College Bowl Play of the Day: Cotton Bowl

It's January 7, and we have LSU and Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.

Both teams have coaches that receive a lot of criticism.  But this season they won games and here they are in the 2011 Cotton Bowl.

All you have to know here is LSU is the better team.

LSU is favored by 2.5 pts and my analysis says it should be more than that.  That with the fact that LSU is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 Bowl games. 

Texas A&M missed out on the Big 12 Championship game due to a tiebreaker, and they finished with six straight wins in the Big 12.  LSU uses a two-quarterback rotation, and they use it well.  Look for that to confule the A&M defense and look for LSU to capitalize on a couple turnovers.

LSU has a little too much for A&M and they will cover.

College Bowl Play of the Day: GoDaddy.Com Bowl

Yes, there is a bowl game tonight.

The GoDaddy.Com Bowl featuring Miami (OH) and Middle Tennessee St.

You can throw all the records out when it comes to the GoDaddy.Com Bowl.

Middle Tennessee St. ended up the year going 6-6 after playing a difficult schedule.  They feature a strong running game and have a solid group of runners.

Miami (OH) is finishing up a 9-4 year, but there coach left for Pitt. (He was hired by Pitt and then fired last week)

Miami has a good defense, but their offense is a little banged up. 

Miami will be going to its first bowl game since 2004, when it lost to Iowa State in the Independence Bowl. The RedHawks are 6-2 in bowls, including a three-year stretch of wins from 1973-75 in the Tangerine Bowl that included victories over Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Middle Tennessee is 1-1 in its short bowl history, including last year's victory over Southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl.

Middle Tenn. is gining Maimi 2 pts, but that's not enough.  Take MTSU and give the points.

College Bowl Play of the Day: Sugar Bowl

Down in New Orleans, it's Ohio State and Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.

The play is: Ohio St.

Playing with a chip on their shoulder and only giving the Hogs 3 pts, I like Ohio St. tonight to keep my streak going.

Ohio St. hasn't been any good at all in BCS play, but they are 8-0 ATS in their last 8 non-conference games.  I think they will continue that this evening.  Arkansas is  1-4 ATS in their last 5 bowl games.

Besides, I hate Bobby Petrino more than I hate Jim Tressel.

Go with the Buckeyes in this one.

College Bowl Play of the Day: Orange Bowl

The Orange Bowl: Stanford vs. Virginia Tech

Am Orange Bowl featuring two of the hottest teams in college football.  Virginia Tech went 11-0 straight up and 9-2 against the spread after losing to Boise State and James Madison to open the year.

Stanford, meanwhile, blew out the majority of its opponents and led Oregon 21-3 after the first quarter before losing 52-31 in the end.

Stanford is giving VA Tech 3.5 pts, but I still like the Cardinal.

Stanford features the best quarterback in college football and a sure fire NFL starter in Andrew Luck.  The Hokies are stout on defense, one of the best teams at stopping opponents on 3rd down.  3rd downs will be crucial in this game. 

The Cardinal are 4-0-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall.  Look for them to be 5-0-1 after tonight's game.  Go with Stanford.

New Years Day Bowl Plays of the Day: Florida and Wisconsin

New Years Day is traditionally the biggest college bowl day of the year.  It's a day to get comfortable infront of the television, eat some junk food and watch a day-long marathon of football.

Two picks today:

Outback Bowl - Florida

Florida, in Urban Meyer's last game as head coach is only giving Penn St. and Joe Paterno 7 pts.  I see the Gators in a blowout.  Both teams are 7-5 and are looking to go out winners on this season.  Florida is  4-1 ATS in their last 5 bowl games with Meyer at the helm.

Look for Meyer to go out as a big winner in the Outback Bowl.  Take the Gators -7.

The Rose Bowl - Wisconsin

 Should be a good Rose Bowl here.  12-0 TCU and 11-1 Wisconsin. 

To say Wisconsin has been dominating teams is an understatement.  To close out the regular season, they scored 70 against Northwestern and before that they scored 83 vs. Indiana.  They are rolling and TCU is going to have to work hard to stop them. 

TCU is no slouch, especially on defense.  But the Badgers are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 games following a S.U. win and are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games following a ATS win.  Strong trends for Wisco along with the fact they play well against teams that are good, going 4-0 ATS vs. a team with a winning record.

The Horned Frogs are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 non-conference games, so the play would be takeWisconsin and the 3 pts.  Wisconsin will probably even win the game.

Enjoy the games today.