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TV Schedule for the Week 1/14 - 1/20 MONDAY #5 Georgetown at #15 Pittsburgh, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Oklahoma at #3 Kansas, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN Gonzaga at Pepperdine, 11:59/8:59 PM, ESPN TUESDAY Ohio State at #11 Michigan State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Creighton at Northern Iowa, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Kentucky at Mississippi State, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN WEDNESDAY #7 Duke at Florida State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #1 North Carolina at Georgia Tech, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN #10 Texas A&M at Texas Tech, 9:30/6:30 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY #16 Vanderbilt at #6 Tennessee, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #13 Marquette at Louisville, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 #9 Indiana at Minnesota, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN Arizona at Stanford, 11:00/8:00 PM, FSN SATURDAY #25 Villanova at Syracuse, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN Illinois at Purdue, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN Maryland at #1 North Carolina, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC Ohio State at #6 Tennessee, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBS* USC at #4 UCLA, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBS* #10 Texas A&M at Kansas State, 4:00/1:00 PM, ESPN BYU at Utah, 4:00/1:00 PM, Versus #24 Clemson at #7 Duke, 6:00/3:00 PM, ESPN Oregon State at Washington, 6:00/3:00 PM, FSN Kentucky at Florida, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN SUNDAY Oregon at #8 Washington State, 8:00/5:00 PM, FSN

AFC Divisional Playoff: Miami Dolphins vs. Los Angeles Raiders Scoring Summary LA: Allen 1 Run Mia: Stoyanovich 20 FG LA: Jaeger 58 FG LA: Jackson 75 Run Mia: Clayton 59 Pass from Marino Mia: Stoyanovich 45 FG Mia: Duper 28 Pass from Marino LA: Horton 23 Pass from Beurlein After squandering a couple of first half scoring opportunities the Dolphins appeared they would be on their way to another second half comeback playoff win but Steve Beurlein came off the bench for an injured Jay Schroeder to lead a 4th quarter touchdown drive for the win. The key sequence in the game came late in the first half when Mike Hardin intercepted a Dan Marino pass in the endzone and would be followed a few plays later by a 75 yard touchdown run by Bo Jackson to give the Raiders a 17-3 halftime lead. NFC Divisional Playoff: Philadelphia Eagles vs. Minnesota Vikings Scoring Summary PHI: Sherman 14 Run MIN: Fenney 1 Run PHI: Ruzek 50 FG MIN: Carter 21 Pass from Wilson MIN: Fenney 28 Pass from Wilson PHI: Barnett 38 Pass from Cunningham MIN: Carter 56 Pass from Wilson Wade Wilson threw three second half touchdowns, two to Anthony Carter, as the Vikings continue their surprisingly strong season with a trip the NFC Championship Game. After killing the Redskins with both his arm and legs in the Wild Card round, QB Eagles was unable to break any big runs in this one. AFC Divisional Playoff: Houston Oilers vs. Buffalo Bills Scoring Summary Scoreless First Quarter Hou: Givens 54 Pass from Moon Hou: Hill 27 Pass from Moon Buf: Mueller 1 Run Hou: Givens 57 Pass from Moon Buff: Reed 14 Pass from Kelly Hou: Hill 31 Pass from Moon Buf: Thomas 64 Pass from Kelly The Houston Oilers go into Buffalo in a playoff game and don’t blow a big lead! Warren Moon was unstoppable with four touchdown passes as he leads the Oilers to their first AFC Championship Game appearance in 12 years. Thurman Thomas had over 200 yards in total offense in the losing effort. NFC Divisional Playoff: Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers Scoring Summary LA: Ellard 47 Pass from Everett SF: Craig 4 Run LA: Warner 6 Run SF: Rice 4 Pass from Montana LA: Warner 4 Run LA: Ellard 15 Pass from Everett SF: Rice 55 Pass from Montana SF: Craig 4 Run LA: Gary 4 Run SF: Rice 12 Pass from Montana SF: Taylor 65 Pass from Montana In a classic shootout, the 49ers outlast in their divisional rival Rams in overtime 41-35. This game featured some “great” Tecmo computer logic in overtime as after the Rams won the coin toss the 49ers decided to catch the Rams off guard I suppose by going for an onside kick. It backfired and the Rams returned it to the 49ers 35. Then rather than try to move the ball closer the Rams elected to attempt a 52 yard field to win it but Mike Lansford’s kick hit the left upright. Joe Montana would hit a wide open John Taylor on the next play for the winning touchdown.

