December 13, 2024 • 9 mins
Don't sleep during Bowl Season! Craig and Cam outline the must-watch College Football Bowl Games this postseason!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bill Connley, who covers college football really well for ESPN,
wrote a story today and the headline is storylines to
watch for every twenty twenty four college football bowl game.
You think about that for a moment, he said, and
he starts it all by talking about what it was
like fifty years ago. Fifty years ago, there were eleven
(00:22):
bowl games in college football major college football. He had
a relatively minor affairs, the Liberty Bowl, which was a
Maryland against Tennessee. I remember watching that Tangerine Bowl, Miami
of Ohio against Georgia, Blue Bonnet Bowl, ns he State
against Houston Sun Bowl, Mississippi State against North Carolina, Peach Bowl,
(00:42):
Vanderbilt against Texas Tech. I think that wound up in
a six to sixth tie. And the Fiesta Bowl BYU
and Oklahoma State. He said then he had the major stuff.
On De Semmer thirtieth, number six Auburn end played and
beat number eleven Texas, and the Gator Bowl. I think
that was the last college football game Keith Moreland played
in because he played two seasons of college football, and
(01:07):
Auburn beat Texas. And I don't know if it was
the opening kickoff or a kickoff after a Texas field goal,
but they ran one of the starburst kickoff returns and
the Longhorns.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Didn't make the tackle. It was return for a touchdown.
Auburn went on and won that game. It says.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
On December thirty first number eight Nebraska, last number eighteen
Florida and the Sugar Bowl, and in a New Year's
Day tripleheader, number seven Penn State, wallet number twelve Baylor.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Baylor had the miracle on Nebrassas that year, seventy four
beating Texas, got to the Cotton Bowl, and then Penn
State beat him forty one to twenty. Number five USC
up set number three Ohio State and the Rose Bowl.
Number nine Notre Dame up set number two Alabama in
a bowl for the second straight year, this time in
the Orange Bowl, and then he.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Says, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Number one Oklahoma ban from the postseason almost feels like
even more of an ancient relic than having only eleven bowls.
Won the national title with Ease. They were on probation,
but they were the ap national champion. USC finished number
two in the Ape Pole. They were crowned the national
champion in the UPI poll number four, Michigan out of
(02:10):
the postseason because of the Big Ten's only one team
bowl policy, moved up to number three with Ohio State's loss. Yeah,
back then the Big Ten only one team went. That
was the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That was it. That's how they did.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He said, bowlseason has shall we say, evolved in the
half century since. To those scoffing and saying the older
days were olden days were definitely better, you're wrong. Eighty
two of the FBS is one hundred and thirty four
teams plus a pair of smoking hot FCSHBCU teams will
play at least one postseason game in the coming weeks.
(02:45):
Four playoff teams will play in a pair of major bowls.
Texas could be one of those, and two of them
will meet in Atlanta for a national title game.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That isn't a ball.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So he goes on and he has these different categories,
and he said some of them fit more than one category,
said just go with it. For example, chasing the ring
and the record is the quarterfinal. He expects that Oregon
against either Ohio State or Tennessee another category, a hell
of a time to potentially start a new quarterback. The
quarterfoun of Georgia against the Notre Dame Indiana winner justifying
(03:18):
the bye, Boise State against the Penn State SMU winner
in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Eve, and also
Arizona State against the Texas Clemson winner on January first,
So talking about a chance to justify that bye, and
then he goes my favorite five favorite non playoff bowls.
(03:40):
You have the Cricket Celebration Bowl that's tomorrow, Jackson State,
South Carolina State, and they're pretty exciting offenses and defenses.
The Staff DNA Cure Bowl Ohio against Jacksonville State, he said. Granted,
that would have been more excited about this one had
Ohio's Tim Alban and Jacksonville State's Rich Rodriguez not already
taking different jobs. But this game does feature two group
(04:02):
of five teams to finish the regular season in torrid form.
Both finished really hot and yeah, Alburn's a new coach
at Charlotte and Rich rod as the new coach returning
to West Virginia. Also Birmingham Bull, Georgia Tech Vanderbilt. I
love it when two of the season's main characters get paired.
Georgia Tech began Florida State's twenty twenty four disintegration with
the last minute went in Dublin and went on to
(04:24):
upset Miami, playing a major role in the Hurricanes's elimination
from CFP contention, and nearly upset Georgia, which would have
been the same eventually falling in eight overtimes. It was
just about the most memorable way possible to go seven
and five. Vanderbilt meanwhile, beat Alabama for the first time
in forty years and nearly upset Texas as well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's not true. People saw the final score Dottals in
the euro outset.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Vanderbilt scored with under a minute ago and to pull
to within three and then couldn't recover it on sidekick,
so to say, nearly upset of a bit of a stretch.
