
Chizik and Auburn had a Happy Halloween becoming Bowl worthy after a 33-20 victory over Ole Miss.
By: THS
Back when I was playing football in high school, we were expecting to be terrible my senior year. Our quarterback was debating quitting to focus on baseball, we were starting two sophomores on the o-line, and we had a tall skinny white kid playing running back. Along came a surprise on the first day of spring practice by the name of Montez Billings. He was tall, skinny-style ripped, and could do a 360 degree spin in the air before dunking a basketball. After the first day of practice, my o-line coach looked at us and said “he’s going to be the spark that keeps us in ball games.”
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College football is nearing an end. Only the GMAC Bowl and the Bogus..err.. Bowl Championship Series title game remaining, what has this bowl season taught us? We’ve learned that the GMAC bowl is curiously placed in the middle of the majors for some unknown reason, for one. We’ve learned that it was a lot more fun when all of the major bowls were played on a single day, for another. In the coming days we’ll probably learn, or re-learn, that Tim Tebow is not human.
Here, though, are the top ten things that the 2008-09 bowl season taught us:
1. The Big 10 is overrated. Completely and utterly overrated. Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State, Northwestern and Wisconsin were all losers. Only Iowa’s win over South Carolina kept it from being a total Big 10 bust. Few of the games were even close. Slow is slow. The Big 10 is slow. There’s not a single team in the Big 10 that would be consistently competitive in any of the other major conferences.
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