Bob McCarty Writes

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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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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Wow, was I surprised to see this! I was watching ESPN at 11:25 p.m. Central after the Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Memphis Tigers to win the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and saw an ESPN Bottom Line message crawl from right to left across the bottom of my television:
“TULSA WORLD REPORTS OKLAHOMA STATE [...]

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