Bob McCarty Writes

Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below:
Monday, Dec. [...]

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Borrowing from Yogi Berra, I must say something about the Big 12 Conference Championship set to take place Saturday between the #2 Oklahoma Sooners and #20 Missouri Tigers:  “This is like deja vu all over again.”

There are, of course, some obvious differences such as the fact that the 2008 title game is taking place at [...]

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ATTENTION: People who cast votes in the polls that count toward college football’s BCS rankings.  A new formula suggests the Oklahoma Sooners squad is the clear-cut winner in the Big 12 South.

Now that a three-way tie exists between the Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns and Texas Tech Red Raiders, I have a suggestion for resolving the [...]

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When head coach Mike Gundy leads his Oklahoma State Cowboys into their first home game Sept. 5 against Houston, he’ll lead them into Boone Pickens Stadium, a totally-refurbished football facility dubbed by members of the Fiesta Bowl Committee as “the finest football facilities anywhere in the country.”
It had better be the best. After all, [...]

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I must be honest and admit that the college football bowl games that matter begin tomorrow morning. That in mind, I offer my predictions below for the eight major bowl games* being played during the next seven days:
JANUARY 1
OUTBACK BOWL
Tampa, 11 a.m. ET, ESPN HD

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Tennessee Volunteers
Though Wisconsin has won seven of [...]

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