Tidbits From the College Gridiron – Bowl Edition

All of the bowl matchups are set for the 2007-08 bowl season.

With Missouri and West Virginia going down last night, obviously they aren’t going to be playing for the National Championship. That honor goes to LSU and Ohio State as they will vie for the title in New Orleans on January 7th, 2008 in the Allstate BCS Championship Game. The rest of the BCS matchups are as follows.

January 1st – Rose Bowl – Illinois vs USC

January 1st – Sugar Bowl – Hawai’i vs Georgia

January 2nd – Fiesta Bowl – Oklahoma vs West Virginia

January 3rd – Orange Bowl – VA Tech vs Kansas

As for me, my favorite team, the UConn Huskies are heading down to Charlotte, NC to take on Wake Forest in the Meineke Car Care Bowl on December 29th. If you are interested in knowing where you’re favorite team is playing, you can click here.

Steve reported earlier today that UConn head coach Randy Edsall has withdrawn his name for the vacant Georgia Tech head coach position and has decided to stay at UConn.

“I announced today at the football banquet, that I’m staying here at the University of Connecticut. I’ll stay here as long as they’d like me to stay. I talked to Jeff (Hathaway). Jeff and Gary O’Hagen and Matt Baldwin, my representation over at IMG, will be getting together to hammer out a contract. It was based on my own family, my son, my wife and my daughter and considerations in terms of my family there and also considerations of my football family, most especially the players here in the program now at the University of Connecticut, and to understand that there’s still quite a bit of work to be done, and I want to continue to do that. We’re working very hard to accomplish that today, even now as I speak.”

The final rankings came out today as well. UConn finished in the others receiving votes category in both the AP and USA Today Poll but did finish 25th in the BCS Standings. This is a huge accomplishment for the Huskies considering they didn’t play this past weekend. Maybe it had to do with the fact that they are the Big East Co-Champions by virtue of West Virginia losing to Pittsburgh last night.

I will have a full recap of UConn football news tomorrow but the final rankings will be available after the jump.

If you hadn’t heard, LSU head coach Les Miles has decided to stay at LSU. Here is his impromptu press conference from yesterday.

He did however lose his defensive coordinator, Bo Pelini, to Nebraska.