Here is the schedule of the 2008-09 college football bowl games. I will be updating the scores as the games are played.

Schedule template courtesy of Fang’s Bites. Here’s the list of broadcasters for the games from Awful Announcing.

Date	Game	Stadium & City	Network	Time
12/20	EagleBank Bowl Wake Forest 29 Navy 19	RFK Stadium Washington, DC		11am
12/20	New Mexico Bowl Colorado State 40 Fresno State 35	University Stadium Albuquerque, NM		2:30pm
12/20	magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl South Florida 41 Memphis 14	Tropicana Field St. Petersburg, FL		4:30pm
12/20	Las Vegas Bowl Arizona 31 BYU 21	Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas, NV		8pm
12/21	R + L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Southern Miss 30 Troy 27	Superdome New Orleans, LA		8pm
12/23	Poinsettia Bowl TCU 17 Boise State 16	Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, CA		8pm
12/24	Hawai’i Bowl Notre Dame 49 Hawaii 21	Aloha Stadium Honolulu, HI		8pm
12/26	Motor City Bowl Florida Atlantic 24 Central Michigan 21	Ford Field Detroit, MI		8pm
12/27	Meineke Car Care Bowl West Virginia 31 North Carolina 30	Bank of America Stadium Charlotte, NC		1pm
12/27	Champs Sports Bowl Florida State 42 Wisconsin 13	Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL		4:30pm
12/27	Emerald Bowl California 24 Miami 17	AT&T Park San Francisco, CA		8pm
12/28	Independence Bowl Louisiana Tech 17 Northern Illinois 10	Independence Stadium Shreveport, LA		8pm
12/29	PapaJohns.com Bowl Rutgers 29 N.C. State 23	Legion Field Birmingham, AL		3pm
12/29	Alamo Bowl Missouri 30 Northwestern 23	Alamodome San Antonio, TX		8pm
12/30	Humanitarian Bowl Maryland 42 Nevada 35	Bronco Stadium Boise, ID		4:30pm
12/30	Holiday Bowl Oregon 42 Oklahoma State 31	Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, CA		8pm
12/30	Texas Bowl Rice 38 Western Michigan 14	Reliant Stadium Houston, TX		8pm
12/31	Armed Forces Bowl Houston 34 Air Force 28	Amon Carter Stadium Fort Worth, TX		12pm
12/31	Sun Bowl Oregon State 3 Pittsburgh 0	Sun Bowl Stadium El Paso, TX		2pm
12/31	Music City Bowl Vanderbilt 16 Boston College 14	LP Field Nashville, TN		3:30pm
12/31	Insight Bowl Kansas 42 Minnesota 21	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ		5:30pm
12/31	Chick-Fil-A Bowl LSU 38 Georgia Tech 3	Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA		7:30pm
1/1	Outback Bowl Iowa 31 South Carolina 10	Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL		11am
1/1	Gator Bowl Nebraska 26 Clemson 21	Jacksonville Municipal Stadium Jacksonville, FL		1pm
1/1	Capital One Bowl Georgia 24 Michigan 12	Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL		1pm
1/1	Rose Bowl USC 38 Penn State 24	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA		4:30pm
1/1	Orange Bowl Virginia Tech 20 Cincinnati 7	Dolphin Stadium Miami, FL		8:30pm
1/2	Cotton Bowl Ole Miss 47 Texas Tech 34	Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX		2pm
1/2	Liberty Bowl Kentucky 25 East Carolina 19	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN		5pm
1/2	Sugar Bowl Utah 31 Alabama 17	Superdome New Orleans, LA		8pm
1/3	International Bowl UConn 38 Buffalo 20	Rogers Centre Toronto, ON		12pm
1/5	Fiesta Bowl Texas 24 Ohio State 21	University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, AZ		8pm
1/6	GMAC Bowl Tulsa 45 BallState 13	Ladd-Peebles Stadium Mobile, AL		8pm
1/8	BCS National Championship Florida 24 Oklahoma 14	Dolphin Stadium Miami, FL		8pm

I don’t know about you but whenever I try to watch a Boise State football game on the blue turf, my eyes go nuts trying to adjust to the color of the blue field.

Well now we have our second blue turf field and it’s been installed right in my backyard. The University of New Haven recently reinstated their football program and when they make their debut again next season, they too will be playing on blue turf field at Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium.

The Chargers used to be a Division II independent team back in the day and now will be a member of the NE-10.

The field is located on UNH’s North Campus and was put in on the old soccer field. The soccer teams along with the women’s lacrosse team now play at Kayo Field.

