Couple of news items of interest to, well, me before I talk about tomorrow’s bowl game.

• FSN fires one of my least favorite announcers ever. It’s hard to explain how idiotic I thought Bob Rathburn was. My only question is whether or not he’s going to continue doing other FSN broadcasts, namely, college basketball and baseball. Now only if FOX would fire Joe Buck and ESPN would fire Joe Morgan, we’d be in business.
• CB Kenny Scott and QB Reggie Ball declared academically ineligible. I don’t have a lot to say about this, except I remember being on that field after that Auburn game and carrying Reggie off. Times have changed mightily since then.

So, the Las Vegas Bowl: BYU-Oregon. Oregon is an okay Pac-10 team, meanwhile, BYU is the best Mountain West team. It’s hard to get a read on that, though. BYU lost to both of the BCS conference teams they played (Boston College and Arizona), but if there were any justice in this world Oregon would be 6-6. Oregon has also lost 3 straight games, including a loss to their rival. Meanwhile, BYU hasn’t lost since September 16th and beat their rival. The edge, for me, has to go to BYU – these are two teams heading in completely opposite directions. That said, I only like the Stormin’ Mormons by a touchdown, so I’m not certain of this one.

Also, my completely bowl predictions have been uploaded, and the link to your right is updated with the new URL.

Because no one asked for it, I’ll be talking about the game for the rest of the night, just for no other reason than because I can. The comments will be in the, well, comments.

That’s right folks, it’s bowl time! I’m looking forward to it…since it’s exceedingly likely I won’t be able to upload the predictions anytime soon, I’ll say it here:

Garret Wolfe nonwithstadning, TCU has a good football team this year. Teams from the MAC usually don’t. I say 28-21 in a shootout for TCU, which is basically my way of saying “I don’t really know who’s going to win, but I like TCU better for whatever reason.”

More to come in a few days, hopefully.

You’re going to need it.

Edit! I spoke too soon! He definitely made the right call here.

These are the final predictions of the year. After the schedule is set, I’ll start predicting games.

That’s all I really have to say right now.

Edit: Final bowl schedule is up. More to say probably after finals next week.