34 Questions for 34 Bowls: A Single Offering
Seeing as though I'm typing this while Rutgers and North Carolina State are playing, I guess you could say our bowl preview coverage here at ITB has been reduced to 33 questions for 34 bowl game. I apologize to the entire state of New Jersey, but it being the Holidays and all maybe they'll find it within their limits to forgive me. Nevertheless the bowl questions role on, with Northwestern battling Missouri in the
Valero Alamo Bowl (8 PM ET, ESPN) tonight. Here are my thoughts...
Who has more to play for? We all know Missouri has not exactly lived up to expectations this season. They may have made it into the Big 12 Title game, but the Tigers failed to challenge for a National Title as expected, being drilled on national TV by heavyweights Texas and Oklahoma while losing in disappointing in Border War showing to Kansas. I want to see how Missouri- in particular quarterback Chase Daniel(s)- responds after losing their last two, and how the team plays in the last game for OC Dave Christensen, who takes the Wyoming head coaching job after tonight. They are going to need to come into this game focused if they're going to beat even a less talented Northwestern team, which has a shot at a 10-win season for the first time since 1995, when current head coach Pat Fitzgerald led a ferocious Wildcat defense to the Rose Bowl.