But anyway, talks about them both both being for an
entertaining bowl. Go Bowling Military Bowl, East Carolina and NC State. Yeah,
it's one of his favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh Bowling Military Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, so this is funny. On January first, nineteen ninety two,
in front of fifty nine, three hundred and twenty two
in Atlantis Fulton County Stadium, quarterback Jeff Blake and East
Carolina came back from thirty four to seventeen in the
final ten minutes to knock off NC State thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Thirty four.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Pirate fans stormed the field afterwards, and according the newspaper reports,
some ECU fans even dug up part of the e
in Pirates lettering one of the end zones. But compared
with what some officials feared might happen right as ec
fans had torn up whatever they could find following an
upset of NC State and Raleigh in eighty seven, which
had caused NC State to end the series between the schools,
(05:45):
this was tame, so it said. This is a long
way of saying that playing n C State means a
lot to ECU fans, and the Pirates usually play their
best when their line up against the wolf Pack.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So we'll see. That's why he's got that there. And then.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The fifth of his five Favorita bowls. This is the
Kinders Texas Bowl. Baylor LSU thinks it'll be really good.
Uh So he's got those down there, oh so close.
Miami and Ohio and Iowa State, and the Pop Tarts
Bowl Alabama and Michigan, and the Relaoquest Bowl South Carolina,
Illinois and the Cheese at Citrus Bowl and Ole Miss
(06:18):
and Duke and the tax Slayer Gator Bowl.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So then he's got Finishing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Strong, the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl Florida Tulane, the
Myrtle Beach Bowl, Utsa and Coastal Carolina, the Auto Z
owned Liberty Bowl, Texas Tech Arkansas, the Direct TV Holiday
Bowls Syracuse, Washington State, Bad Boy Moor's Pinstripe Bowl, Boston College, Nebraska,
Valero Alamo Bowl, Colorada BYU and the Tony the Tiger
Sun Bowl Louisville and Washington. And then he's got a
(06:44):
category called Embrace the Silliness the Art of La. Here's
the official name cam the Art of Sport LA Bowl
hosted by Gronk. That's the name of it is still
in all right, Artists Sport LA Bowl hosted by Gronk. Okay,
Like he said, embrace the silliness Famous Sidaho Potato Bowl,
(07:06):
Pop Tarts bowl Snoop dogg Arizona Bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, he said, what was the most memorable moment of
last year's bowl season The murder of the pastry.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
When we're eating the pop tart there.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So, and then it's who starts the twenty twenty five
season one to zero A and m or USC in
the Las Vegas Bowl. Can a prolific quarterback go out
with a W Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl Memphis and West Virginia,
Missouri and Iowa in the trans Perfect Music City Bowl
or the sixty eight Ventures Bowl Bowling Green against Arkansas State.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And then there's the category congratulations.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You get to play a Service Academy Lackey Martin Armed
Forces Ball Oklahoma and Navy playing in Fort Worth and
the Radiance Technologies Independence Balls Marshall against Army on December
twenty eighth, Redemption Time Booca ratone Ball James Madison in
Western Kentucky, the Game Above Shorts Bowl Toledo and Pitt
Day after games of Game Above Sports Bowl, the Rate
(08:06):
Bowl Case State against Rutgers, that is leta New Mexico Bowl,
Louisiana against TCU, and the Bahamas Bowl Liberty against Buffalo.
Then he's got the category seven and six sounds so
much better than six and seven. That's the I S
four Salute to Veterans Bowl. That's tomorrow South Alabama and
Western Michigan. The Myrtle Beach Bowl UTSA and Coastal Carolina,
the Hawaii Bowl South Florida and San Jesse State, the
(08:30):
SERB Pro First Responder Bowl North Texas against Texas State
on January third, the Wassabi Fenway Bowl North Carolina and Yukon.
And finally, the last category would be First Bowl Interim
Coach RNL Carriers New.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Orleans Bowl Sam Houston against Georgia Southern.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So he gives you a reason to watch, and he's
got paragraphs on why these games are worth watching. So
are you basically are you okay with proliferation of bowls?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, I mean, of course it's diluted a little bit
with the playoff, Craik. It just depends on who's playing
these games, you know, Like I'm ecstatic that we get
to see Daego Pavia and Hayden's key.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think they both are playing in their bowl game. Yeah,
it's awesome, you know, but.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Then you have other games where you know, the quarterbacks
are sitting out. Kudos to Colorado that Shador and Travis
and Shiloh were all playing in that game, because you
figure Travis Hunter probably gonna be the first pick Chador
first rounder. Yeah, there's no reason for them to play
in their bowl game, but no, they want to play.
I think that's awesome. I wish there was more players
like that. But at the same time, I understand why
(09:31):
as an athlete, you're trying to protect yourself from an
injury like Gelan Smith. After him and over Dame, we
had this postseason injury and missed the entire season and
had to you know, work his way back into football.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, We'll be back to wrap up our number
two in sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
Bill Connley, who covers college football really well for ESPN,
wrote a story today and the headline is storylines to
watch for every twenty twenty four college football bowl game.