Ken Rosenthal is reporting that the Blue Jays and Cardinals are close to doing a Troy Glaus for Scott Rolen swap with the Cardinals throwing in some cash.

Goose Gossage is a lock this year as he got more than 71% of the vote last season with a much stronger ballot. This might be Jim Rice's last and best chance as next year (final year on ballot for Rice) is the year of RICKEY~. Tim Raines is the only first ballot player who deserves enshrinement but he has no shot this year and might never get in. Of course Mark McGwire will once again be a big topic of debate. He had only 23.5% of the vote on his first try last year but that was with several writers using a one-year boycott for known/likely steroid users so he should get a nice bump this year but won't be anywhere close to getting in. Holdovers (pct. of vote last year) 1. Goose Gossage 71.2% (9th year on ballot) 2. Jim Rice 63.5% (14th) 3. Andre Dawson 56.7% (7th) 4. Bert Blyleven 47.7% (11th) 5. Lee Smith 39.8% (6th) 6. Jack Morris 37.1% (9th) 7. Mark McGiwre 23.5% (2nd) 8. Tommy John 22.9% (14th) 9. Dave Concepcion 13.6% (15th and final year) 10. Alan Trammell 13.4% (7th) 11. Dave Parker 11.4% (12th) 12. Don Mattingly 9.9% (8th) 13. Dale Murphy 9.2% (10th) 14. Harold Baines 5.3% (2nd) Newcomers Brady Anderson Rod Beck Shawon Dunston Chuck Finley Travis Fryman David Justice Chuck Knoblauch Robb Nen Tim Raines Jose Rijo Todd Stottlemyre

Same rule for the bowl games as the Conference Championships, all picks must be sent to me by PM with the exception of my opponent AboveAverage484. Once I get both sets of picks for a bowl game I will post the picks in the thread. The winner of the Bored Bowl gets $50 and the winners of the other bowl games will have the option of coming up with their own bowl game name next year. Bowl Games Deadline Thursday, December 20th, 9:00 PM EST/6:00 PM PST Bowl Games Match-ups Bored Bowl #1 South Carolina* (Cuban Linx, 11-2) vs. #2 Nebraska* (Mecca, 10-3) The Synagogue Bowl presented by Al Jazerra #3 N.C. State (Above Average484, 8-4) vs. #5 Stanford* (Bored, 9-4) Deadspin.com Barbaro Memorial Bowl #4 LSU (teke184, 9-3) vs. #10 Texas* (UTBroward, 8-4) The SWF.com Dust Bowl #6 Boise State* (Vitamin X, 10-3) vs. #8 Rutgers* (the pinjockey, 8-5) Covers.com Degenerate Bowl #7 Florida State* (King, 8-4) vs. Syracuse* (CanadianChris, 7-5) ConED Blackout Bowl #9 Virginia* (Edwin MacPhisto, 8-5) vs. UTEP* (Angel Grace Blue, 7-6) Ex-Lax Toilet Bowl Kent State* (JHawk, 8-4) vs. Arizona (UZI Suicide, 6-6) KFC PETA Bowl UCLA* (phoenixrising, 7-6) vs. Michigan* (MFerXtreme87, 7-5) Trent Boyette’s Texas Chili Bowl Miami of Ohio* (Hawk 34, 7-6) vs. San Diego State* (the walkin' dude, 6-6) Bowl Games December 20th Poinsettia: Utah vs. Navy December 21st New Orleans: Florida Atlantic vs. Memphis December 22nd PapaJohns.com: Southern Miss vs. Cincinnati New Mexico: Nevada vs. New Mexico Las Vegas: BYU vs. UCLA December 23rd Hawaii: Boise State vs. East Carolina December 26th Motor City: Purdue vs. Central Michigan December 27th Holiday: Arizona State vs. Texas December 28th Champs Sports: Boston College vs. Michigan State Texas: TCU vs. Houston Emerald: Oregon State vs. Maryland December 29th Meineke Car Care: Wake Forest vs. Connecticut Liberty: UCF vs. Mississippi State Alamo: Penn State vs. Texas A&M December 30th Independence: Alabama vs. Colorado December 31st Armed Forces: Air Force vs. California Sun: South Florida vs. Oregon Humanitarian: Fresno State vs. Georgia Tech Music City: Florida State vs. Kentucky Insight: Oklahoma State vs. Indiana Chick-fil-A: Clemson vs. Auburn January 1st Outback: Wisconsin vs. Tennessee Cotton: Arkansas vs. Missouri Gator: Texas Tech vs. Virginia Capital One: Michigan vs. Florida Rose: USC vs. Illinois Sugar: Georgia vs. Hawaii January 2nd Fiesta: Oklahoma vs. West Virginia January 3rd Orange: Virginia Tech vs. Kansas January 5th International: Ball State vs. Rutgers January 6th GMAC: Bowling Green vs. Tulsa January 7th BCS: Ohio State vs. LSU Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the BCS Championship Game? Tiebreak #2: How many total yards of offense will there be in the BCS Championship Game?

