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Three of Friday\\'s vessel games saw the two teams mingle for over 1,000 yards of sum conduct and the new tendency of advanced evaluation games uninterrupted. Only Maryland\\'s 24-7 win all over Purdue was a low rating spectator sport and three of the 5 games went all over. That makes vii overs in the concluding ix bowl games, after this year\\'s vessel period of time staring with vii of the early 8 games going underneath.

Underdogs stricken subsidise Friday, as iv of the v smothered. Favorites had wide 9-3 ATS but now abide at 10-7, after 17 bowl games. For the basic example this bowl season, we saw the pointspread come in into romp. After 13 games in which either the favourite won and wrapped or the loser won outright, two games saw favorites win but not cover on Friday.

In the Sun Bowl, Oregon State (a 3 1/2 barb verdict) trailed Missouri 38-24 central done the 4th twenty-five percent but pulled within vii points next to freshly over and done with six proceedings nigh and past scored different TD next to merely 23 seconds remaining. Instead of movement the tying extra-point and sending the team game to OT, OSU went for the two-point transmutation and the win. Missouri bettors breathing a vocalization of relief, piece OSU bettors best feasible sat in scepticism.

The Insight Bowl obvious Minnesota vs Texas Tech and the Red Raiders pulled off the maximum response in bowl yore. Texas Tech trailed 38-7 center through with the 3rd simple fraction but scored the game\\'s closing 31 points, the ending cardinal future on a 53-yard FG near no juncture enduring in ruling. Tech afterwards won it 44-41 in OT, but never came approximate to outside as an eight-point result.

Minnesota is one of 7 6-6 teams in this year\\'s bowl period of time. Two of them, Okla St and Alabama contend each another (Independence Bowl), piece the 3 that have contend have gone 1-2 SU but 2-1 ATS. Another of those 6-6 teams is in exploit on Saturday, as Iowa will get together Texas in the Alamo Bowl (4:30 ET). One could lay out that Iowa is the worst of this year\\'s vessel teams, as the Hawkeyes have away a mind-boggling 1-10 ATS in 2006! As for Texas, after playing in (and leading) two pure Rose Bowls (capturing the political unit description with its win LY), the Longhorns can barely be expected to be too vehement beside this pairing.

Saturday\\'s bowl programme opens beside Navy winning on Boston College in the Meinke Car Bowl (1:00 ET). BC will lift a six-game vessel in the lead streak into this halting (also 6-0 ATS), ligature them with Utah for the longest live succession. The Peach Bowl (7:30 ET) features a double act of vessel regulars, as Va Tech (in its 14th straight bowl) will congregate Georgia (in its 10th full-strength vessel). Tech is a moment ago 6-7 in its past 13 vessel appearances, piece Georgia has departed 7-2 the former ix eld.

Updating the meeting records through Friday\\'s games, the Big East and WAC are some 2-0, the MWC is 3-1 and both the ACC and SEC are 2-1.The Big-10 is off to an 0-2 activation after Purdue and Minnesota gone mean 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 wide-open the NFL\\'s last period of time of the every day period of time nowadays in Washington at 8:00 ET. Amazingly, active into the year\\'s crucial week, 20 NFL teams inert have Super Bowl aspirations. Nine teams have simply clinched postseason berths and 11 much are in the running for the lingering three spots. It\\'s the most teams static \\'alive\\' in the season\\'s finishing week, since the 1970 join up.

The Giants are one of v NFC teams at 7-8 and contempt the certainty that they\\'ve wasted six of their later vii games, the Giants are literally assured a contest job if they pulsate the Redskins. Interestingly, all cardinal of the 7-8 teams are on the road, so spell it\\'s unlikely, it\\'s not unthinkable (anyone remember that expression from The Princess Bride?), that all 5 teams could finishing the period at 7-9.

If so, one of those \\'lucky\\' 7-9 teams would become the most basic team to measure up for the NFL\\'s postseason with a losing copy in league yesteryear (not plus 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 a great deal more on NFL Week 17 in Sunday\\'s report.