Filed under: Kansas , Mississippi , Big 12 , SEC , Coaching A day after word leaked of mutual interest between Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt and Kansas, the veteran coach said Tuesday he is not interested the Jayhawks job. Nutt, who is in his second season leading the Ole Miss Rebels , said wants to continue building what he has started at Ole Miss. The Rebels have put together back-to-back eight win...
BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Friday, January 1, 2010 - Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi: #7 Oregon (10-2 Pac 10 Champion) vs #8 Ohio State (10-2 Big 10 Champion) (ABC, 4:30 PM) Friday January 1, 2010 - Allstate Sugar Bowl: #5 Florida (12-1, at-large) vs #3 Cincinnati (12-0 Big East Champion) (FOX) Monday, January 4 - Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: #6 Boise State (13-0,WAC Champion, at-large) vs #4 TCU (12-0, MWC...
"Frustrated." "Slighted." "Snubbed." Those awords describe the feelings many Missouri fans, adminstrators, players, and coaches have towards Mizzou's selection to play Navy in the 2008 Texas Bowl. The Texas bowl gets the last pick among the bowls affiliated with the Big XII conference and a 6-6 Iowa State program, a program that 8-4 Missouri beat, got picked ahead of Mizzou...
2060 AP-FBC-Liberty-Bowl,0096 Arkansas to play East Carolina in Liberty Bowl MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Arkansas will be the Southeastern Conference team playing two-time Conference USA champ East Carolina in the Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2. Bowl officials on Sunday confirmed that Arkansas was in. The Razorbacks (7-5) lost to Missouri in the Cotton Bowl in January 2008. East Carolina wrapped up a second...
In this Nov. 19, 1983, file photo, Penn State coach, Joe Paterno, left, and Pittsburgh coach Foge Fazio talk before a college football game in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) In this November 1982 file photo, Pittsburgh football coach Foge Fazio tries on a cowboy hat which Cotton Bowl officials presented to him in Pittsburgh. Behind Fazio are members of the football team. (AP Photo/Keith...
It's just before the start of the Cotton Bowl Classic at Fair Park Stadium in Dallas on the morning of January 1, 1991. The University of Texas Longhorns line up against the University of Miami Hurricanes, the most reviled college football program in the nation. There is not an empty seat.
by Terrance Harris Filed under: Mississippi , Oklahoma State , Big 12 , SEC , Bowl Games The secondary bowls are beginning to get their ducks in a row. Multiple reports out of Dallas Tuesday said the AT&T Cotton Bowl has extended invitations to Oklahoma State and Ole Miss to meet in the Jan. 2 game at Jerry Jones' new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas . The invitation and acceptance will not...
SEC and ACC Bowls are getting progressively more nuts and unpredictable by the minute. Here's the latest: LSU to the Capital One - This is still pretty much a go. Ole Miss to Cotton - Multiple reports including the Dallas Morning News are saying that Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma State is pretty much a done deal for the Cotton Bowl. Auburn to Outback Bowl - The Outback Bowl may officially announce this afternoon...
Alternate headline: "The Outback Bowl is a joke." There's nothing official out there at the moment, but Brent Hubbs at VolQuest ($), among others, is saying that sources close to the process have given indication that the Outback Bowl will select...the Auburn Tigers. As Clay Travis points out , that's the same Auburn that's beaten only Furman and Ole Miss since October 3, a 2-5 stretch that...
Houston Nutt says Ole Miss returning to Cotton Bowl. first back-to-back Jan. bowls in 40 years. Twitter: Ivan Maisel With Ole Miss seemingly in the Cotton, the SEC bowl picture is shaking out. The SEC Championship Game participants will go to the BCSCG / Sugar, LSU to the Capital One Bowl, Ole Miss to the Cotton Bowl, Tennessee / Georgia to the Peach / Outback Bowl, and it will be rounded out by Auburn,...
We could have finally have a true National Champion this year in College Football. Despite all the current chaos, there is an easy solution to sorting this all out. It basically evolves around using the BCS game as a plus one game this year. Don’t be fooled this is absolutely feasible, and a couple people have the power to make it happen. I’m putting this out there now because hopefully...
Tony Fein #47 of the Mississippi Rebels holds the Field Scovell trophy after a win against the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the AT&T Cotton Bowl on January 2, 2009 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. In this Sept. 3, 2009, file photo, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Tony Fein (45) looks on from the bench during a preseason NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta....
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via farm4.static.flickr.com When the Chiefs and Raiders face off on Sunday at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum two of the best players on the field will be the punters. That doesn’t just say something about the lack of talent on both of these rosters as evidenced by their combined record of 3-13. It says something about the punting renaissance that the pro football has experienced over the...
In some strange way, going to the Cotton Bowl rather than the Orange Bowl may have helped Mizzou. Rather than backing into a BCS Bowl Game and possibly letting down, they got screwed and were put in the Cotton Bowl. In response, the Tigers played tough, physical football and destroyed a pretty damn good Arkansas team. They beat LSU that year and I think they would have taken Virginia Tech. They had...