Since I'm in it I suppose I should vote but I'm clearly not getting out of the first round. Milky MiB Ripper Agent Cartman CG Cena kkk kkc CC King Rant Slayer Carnival Mole treble Czech alfdogg KingPK snuffbox VX gary Porter Bob BL Bored Spiff Edwin al cheech Smues Marvin

When the sign up thread is up in July/August. I mean you could come up with a name now but I won't remember it by then.

A bit late on this. TV Schedule for the Week of 1/7 - 1/13 TUESDAY #10 Indiana at Michigan, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Wichita State at Missouri State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Florida at Alabama, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN WEDNESAY #9 Duke at Temple, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #20 Pittsburgh at South Florida, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY West Virginia at Louisville, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Illinois at #21 Wisconsin, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN Arkansas at Auburn, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 #4 Washington State at USC, 11:00/8:00 PM, FSN SATURDAY N.C. State at #1 North Carolina, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN #13 Vanderbilt at Kentucky, 1:30 PM/10:30 AM, CBS* Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 1:30 PM/10:30 AM, CBS* Connecticut at #7 Georgetown, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN #4 Washington State at #5 UCLA, 2:30 PM/11:30 AM, FSN Arizona at Houston, 3:00 PM/Noon, ESPN2 California at Oregon State, 4:30/1:30 PM, FSN #3 Kansas at Nebraska, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN SUNDAY Illinois at #10 Indiana, 4:30/1:30 PM, CBS* #23 Stanford at Oregon, 4:30/1:30 PM, CBS* Virginia at #9 Duke, 8:00/5:00 PM, FSN