You think about that for a moment, he said, and
he starts it all by talking about what it was
like fifty years ago. Fifty years ago, there were eleven
(00:22):
bowl games in college football major college football. He had
a relatively minor affairs, the Liberty Bowl, which was a
Maryland against Tennessee. I remember watching that Tangerine Bowl, Miami
of Ohio against Georgia, Blue Bonnet Bowl, ns he State
against Houston Sun Bowl, Mississippi State against North Carolina, Peach Bowl,
(00:42):
Vanderbilt against Texas Tech. I think that wound up in
a six to sixth tie. And the Fiesta Bowl BYU
and Oklahoma State. He said then he had the major stuff.
On De Semmer thirtieth, number six Auburn end played and
beat number eleven Texas, and the Gator Bowl. I think
that was the last college football game Keith Moreland played
in because he played two seasons of college football, and
(01:07):
Auburn beat Texas. And I don't know if it was
the opening kickoff or a kickoff after a Texas field goal,
but they ran one of the starburst kickoff returns and
the Longhorns.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Didn't make the tackle. It was return for a touchdown.
Auburn went on and won that game. It says.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
On December thirty first number eight Nebraska, last number eighteen
Florida and the Sugar Bowl, and in a New Year's
Day tripleheader, number seven Penn State, wallet number twelve Baylor.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Baylor had the miracle on Nebrassas that year, seventy four
beating Texas, got to the Cotton Bowl, and then Penn
State beat him forty one to twenty. Number five USC
up set number three Ohio State and the Rose Bowl.
Number nine Notre Dame up set number two Alabama in
a bowl for the second straight year, this time in
the Orange Bowl, and then he.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Says, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Number one Oklahoma ban from the postseason almost feels like
even more of an ancient relic than having only eleven bowls.
Won the national title with Ease. They were on probation,
but they were the ap national champion. USC finished number
two in the Ape Pole. They were crowned the national
champion in the UPI poll number four, Michigan out of
(02:10):
the postseason because of the Big Ten's only one team
bowl policy, moved up to number three with Ohio State's loss. Yeah,
back then the Big Ten only one team went. That
was the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That was it. That's how they did.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He said, bowlseason has shall we say, evolved in the
half century since. To those scoffing and saying the older
days were olden days were definitely better, you're wrong. Eighty
two of the FBS is one hundred and thirty four
teams plus a pair of smoking hot FCSHBCU teams will
play at least one postseason game in the coming weeks.
(02:45):
Four playoff teams will play in a pair of major bowls.
Texas could be one of those, and two of them
will meet in Atlanta for a national title game.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That isn't a ball.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So he goes on and he has these different categories,
and he said some of them fit more than one category,
said just go with it. For example, chasing the ring
and the record is the quarterfinal. He expects that Oregon
against either Ohio State or Tennessee another category, a hell
of a time to potentially start a new quarterback. The
quarterfoun of Georgia against the Notre Dame Indiana winner justifying
(03:18):
the bye, Boise State against the Penn State SMU winner
in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Eve, and also
Arizona State against the Texas Clemson winner on January first,
So talking about a chance to justify that bye, and
then he goes my favorite five favorite non playoff bowls.
(03:40):
You have the Cricket Celebration Bowl that's tomorrow, Jackson State,
South Carolina State, and they're pretty exciting offenses and defenses.
The Staff DNA Cure Bowl Ohio against Jacksonville State, he said. Granted,
that would have been more excited about this one had
Ohio's Tim Alban and Jacksonville State's Rich Rodriguez not already
taking different jobs. But this game does feature two group
(04:02):
of five teams to finish the regular season in torrid form.
Both finished really hot and yeah, Alburn's a new coach
at Charlotte and Rich rod as the new coach returning
to West Virginia. Also Birmingham Bull, Georgia Tech Vanderbilt. I
love it when two of the season's main characters get paired.
Georgia Tech began Florida State's twenty twenty four disintegration with
the last minute went in Dublin and went on to
(04:24):
upset Miami, playing a major role in the Hurricanes's elimination
from CFP contention, and nearly upset Georgia, which would have
been the same eventually falling in eight overtimes. It was
just about the most memorable way possible to go seven
and five. Vanderbilt meanwhile, beat Alabama for the first time
in forty years and nearly upset Texas as well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
That's not true. People saw the final score Dottals in
the euro outset.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Vanderbilt scored with under a minute ago and to pull
to within three and then couldn't recover it on sidekick,
so to say, nearly upset of a bit of a stretch.