For more about the blue turf field, head over to the NCAA.org.

This will be the second-to-last Tidbits From the College Gridiron post until the 2008 season starts. The last one will come in February when the recruits send in their letter-of-intent to the schools they plan to call home in the fall.

If you were under a rock last night, you missed LSU rallying from a 10-0 deficit to win the BCS National Championship 38-24 over The Ohio State Buckeyes. LSU became the first team in the BCS era to take home the title two times. They are also the first school with two losses to win it.

As my brother said in a previous comment, the Hawai’i Warriors will be looking for a new coach next season as June Jones has decided to comeback to the mainland to coach the SMU Mustangs. He was offered a 5-year deal that is worth $10 million. The main reason for Jones leaving due to the poor facilities at Hawai’i and the lack of a big recruiting budget. Most of their recruiting is done by word-of-mouth and the players actually coming to visit them. Hawai’i did make a last ditch effort to keep Jones and even offered him a contract that would have doubled his salary to $1.6 million. In the end, Jones wanted a new challenge and settled on the SMU job and hopes to bring them back to the national scene.

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Heading into the BCS Championship game tonight featuring LSU and Ohio State, here is how the SOX & Dawgs Bowl Contest stands.

Sue 18-13
BenA 17-14
Sam 17-14
Ladd 17-14
Steve 17-14
Chip 16-15
Keith 16-15
Al 16-15
Burney 15-16
Jason 15-16
Boomer 14-17
Ian 13-18
Bryan 12-19

The way it stands right now is that everyone with 17 wins has picked LSU with the exception of Sam who picked Ohio State. Sue, at 18 wins and who happens to be my mother, can clinch her second straight Bowl Contest victory with an LSU win. However an Ohio State win will tie Sam with her and then the tiebreaker of points will go into effect.

27 bowl games down, 5 more to go. Here is a look at the standings as we head down the home stretch here. You can see everyone’s picks by clicking here.

Steve 16-11
Ladd 15-12
Sam 15-12
BenA 15-12
Sue 14-13
Chip 14-13
Al 13-14
Keith 13-14
Burney 13-14
Jason 12-15
Ian 11-16
Bryan 11-16
Boomer 10-17

One of the Big East’s premier football schools, the West Virginia Mountaineers, will be looking for a new head coach as Rich Rodriguez has decided to take the gig at Michigan.

The Wolverines have been without a head coach since the Monday after their loss to Ohio State when Lloyd Carr decided to retire. They had tried to hire Les Miles away from LSU and Greg Schiano from Rutgers. Most recently, UConn’s head coach Randy Edsall had been rumored to be a candidate for the job as well.

The big question that lies ahead for Michigan is will Rodriguez bring his vaunted spread-option offense to Ann Arbor. He is a master of that offense and led the Mountaineers to 60-26 record in 7 years, including three straight 10-win seasons and two trips to BCS Bowls.

The Mountaineers were ranked #2 in the nation and had a chance to play in the BCS National Championship game with a win over Pittsburgh but the Panthers pulled off an upset and cost West Virginia a trip to New Orleans. Instead they will head to Phoenix to play in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma.

It’s not known yet whether or not Rodriguez will coach the Moutaineers in the Fiesta Bowl. Carr will coach his final game for the Wolverines in the Capital One Bowl against Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and the Florida Gators.

University of Hawai’i quarterback Colt Brennan came into Saturday night’s matchup with the Fresno State Bulldogs needing two touchdown passes to tie Ty Detmer’s record of 121. Brennan had already broken the Hawai’i record of Timmy Chang, who had 117 career touchdown passes.

Needing two touchdown passes to tie and three to pass Detmer, Brennan got things started quickly in the game as he threw a 67-yard TD pass to Jason Rivers just a 1:26 into the game to move within one. With 11:26 to go in the first half, Brennan tied Detmer’s record as he hit favorite target Devone Bess for a 5-yard scoring strike.

Fresno State would keep the Warriors out of the end zone the rest of the game and knocked Brennan out of the game with a concussion. For the game, Brennan was 28 of 39 for 396 yards with 2 touchdown passes and 1 interception. He also had a rushing TD. Brennan has thrown 28 touchdown passes on the season.

Look for Brennan to break the record this Friday night, as the Warriors travel to Reno, NV to take on the Nevada Wolfpack at 11:00 PM ET on ESPN2. See all you favorite teams on satellite dish tv! You will be able to see the sweat on the helmets! See for yourself, find the best satellite tv with InternetLion!

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Sorry for the delay on the college football news update. I’ve been busy working out some kinks in the new WordPress upgrade.

