The shit show starts at 8:00pm. If you would like to suggest rules of the yet to be established drinking game you may do so in the comments below.

While residing in Blacksburg, I made one exception a year to travel to Tennessee. Crazy Herb’s Fireworks in Shady Valley, TN was an annual destination a week before I celebrated Lady America’s Independence. A boy needs both alcohol and explosives, not glorified sparklers, to blow off some fingers.

I don’t like Tennessee. Rocky Top is a horrible song. Our orange is better. Beat Tennessee and Happy New Year to everyone not on top of Rocky Top.

Etching Super Mario Brothers power ups into your head is the new hotness. I’m jealous.

But, not even a Power Star/Starman could help Jacory and Miami against Whiskey in the Champs Sports Bowl. However, it’s a bitching fade and shave so perfectly executed that it at least deserves the reverse angle look.

Now go find that lost swagger Jacory.

The Las Vegas Blow, err Bowl, looked pretty miserable. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!

You know the deal. Tell me why I’m wrong in the comments and leave any/all of your picks there too.

34. Emerald: Boston College-Southern Cal
Skinny: USC has superior talent, more experienced coaches and home field advantage. Maybe Jeff and Brian can take a mancation from their wives and give me a reason to feel good about BC’s chances.

33. Sugar: Florida-Cincinnati
Skinny: The Gators could very well be the second best team in the country and Urban Meyer will have them motivated. It’ll be interesting to see if Tony Pike can carve up the Florida defense and secondary.

0b100000. Orange: Iowa-Georgia Tech
Skinny: The Ramblin’s Wreck is gaining 307 rushing yards a game while the Hawkeyes are only allowing 122 rushing yards a game.

31. Liberty: Arkansas-East Carolina
Skinny: Ryan Mallet is only second to D’Angelo Barksdale when it comes to slingin’ the rock.

30. Hawaii: Nevada-SMU
Skinny: June Jones will be too busy watching his back to focus on the game.

I hope there’s a Thuggie under everyone’s tree on Christmas Eve.

29. BCS MNC: Texas-Alabama
Skinny: All year long Texas has tiptoed through a Nancy of a schedule, while Alabama has taken some of the best behind the woodshed. Alabama’s experience and grit will give them the edge in a close championship game. Continue Reading “2009-10 Bowl Mania” »

A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on its plate.

The bill, which faces long odds of becoming law, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I football game as a national championship unless that title contest is the result of a playoff

from With Leather via FOXSports.com

Because the longest of odds can always hit, let’s think of some alternative names for the BCS to use instead of National Championship. For starters:

• Medellín Presents: The Cartel Championship
• Commercials Promising to Make Your Dick Hard Sprinkled Throughout 4½ Hours of Football
• No Seriously, We Can Call it the National Championship because the Entire Season is a Playoff
  
• American Idol on FOX, the Preview Show
• The BCS Bowl Presented by Bob’s Big Boy
• The If-You-Want-a-Playoff-then-Fuck Off-and-Watch-I-AA Game
• That Game at the End of the Year that Matters More than the Rest

Leave some more in the comments.

This email just hit the inbox. Let the mudslinging commence. Lady Vols, cackle.

So it’s back to Atlanta, again. Will the third time be the charm?

These are my initial thoughts. Continue Reading “Hokies Will Play Vols in Peach Bowl” »

I received a tip that the Hokies have a handshake deal in place to play in the 2010 Gator Bowl against either Cincinnati or West Virginia. If Cincinnati beats Pittsburgh (Saturday 10/5 at noon) we’ll play the Mountaineers otherwise it’s the Bearcats. The source is extremely confident and in the know. But, like all non-published agreements there’s always the possibility it can fall through.

In my opinion our chances of making a BCS game were slim and none. The Peach and Gator Bowl have been the logical choices all along. So unless there’s all out chaos (namely Boise State losing and Clemson winning) expect to ring in the New Year in Jacksonville.

Update (10:25am) via Jacksonville.com: Florida State could be selected for Gator Bowl for Bobby Bowden’s final game.

The Times-Union has learned that given certain conditions, Florida State and West Virginia will be invited to play in the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl Jan. 1 at the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium — a matchup that would be FSU coach Bobby Bowden’s final college game, against the team he coached prior to taking over the Seminoles in 1976.

According to sources familiar with the Gator Bowl Association selection process, it was decided Monday night at a meeting of the selection committee to match the teams under two conditions: that Bowden actually retire as the FSU coach today, as has been widely reported, and that the Seminoles are eligible to be invited to the game, given the outcome of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game Saturday and the ACC bowl selection guidelines.

Update (12/2 1:50am) via GoVolsXtra: In another “dream” matchup, Hokies versus Volunteers in the Peach Bowl.

The Chick-fil-A had identified UT as its top target if it slipped past the Outback, and the Vols and Hokies (9-3, 6-2 ACC) now look set to play in Atlanta on Dec. 31 at 7:30 p.m.