Bob McCarty Writes

Though many in the Southeast Conference expected it to go the other way, it was the Utah Utes who rolled to a 31-17 victory over Alabama Friday night in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
Jumping out to an early 21-0 lead and never looking back, the Mountain West champions ended their season undefeated, 13-0, and raising my [...]

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Though I only watched portions of the ATT Cotton Bowl today, the parts I watched showed an ugly effort by Coach Mike Leach’s #7 Texas Tech Red Raiders as they lost in Dallas to Houston Nutt’s #25 Ole Miss Rebels, 47-34.
Yes, I know; in my “crystal ball” post last week, I predicted the game would [...]

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The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.
Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams.  I will, however, thank [...]

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It appears I blew it when it came to predicting the outcomes of the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl played last night in San Diego.
In my second annual college football bowl game predictions post, I had picked #13 Oklahoma State to defeat #17 Oregon, 29-20.  Unfortunately, the Ducks had other plans for the Cowboys of my [...]

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Igor Panarin, a Russian academic whose prediction of the United States’ demise in 2010 made him the subject of a Wall Street Journal article today, may have unwittingly provided those calling for a college football playoff with a solution.

Put politics aside for the moment and take a look at Panarin’s 2010 map of the United [...]

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