New Years Bowl Notes

Sugar Bowl: the Buckeyes came to play and refused to quit. Both teams made costly turnovers. How many teams have three elite quarterbacks? Not Bama, FSU, or Georgia. But Ohio State sure does. But how did the third string QB get a helmet full of merit stickers after playing in just one game?

Bama was running the ball well and pulled to 34-28, then went back to passing and had to punt. Great Bama punter...at least four punts inside the ten. The Bama D holds and a terrible punt and bounce give the Tide the ball on the 23. Does Bama run? No, and the Sims interception kills a golden opportunity. Sims started the season slowly but shined down the stretch. He picked a bad time to have a bad game. Friday morning the guys on 680 were saying the same thing.

An early sack looked like a safety to more than just me. At midnight there's still ten minutes remaining. No reason for that. The great Alabama pass rush narrowly misses another safety. Urban Meyer disliked the non-roughing call so much that he threw his headset.

Bama was winning the field position battle but running out of chances. OSU QB Jones was taking a beating. Bama DB playing hurt may have had an effect on the 85 yard TD run with 3:24 remaining, pretty much icing the game for Ohio State.

Bama's deep completion sets up a Sims to Cooper TD pass with 1:58 remaining. Great onside kick but an even greater recovery. Inexplicably OSU throws a deep incompletion and is only able to run 25 seconds off the clock. Baja gets the ball back and threatens, but comes up short.

Rose Bowl: Five FSU turnovers and counting. The toughest opposition the Noles faced during their undefeated run by far. Total Duck domination. FSU scored at the end of the first half and on their first possession of the third quarter. They had momentum but then it all fell apart. Georgia Tech would've played a more competitive game.

Rose Bowl records for most points in the game and most points in a half (41). Oregon will be a formidable foe in the national championship game. Wonder what uniforms they'll wear.

Cotton Bowl: I missed the end (nap) but was so glad to hear that the Spartans broke Baylor's hearts. Great clip of the kicker getting his block knocked off (above).

Citrus Bowl: great double hurtling TD run by the white Golden Gopher tight end (above). Great hit given by Missouri QB Maty Mauk (below).

Outback Bowl: a different Wisconsin team than who played Ohio State. Different coach for sure. Or the Buckeyes are tons better than Auburn.

Auburn can't stop Melvin Gordon, but the Badgers can't stop Auburn, who retake the lead with three minutes to go. Did the Tigers score too early? Without a good QB, Wisconsin had to run the ball.

Easy to call a late hit out of bounds but never for the ballcarrier continuing to run after stepping out of bounds just asking a defender to hit him.

Good call by usually bad announcer Matt Millen that the Badger QB made a terrible pass that resulted in a second Auburn interception. Later after incorrectly saying Wisconsin would run on a crucial fourth down play, Millen had to praise the QB for his first down completion.

In OT Gordon takes himself out on third & goal and Wisconsin has to settle for a field goal. Questionable play calling on the Auburn possession loses yardage, and the Auburn kicker just misses a 45 harder - his second straight miss.

NEW YEARS EVE: Went to bed just after midnight. Cleaned upstairs until noon Thursday AM. No plans except to watch football. Maybe get a haircut. Work on eBay. W and MC made pretzel bread.

MC is in a wedding this weekend so Will has that to do. Anna will go to Passion with Emily and Ceil. M is up in Forsyth County with a friend making music. Drew Kelly has been pulling my chain about posting more UGA stuff than GT.