predecessor Bret Bielema lead Wisconsin to three straight Rose Bowls!

Outback Bowl:
Iowa vs. LSU at 12:00 p.m. on ESPN (HD) - Our Pick: Iowa 27-21
The Hawkeyes are back in a bowl game coming off an awful 4-8 in 2012, while the Tigers are looking for another bowl win, after losing 3 of last 4!

Rose Bowl:
Michigan State vs. Stanford at 4:00 p.m. at ESPN (HD)
The 100th Granddaddy of them all will be a classic game of smash mouth, physical football with strong play at the line of scrimmage, as the Spartans return, after a 26 year drought vs. a Cardinal back in Pasadena for the New Year!

Fiesta Bowl:
Baylor vs. UCF at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN (HD)
Welcome to the BCS as the Big 12 champions are the Bears from Waco vs
the first AAC champs are the Knights from Orlando, after moving to the AAC from the C-USA ...

It is first day of 2014, so we want to wish everyone good health, joy, love, hope, prosperity, peace and happiness in the New Year!

We welcome the New Year in with three outstanding bowl game with Big Ten match ups!

The Granddaddy of them all kicks off January 1, 2010

and the New Year

at 3:30 p.m. Central Time on ABC/ESPN!

Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi

Ohio State (10-2, 7-1 Big Ten) vs. Oregon (10-2, 7-2 Pac 10)
Pasadena, Calif. in the Rose Bowl

A classic battle between the two champions: the Big Ten vs. the Pac 10!

Our New Year's Day snacks before the Grandaddy of all Bowl Games!

• at 10 a.m. Central Time, the Outback Bowl : Northwestern vs. Auburn from Tampa, Fla. at Raymond James Stadium, a match up of the Big Ten vs. SEC on ESPN, in a match up against two defensive minded football coach in Pat Fitzgerald and Gene Chizik.


• at Noon Central Time, Capital One Bowl: Penn State vs. LSU from Orlando, Fla. at the Florida Citrus Bowl, another match up of the Big Ten vs. SEC on ABC, as Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions face Les Miles and his Tigers ... which team will roar?


• at Noon Central Time, the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl: West Virginia vs. Florida State from Jacksonville, Fla. at Municipal Stadium, a match up of the Big East vs. ACC in coach Bobby Bowden's final collegiate game!
  

There is of course one more final Bowl Game to celebrate the New Year tonight!

Allstate Sugar Bowl

Cincinnati (12-0, 7-0 Big East) vs. Florida (12-1, 8-0 SEC East)
from New Orleans and the Louisiana Superdome
Jan. 1, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. Central Time
FOX/ESPN Radio

So far in the 2009-10 college bowl games, the 2009 game results:

• New Mexico: Wyoming 35, Fresno State 28 (2 OT)
• St. Petersburg pres. by Beef 'O' Brady's: Rutgers 45, UCF 24
• R+L Carriers New Orleans: Middle Tennessee 42, Southern Miss 32
• MAACO Las Vegas: BYU 44, Oregon State 20
• S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia: Utah 37, Cal 27
• Sheraton Hawaii: SMU 45, Nevada 10
• Little Caesars: Marshall 21, Ohio 17
• Meineke Car Care: Pitt 19, North Carolina 17
• Emerald: USC 24, Boston College 13
• Gaylord Hotels Music City: Clemson 21, Kentucky 13
• AdvoCare V100 Independence: Georgia 44, Texas A&M 20
• EagleBank: UCLA 30, Temple 21
• Champs Sports: Wisconsin 20, Miami 14
• Roady's Humanitarian: Idaho 43, Bowling Green 42
• Pacific Life Holiday: Nebraska 33, Arizona 0
• Bell Helicopter Armed Forces: Air Force 47, Houston 20
• Brut Sun: Oklahoma 31, Stanford 27
• Texas: Navy 35, Missouri 13
• Insight: Iowa State 14, Minnesota 13
• Chick-fil-A: Virginia Tech 37, Tennessee 14

The MWC and Big East teams are undefeated in bowl play thus far, better than all other conferences. The Big Ten has three games to pick up from the Golden Gophers fall on New Year's Eve. Congratulations to coach Paul Rhoades and the Iowa State Cyclones in finishing 7-6 and winning the Insight Bowl for the second time in school history.

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