The 2009 football season ends tonight with the crowning of a national champion, when Texas and Alabama meet in the BCS national title game in Pasadena. The Longhorns are looking for their fifth title and their second in five year (2005). Alabama, on the other hand are after their 10th title and first since 1992.
Both [...]
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Last Season
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The NCAA has upheld its decision to vacate up to 14 victories from former football coach Bobby Bowden as part of Florida State’s penalty in an academic cheating scandal.
Bowden retired as major college football’s second most winning coach with 389 wins after Florida State’s 33-21 Gator Bowl victory over West Virginia, Jan. [...]
The 2009 Big Ten football season is complete and three teams have finished with 11-2 records: conference champion Ohio State, Iowa and Penn State. The Hawkeyes completed the conference season by defeating Georgia Tech in Tuesday’s Orange Bowl, 24-14. The only thing left is the national championship game tomorrow night in Pasadena when Texas meets [...]
The Iowa Hawkeyes play Georgia Tech tonight in the Orange Bowl to close out the 2009 Big Ten football season. The conference is currently 3-3 in post-season play and a Iowa victory would help the Big Ten end the season on a positive note.
The 2009 football season is over so is Daryl Clark’s tenure as the team’s quarterback. Since he began as the team’s starter in 2008, the team finished an amazing 22-4, captured a Big Ten championship, a BCS bowl bid, a New Year’s Day Bowl victory and secured two top 10 finishes.
Yep, the team was thisclose of [...]
AN ANTONIO — No questions about Mike Leach. No questions about Adam James.
Those were the ground rules Texas Tech quarterback Steven Sheffield laid down Saturday night after saving the day in a thrilling Alamo Bowl victory that his fired head coach would’ve loved.
Let him enjoy it somewhere else, the Red Raiders said. This isn’t his team [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Pat Fitzgerald reached into Northwestern’s bag of tricks one more time, hoping to pull out the perfect play to give his team a dramatic victory over Auburn in the Outback Bowl.
“I’ve had it in my back pocket for four years, and people tell me I’m too conservative. So I said, ‘What the heck. We’re [...]
PASADENA, Calif. – Ohio State’s bowl woes are over, thanks to a sturdy defense and a quarterback who finally played up to his enormous potential.
Terrelle Pryor passed for a season-high 266 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for 72 more and threw a 17-yard scoring pass to DeVier Posey with 7:02 to play, ending the No. 8 [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)–Dampened by rain, slowed by mud and trailing late in the fourth quarter, Daryll Clark was determined to get Penn State some points.
The No. 11 Nittany Lions and their star quarterback emerged from the muck for a thrilling 19-17 win over No. 13 LSU at the Capital One Bowl.
The late-game drive led by Clark [...]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Bobby Bowden rode only a few bouncy steps on his players’ shoulders, then hopped off.
“I thought it was about time to get down,” he said.
Time to say goodbye. As a winner, too.
Jermaine Thomas ran for 121 yards and two touchdowns, MVP E.J. Manuel threw for 189 yards and ran for another score [...]
Ohio State will play in its fifth straight BCS contest when the Buckeyes return to the Rose Bowl Game for first time since 1997. OSU will make its 14th appearance in Pasadena, Calif., the second-highest number of Rose Bowl Game trips among all Big Ten teams behind only Michigan (20). Ohio State is the nation’s [...]
Iowa is bowl-eligible for the ninth consecutive year and will take part in its eighth postseason game in that time span with the program’s second trip to the FedEx Orange Bowl. The Hawkeyes, making their second BCS appearance and first since playing in the 2003 Orange Bowl, will battle ACC Champion Georgia Tech for the [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. — All that Miami speed was no match for the big, bad Badgers.
John Clay had 121 yards rushing and two touchdowns, powering No. 24 Wisconsin past 14th-ranked Miami 20-14 in the Champs Sports Bowl on Tuesday night.
Clay ran through, over and around the Hurricanes to help the Badgers (10-3) earn their first victory [...]
Michigan State will make its second appearance in the Valero Alamo Bowl to give the school a third straight postseason game for just the third time in school history, a streak also accomplished from 1987-90 and 1995-97. The Spartans will square off against Texas Tech for the first time in school history. MSU will make [...]
Penn State returns to the Capital One Bowl for the first time since the 2003 event and the fifth time overall, including appearances in 1998, 1994 and 1988. The Nittany Lions will battle Louisiana State for just the second time in school history and the first time since the 1974 Orange Bowl, a 16-9 victory [...]