After a brawl on Saturday night between North Carolina Central and North Carolina A&T players, the heads of the schools traded apologies for what had happened. It took pepper spray and police and the coaches a few minutes to break up the melee.

It seems as though a lot of college football players are having run-ins with the law lately. Geno Hayes, a linebacker for the Florida State Seminoles, was arrested last Friday when he was involved in an altercation outside a bar. He was temporarily suspended from the team and has now lost his starting spot as he was demoted to the second team.

Michigan defensive end Brandon Graham had a warrant issued for his arrest after he missed a court hearing for a disorderly conduct charge from July 24th. After appearing in court on Wednesday, the charges were dropped.

Iowa State officials were looking for a new look to their uniforms and helmets so they let their fans vote on which one to choose. Voting ended and the fans made their choice. To see the new look, head over to the Cyclones web page by clicking here.

Former Arkansas coach Danny Nutt has been ordered by the SEC to stay out of the coaching booth. Nutt had resigned due to some health issues but since has gotten better. Because he was replaced, he has no official capacity with the team other than the fact that his brother Houston is the coach. The SEC has limits on how many coaches can be in the booth.
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It’s that time people. College football gets underway tonight at 7 pm ET at various venues around the country. As you’re watching these games, you will notice a few things different from last season as far as some rules go.

The first thing that the NCAA changed was where teams kicked the ball off from. In previous years, college kickers were kicking off from their own 35-yard line. Now, they will be kicking from their 30-yard line like they do in the NFL. The reason being the NCAA wanted to create a little excitement rather than watching kickers boom the ball through the end zone. The one thing to watch for is kick returners being injured. The more kickoffs in play, the bigger the likelihood of an injury.

Remember that awful rule of last year where the clock started right away on kickoffs and then again as soon the ball was set after kickoffs or change of possessions. The NCAA threw that rule out the door. The reason being there was an average of 14 less plays a game in 2006 from 2005. Plus, it created a mess at times. If you had the lead at the end of the game, you could easily milk the clock or if teams were trailing, you would see a full dead-on sprint right after the ball was set. Now the clock will start when the receiving team gets the ball on kickoffs and then again when the quarterback snaps the ball.

The times on the playclock were altered a little bit as far as certain situations go. Coming out of a TV timeout, teams will have 15 seconds to snap the ball rather than the usual 25 seconds. The play clock on kickoffs will start as soon as the kicker is handed the ball.

And there is one final rule change. Charged timeouts will now only be 30 secs while TV timeouts will remain the same at 1 minute. Although it does seem like TV timeouts can last like 10 minutes. If you are at a game and you see the guy dressed in red on the field, it’s a television timeout.

I like the changes, especially the starting of the clock. It was ridiculous to see how much time was wasted during a game. As a fan, I want to see as much action as I could get. Also the kickoff rule is an interesting one as you will see how good many special teams are or aren’t. This may also change the recruiting a little as you are going to want the best return guys to help get your team in good field position.

It’s going to be a fun entertaining season of college football this season.

Emmanuel Moody, who decided to transfer from USC due to lack of expected playing time, has decided to transfer to the defending champion Florida Gators. Moody will enroll this semester and per NCAA regulations, will have to sit out this season. He will become eligible next year.

Arkansas defensive end was arrested Friday night on felony drug charges. Police found marijuana and one Ecstasy pill in his car. He has been suspended indefinitely by Razorbacks coach Houston Nutt.

South Carolina quarterback Blake Mitchell had his one game suspension upheld by South Carolina AD Eric Hyman. Mitchell had been suspended for missing too many classes during the summer session. Bobby Wallace and Chris Hail were also suspended for the same reasons.

USC will be without the services of starting running back Chauncey Washington and backup quarterback Mark Sanchez for their opener against Idaho. Both were injured during a preseason scrimmage. It shouldn’t really hurt the Trojans as they are 45-point favorites.

According to a source at the University of Texas, the Board of Regents at the school will give head coach Mack Brown a contract extension and a raise. The extension will add another 10 years on his contract and should put him in the $3 million a year range. Back in 2005, Brown had signed a 10 year extension worth $2.6 a year, with a $100,000 raise each year.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban has suspended starting wide receiver Keith Brown and starting linebacker Prince Hall for a violation of team rules. The pair will be suspended for their season opener against Western Carolina.

The University of Texas Longhorns will be without their speedy receiver Billy Pittman for their opener against Arkansas State. Pittman is sidelined with a shoulder injury. The good news is that star receiver Limas Sweed should be able to play despite a sprained wrist.

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