peach-bowl Stories - From The Rumble Seat
Adding Conference Basketball Games To ACC Bowl Week?
Brian: Carolina March has an interesting proposal to improve on this year's lackluster ACC bowl games and weak non-conference hoops games over the Winter Break. Why not schedule the start of ACC basketball conference play to coincide with the conference's bowl schedule? "The ACC has affiliations...
Prop Bets For The Bowl Game Junkie
Looking between the numbers and making sense of the empty space between them is a fools paradise. And the prop bet is the fuel that drives the machine. Based off this week's pick 'em games. Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas – Texas A&M v. Northwestern: Six and six bowling at it's finest...
Boston College Moments Of The Year And The Big Finish
Brian: It's New Years Eve. I'm not exactly sure where this year went, but with 2011 right around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to look back at the best Boston College sports moments of the year. We didn't have too, too much to cheer about on the gridiron. I guess a five-game losing...
Boston College's Bowl Destination Down To Two?
According to SI's Stewart Mandel, the Peach Bowl has announced that it will select the ACC Championship Game runner up. No surprise there. And not that BC was going to the Peach Bowl or anything (actually impossible this year given the ACC's one-loss rule), but that does free up the Champs Sports...
Georgia Bulldogs Likely Independence Bowl-Bound; Outback Bowl Remains the Class Clown of SEC Postseason Tie-Ins
Earlier today, I was feeling pretty good about the Georgia Bulldogs' prospects for renewing their rivalry with the Clemson Tigers in the Georgia Dome, but, as the ensuing comment thread attests, the Tennessee Volunteers are likely to receive the Chick-fil-A Bowl bid because of the line of toppling...
Why the SEC Should Scrap the Outback to Get the Gator Back On Board
It was first brought to my attention by Dr. Saturday, and later noted at Team Speed Kills, that the Gator Bowl may become one of the SEC’s automatic postseason tie-ins. Significant logistical hurdles stand in the way of this becoming a reality, most notably the Capital One Bowl’s exclusive right...
December 30, 1990: Auburn 27, Indiana 23.
For the second time in four years, the Hoosiers lost a heartbreaker in Atlanta. As against Tennessee in 1987, IU overcame a deficit to take a fourth quarter lead, only to lose in dramatic fashion. Here's the box score (click for full size):In 1990, Auburn's Stan White led a 72 yard drive and scored...
January 2, 1988: Tennessee 27, Indiana 22.
1987 was the Hoosiers' finest season in the 40 years since 1967. IU whipped Ohio State 31-10 in Columbus and beat Michigan in Bloomington. The Hoosiers lost to Michigan State in November in a game that decided the Big Ten championship and headed to Atlanta to play Tennnessee, a 9-2-1 team with only...
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