Tuesday, January 1, 2013
A look at the January 1 college football games.
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Tuesday, January 1
Updated 9:49 a.m., January 1 A generation ago, New Year's Day was THE day for college football bowl games. There were the Big Four -- Rose, Orange, Cotton and Sugar. And the season ended there. Now, January 1 no longer the culmination, but it still offers some pretty good football. And in fact, the Rose Bowl is still holding to tradition, teeing it up at 5 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday in Pasadena, Calif. There are five other bowl games Tuesday, including the Capital One Bowl in Orlando, Fla, which pits SEC runner-up Georgia against Big Ten runner-up Nebraska. (Game time 1 p.m., ABC). Catching up with the latest developments with the Bulldogs: In Tuesday's other bowl games: Gator: Mississippi State vs. Northwestern, noon, ESPN2 Heart of Dallas…
Sunday, December 2, 2012
A report says the Gators, despite that loss to the Bulldogs, will get the SEC's other spot. The BCS matchups will be announced Sunday, December 2.
It's unofficial, but a leading online publication already is speculating that Florida, not Georgia, will get the SEC's remaining BCS bowl spot in 2012. Bleacher Report (published by Turner Broadcasting System) has projected in a Sunday posting (December 2) that the Gators will be matched against Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl, one of four BCS bowls outside of the title game. That projection would leave Georgia, SEC runner-up, out of the BCS picture and settling for a lesser bowl. Alabama, which won the SEC title Saturday, will be matched against Notre Dame for the BCS title. No conference can have more than two teams in the BCS bowls. Georgia was No. 3 and Florida No. 4 in the final regular-season BCS standings. Now, the Bulldogs have two …
Georgia heads for Capital One Bowl, not the BCS. Georgia Tech gets the Sun Bowl.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Updated December 3, 2012 Georgia Bulldogs fans now know which postseason game their team will play in. The "big enchilada" was determined Saturday night, when Alabama defeated the Bulldogs 32-28 for the SEC title. That means the Tide will take on Notre Dame in the BCS Championship Game (January 7). Georgia, No. 3 in BCS standings before the loss to Alabama, will play Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando on Jan 1, 2013. It's the second straight year that the Bulldogs have been runners-up in the SEC, yet have gotten shut out of the top BCS bowls. -- How do you feel about Georgia's bowl situation? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The biggest football bowl games start Monday. Did anybody mention money?
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
It used to be simple -- four football bowl games on New Year's Day, or Jan. 2 if New Year's Day fell on Sunday, as it does in 2012. Now, the long arm of television has the big games scattered out for a week. But the big ones now are the Bowl Championship Series games, which begin Monday and conclude with the LSU-Alabama title game on Jan. 9. The attached graphic, provided by H&R Block, shows that bowl games mean millions of dollars to the participating schools and the host cities. As with the regular season, the term "amateur athletics" seems odd. But people love the football, so here is the schedule for this year's BCS games (all BCS games are on ESPN). Rose Bowl: Jan. 2, Wisconsin-Oregon, 5 p.m. Fiesta Bowl: Jan. 2, Stanford-Oklahoma …
Steve Burns
6:31 am on Monday, December 3, 2012
Georgia will face Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando on Jan. 1. Georgia Tech will play USC in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 31. more ›