The major bowls get started in the late afternoon of New Year’s Day, with the kickoff of the Rose Bowl between Michigan State and Stanford (5 PM ET, ESPN). What follows is the Notebook Nine—the nine points to keep in mind, covering everything from personnel matchups, to each team’s season performance arc, to the Las […]
The Rose Bowl features two teams with something to prove, albeit for different reasons. Wisconsin has lost in Pasadena the last two years and, as they drag in with five losses, are looking to avoid a third straight New Year’s Day defeat. Stanford is a hot team with a talented freshman quarterback that might be the best team in the nation if we started a playoff today. The Cardinal are looking to put a seal on their late-season surge. TheSportsNotebook will take a look at the paths both teams traveled to get here and how they match up against each other.
The BCS games start today in the late afternoon and it kicks off with Wisconsin-Oregon in the Rose Bowl (5 PM ET, ABC) as Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit will be on hand to get us started on college football’s showcase games. Let’s look back on the path each team took to get here, and […]