But anyway, talks about them both both being for an
entertaining bowl. Go Bowling Military Bowl, East Carolina and NC State. Yeah,
it's one of his favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh Bowling Military Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, so this is funny. On January first, nineteen ninety two,
in front of fifty nine, three hundred and twenty two
in Atlantis Fulton County Stadium, quarterback Jeff Blake and East
Carolina came back from thirty four to seventeen in the
final ten minutes to knock off NC State thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Thirty four.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Pirate fans stormed the field afterwards, and according the newspaper reports,
some ECU fans even dug up part of the e
in Pirates lettering one of the end zones. But compared
with what some officials feared might happen right as ec
fans had torn up whatever they could find following an
upset of NC State and Raleigh in eighty seven, which
had caused NC State to end the series between the schools,
(05:45):
this was tame, so it said. This is a long
way of saying that playing n C State means a
lot to ECU fans, and the Pirates usually play their
best when their line up against the wolf Pack.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So we'll see. That's why he's got that there. And then.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The fifth of his five Favorita bowls. This is the
Kinders Texas Bowl. Baylor LSU thinks it'll be really good.
Uh So he's got those down there, oh so close.
Miami and Ohio and Iowa State, and the Pop Tarts
Bowl Alabama and Michigan, and the Relaoquest Bowl South Carolina,
Illinois and the Cheese at Citrus Bowl and Ole Miss
(06:18):
and Duke and the tax Slayer Gator Bowl.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So then he's got Finishing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Strong, the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl Florida Tulane, the
Myrtle Beach Bowl, Utsa and Coastal Carolina, the Auto Z
owned Liberty Bowl, Texas Tech Arkansas, the Direct TV Holiday
Bowls Syracuse, Washington State, Bad Boy Moor's Pinstripe Bowl, Boston College, Nebraska,
Valero Alamo Bowl, Colorada BYU and the Tony the Tiger
Sun Bowl Louisville and Washington. And then he's got a
(06:44):
category called Embrace the Silliness the Art of La. Here's
the official name cam the Art of Sport LA Bowl
hosted by Gronk. That's the name of it is still
in all right, Artists Sport LA Bowl hosted by Gronk. Okay,
Like he said, embrace the silliness Famous Sidaho Potato Bowl,
(07:06):
Pop Tarts bowl Snoop dogg Arizona Bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, he said, what was the most memorable moment of
last year's bowl season The murder of the pastry.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
When we're eating the pop tart there.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So, and then it's who starts the twenty twenty five
season one to zero A and m or USC in
the Las Vegas Bowl. Can a prolific quarterback go out
with a W Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl Memphis and West Virginia,
Missouri and Iowa in the trans Perfect Music City Bowl
or the sixty eight Ventures Bowl Bowling Green against Arkansas State.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And then there's the category congratulations.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You get to play a Service Academy Lackey Martin Armed
Forces Ball Oklahoma and Navy playing in Fort Worth and
the Radiance Technologies Independence Balls Marshall against Army on December
twenty eighth, Redemption Time Booca ratone Ball James Madison in
Western Kentucky, the Game Above Shorts Bowl Toledo and Pitt
Day after games of Game Above Sports Bowl, the Rate
(08:06):
Bowl Case State against Rutgers, that is leta New Mexico Bowl,
Louisiana against TCU, and the Bahamas Bowl Liberty against Buffalo.
Then he's got the category seven and six sounds so
much better than six and seven. That's the I S
four Salute to Veterans Bowl. That's tomorrow South Alabama and
Western Michigan. The Myrtle Beach Bowl UTSA and Coastal Carolina,
the Hawaii Bowl South Florida and San Jesse State, the
(08:30):
SERB Pro First Responder Bowl North Texas against Texas State
on January third, the Wassabi Fenway Bowl North Carolina and Yukon.
And finally, the last category would be First Bowl Interim
Coach RNL Carriers New.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Orleans Bowl Sam Houston against Georgia Southern.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So he gives you a reason to watch, and he's
got paragraphs on why these games are worth watching. So
are you basically are you okay with proliferation of bowls?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, I mean, of course it's diluted a little bit
with the playoff, Craik. It just depends on who's playing
these games, you know, Like I'm ecstatic that we get
to see Daego Pavia and Hayden's key.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think they both are playing in their bowl game. Yeah,
it's awesome, you know, but.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Then you have other games where you know, the quarterbacks
are sitting out. Kudos to Colorado that Shador and Travis
and Shiloh were all playing in that game, because you
figure Travis Hunter probably gonna be the first pick Chador
first rounder. Yeah, there's no reason for them to play
in their bowl game, but no, they want to play.
I think that's awesome. I wish there was more players
like that. But at the same time, I understand why
(09:31):
as an athlete, you're trying to protect yourself from an
injury like Gelan Smith. After him and over Dame, we
had this postseason injury and missed the entire season and
had to you know, work his way back into football.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
All right, We'll be back to wrap up our number
two in sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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