We finally get to the meat of the bowl season with 12 games in the next two days. The best match-up on New Year's Eve is the TAFKA Peach Bowl but probably the most intriguing match-up is the potential train wreck that will the Music City Bowl with the 36 suspended FSU players. For New Year's obviously the game that will generate the most interest is the Sugar Bowl as Hawaii tries to do their best Boise State impression against Georgia. After that we get a couple more BCS bowls and the two very silly MAC bowls before the MNC Game which there will be a separate thread for. MONDAY Armed Forces Bowl: California vs. Air Force, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, ESPN Sun Bowl: #21 South Florida vs. Oregon, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, CBS Humanitarian Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. Fresno State, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN2 Music City Bowl: Kentucky vs. Florida State, 4:00/1:00 PM, ESPN Insight Bowl: Indiana vs. Oklahoma State, 5:30/2:30 PM, NFL Network Chick-Fil-A Bowl: #15 Clemson vs. #23 Auburn, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN TUESDAY Outback Bowl: #16 Tennessee vs. #18 Wisconsin, 11:00/8:00 AM, ESPN Cotton Bowl: #6 Missouri vs. Arkansas, 11:30/8:30 AM, Fox Gator Bowl: Texas Tech vs. #20 Virginia, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS Capital One Bowl: Michigan vs. #12 Florida, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, ABC Rose Bowl: #13 Illinois vs. #7 USC, 4:30/1:30 PM, ABC Sugar Bowl: #10 Hawaii vs. #5 Georgia, 8:30/5:30 PM, Fox WEDNESDAY Fiesta Bowl: #9 West Virginia vs. #4 Oklahoma, 8:00/5:00 PM, Fox THURSDAY Orange Bowl: #8 Kansas vs. #3 Virginia Tech, 8:00/5:00 PM, Fox SATURDAY International Bowl: Rutgers vs. Ball State, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2 SUNDAY GMAC Bowl: Bowling Green vs. Tulsa, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN

Bowl Games Final Results Bored Bowl #1 South Carolina (Cuban Linx) 22, #2 Nebraska (Mecca) 17 The Synagogue Bowl presented by Al Jazerra #3 N.C. State (AboveAverage484) 24, #5 Stanford (Bored) 23 Deadspin.com Barbaro Memorial Bowl #10 Texas (UTBroward) 20, #4 LSU (teke184) 19 The SWF.com Dust Bowl #6 Boise State (Vitamin X) 19, #8 Rutgers (the pinjockey) 18 Covers.com Degenerate Bowl Syracuse (CanadianChris) 21, #7 Florida State (King) 17 ConED Blackout Bowl #9 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 23, UTEP (Angel Grace Blue) 15 Ex-Lax Toilet Bowl Kent State (JHawk) 20, Arizona (UZI Suicide) 18 KFC PETA Bowl UCLA (phoenixrising) 21, Michigan (MFerXtreme87) 19 Trent Boyette’s Texas Chili Bowl Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34) 23, San Diego State (the walkin' dude) 21 Once again congratulations to Cuban Linx for winning the whole thing and congratulations to all the other bowl winners. I want to thank all of you who stuck around again for the whole season. I had a lot more fun running the contest this year than last and do plan on bringing back for season #5 in 2008.

Well it was interesting for a quarter and a half. We have our two loss MNC and things might never be the same again.

Alumni Kicker Challenge? How exciting.

Sure is a lot of anticipation for tonight's game I see. Guess I didn't need to make a separate thread.

