As the title of this post indicates, I really hope that you and the ones you love have a Happy New Year. It was a good one, except for the hoosier neighbors down the street waking everyone up with fireworks at midnight.
You may have noticed this is written on January 2nd, mainly because I spent New Year's Day sampling the Smorgasbord of NCAA football bowl games.
I also learned, again, that if it's New Year's Day the Big 10 (or maybe it's the Big 12 or possibly the Big 14) will choke big time. The Big Ten went a whopping one and four. The only winner in the group was Northwestern which finally won a bowl game for the first time since 1949. The Big Ten losers list includes Nebraska, Michigan, Purdue and Wisconsin. At the same time the SEC conference played three games yesterday winning two of them (South Carolina in the Outback Bowl and Georgia in the Capital One Bowl).
And a final thought on the Bowl games yesterday; Northern Illinois had no business playing in the Orange Bowl. Florida State had their way with the NIU in a 31-10 romp. My guess is Louisville of the Big East will suffer a similar fate this evening in the Sugar Bowl when they run into the Florida at the Super Dome. For the record I forecast a 31-14 Florida win.
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