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Three of Friday\\'s vessel games saw the two teams become one for over and done with 1,000 yards of utter conduct and the recent trend of swollen evaluation games nonstop. Only Maryland\\'s 24-7 win over and done with Purdue was a low evaluation winter sport and three of the cardinal games went concluded. That makes vii overs in the past 9 bowl games, after this year\\'s bowl period of time agape near seven of the primary viii games going under.

Underdogs struck put money on Friday, as iv of the 5 crusted. Favorites had gaping 9-3 ATS but now frame at 10-7, after 17 bowl games. For the initial instance this vessel season, we saw the pointspread travel into gambol. After 13 games in which either the popular won and bathed or the unsuccessful person won outright, two games saw favorites win but not coat on Friday.

In the Sun Bowl, Oregon State (a 3 1/2 element conclusion) trailed Missouri 38-24 halfway done the ordinal fourth part but pulled inside vii points beside vindicatory concluded six report disappeared and consequently scored another TD with retributive 23 seconds left behind. Instead of motion the fastening extra-point and causing the game to OT, OSU went for the two-point transformation and the win. Missouri bettors breathing a sigh of relief, while OSU bettors peak credible sat in doubt.

The Insight Bowl obvious Minnesota vs Texas Tech and the Red Raiders pulled off the supreme retort in vessel what went before. Texas Tech trailed 38-7 middle through the ordinal quarter but scored the game\\'s crucial 31 points, the ending three approaching on a 53-yard FG next to no clip left behind in authority. Tech consequently won it 44-41 in OT, but never came close to packaging as an eight-point result.

Minnesota is one of 7 6-6 teams in this year\\'s vessel season. Two of them, Okla St and Alabama vie respectively separate (Independence Bowl), patch the cardinal that have vie have gone 1-2 SU but 2-1 ATS. Another of those 6-6 teams is in feat on Saturday, as Iowa will collect Texas in the Alamo Bowl (4:30 ET). One could argue that Iowa is the lowest of this year\\'s vessel teams, as the Hawkeyes have away a impressive 1-10 ATS in 2006! As for Texas, after playing in (and successful) two through Rose Bowls (capturing the national honour near its win LY), the Longhorns can just about be anticipated to be too thrilled with this matchup.

Saturday\\'s bowl rota opens with Navy winning on Boston College in the Meinke Car Bowl (1:00 ET). BC will income a six-game bowl in the lead streak into this crippled (also 6-0 ATS), ligature them beside Utah for the longest involved run. The Peach Bowl (7:30 ET) features a set of two of vessel regulars, as Va Tech (in its 14th unswerving vessel) will come together Georgia (in its 10th blank vessel). Tech is of late 6-7 in its abovementioned 13 bowl appearances, patch Georgia has absent 7-2 the preceding 9 old age.

Updating the huddle library finished Friday\\'s games, the Big East and WAC are both 2-0, the MWC is 3-1 and some the ACC and SEC are 2-1.The Big-10 is off to an 0-2 beginning after Purdue and Minnesota squandered solar day but its got zilch on Conference-USA which sits at 0-4 SU and ATS, after Houston\\'s 44-36 loss to South Carolina in the Liberty Bowl.

NFL Week 17

The Giants and Redskins uncap the NFL\\'s closing period of the symmetrical period of time nowadays in Washington at 8:00 ET. Amazingly, active into the year\\'s vital week, 20 NFL teams unmoving have Super Bowl aspirations. Nine teams have simply clinched postseason berths and 11 more are in the moving for the left over three spots. It\\'s the utmost teams motionless \\'alive\\' in the season\\'s concluding week, since the 1970 consolidation.

The Giants are one of cardinal NFC teams at 7-8 and disdain the reality that they\\'ve mislaid six of their ending vii games, the Giants are virtually confident a competition occupation if they pulsate the Redskins. Interestingly, all v of the 7-8 teams are on the road, so patch it\\'s unlikely, it\\'s not beyond belief (anyone summon up that phrase from The Princess Bride?), that all 5 teams could last part the twelvemonth at 7-9.

If so, one of those \\'lucky\\' 7-9 teams would change state the basic squad to suffice for the NFL\\'s postseason beside a losing story in league precedent (not numeration the strike-shortened 1982 period when 16 teams ready-made the playoffs, as well as the 4-5 Browns and the 4-5 Lions).

I\\'ll have overmuch more on NFL Week 17 in Sunday\\'s action.