Back in August when I was completely out of ideas for this blog I started simming a Tecmo Super Bowl season using an NES emulator I downloaded like five years ago and posted the results here. I got through the regular season but for the playoffs I'd decided I should sit and watch the computer play itself instead of just simming the games and I was Bored in a hurry. After two games I stopped and eventually forgot about the whole thing. But I'm currently out of ideas again so might as well finish thing, just in time for the real NFL Playoffs. So you don't have to go digging for the old entries (and why would you?) here's the playoff picture: Since I don't think I ever bothered to watch the computer play itself back in the day I don't remember if there is any sort of bug that causes every playoff game to be decided by exactly seven points but that is what happened in this round. Hopefully that won't continue. AFC Wild Card: San Diego Chargers vs. Miami Dolphins Scoring Summary SD: Butts 42 Run SD: Carney 23 FG MIA: Clayton 62 Pass from Marino MIA: Clayton 24 Pass from Marino MIA: Stoyanovich 21 FG Mark Clayton burned the Chargers’ secondary for 152 yards as after a sluggish first half the Dolphins dominate the second half to advance. Charges moved the ball inside the Dolphins’ 30 late in the 4th quarter but turned it over on downs. NFC Wild Card: Washington Redskins vs. Philadelphia Eagles When I did this game back in August it looks like I forgot to take a screen shot of the boxscore. Eagles 28, Redskins 21 Scoring Summary WAS: Clark 59 Pass from Rypien PHI: Williams 52 Pass from Cunningham WAS: Clark 25 Pass from Rypien PHI: Williams 44 Pass from Cunningham WAS: Clark 14 Run PHI: Cunningham 4 Run PHI: Sherman 21 Run An amazing performance by QB Eagles aka Randall Cunningham leads the Eagles into the next round. Cunningham threw for 220 yards and ran for 127 more as the Redskins defense did not force the Eagles to punt the entire game. The Redskins offense moved through the Eagle defense like butter in the first half scoring all three possessions but could not get a first down in the second half. AFC Wild Card: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Houston Oilers Scoring Summary HOU: Fuller 37 Fumble Return HOU: Jefferies 11 Pass from Moon PIT: Hoge 7 Run HOU: Duncan 19 Pass from Moon PIT: Williams 3 Run In the a battle of the #3 offense in the league and the #1 defense in the league, offense won out as the Oilers outlast the Steelers. Pittsburgh made it a game after digging a 14-0 hole and had the ball at the end of the game but in true Tecmo computer fashion they ran the ball and ran out the clock. NFC Wild Card: Los Angeles Rams vs. New York Giants LA: Warner 1 Run NY: Megget 2 Run LA: Lansford 29 FG NY: Bahr 55 FG LA: Gary 5 Run LA: Anderson 13 Pass from Everett NY: Ingram 36 Pass from Simms The defending Super Bowl Champs season comes to a disastrous end as after choking away a first round bye down the stretch they then proceed to be upset by the Rams in the Wild Card round. Willie Anderson went wild on the Giants secondary as the Rams were able to the move the ball without much resistance most of the game. Giants scored a meaningless touchdown as time expired to make the final score closer than it really was.

It would have been a futile effort anyways as dumping a bucket of Gatorade on Magino is like dumping a thimble of Gatorade on a normal man.

Believe it or not his primary position last year was center field although that was purely due to the huge number of injuries the A's had. He actually is a pretty good defensive corner outfielder (and very good by some metrics) and as an occasional fill in center he's fine but not someone you want to rely as your everyday center fielder.

Okay now this a shocker as I didn't hear any rumors about Swisher. Don't have time at the moment to look into the names but glancing at BTF it seems the consensus is this is a very good haul for Swisher but holy shit is this team going to be dreadful next year. Might as well tarp off everything except field level seats and bleachers for 2008 as it will be a ghost town.

Everyone in West Virginia, hide your couches! This makes their loss against Pitt even more baffling.

Actually it hadn't been brought up at all and I hadn't read anything of the sort until I just did a quick Google search to confirm what you claimed and you are right. Really stupid rule. On the other hand though even if the rule didn't exist odds are the Rose Bowl would have stuck with tradition.

Hawaii simply isn't as good as Boise State was last year or Utah was in 2004 and they are running into a team that was playing probably better than anyone by the end of the year. The Rose Bowl really should have dumped the tradition nonsense this year and picked Georgia over Illinois.

It's 42-10, time for the human interest stories! Unless you have Vince Young at quarterback you just can't fuck with USC in bowl games it seems.

Poor Edwin. That was quite the choke job by UVA.

Ouch, UVA fumbles inside their own 5 while protecting a seven point lead with three minutes left. Texas Tech ties it up on the next play.

Yeesh the Gator Bowl is almost half empty. Graham Harrell has now thrown two intentional groundings in the endzone for safties.

The refs completely screwed up that sequence. No way they got the first down and should have added about 6 to 8 seconds if it supposedly was a first down. And how would replay confirm it? Well none of it matters, interception salts it away for the Vols.