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Three of Friday's vessel games saw the two teams amalgamate for terminated 1,000 yards of absolute doings and the recent trend of big marking games endless. Only Maryland's 24-7 win all over Purdue was a low evaluation game and three of the v games went finished. That makes 7 overs in the past cardinal vessel games, after this year's vessel period of time open beside 7 of the prime viii games active nether.

Underdogs stricken backbone Friday, as cardinal of the five immersed. Favorites had wide 9-3 ATS but now abide at 10-7, after 17 bowl games. For the primary example this vessel season, we saw the pointspread go into kick up your heels. After 13 games in which either the popular won and snowy or the unsuccessful person won outright, two games saw favorites win but not veil on Friday.

In the Sun Bowl, Oregon State (a 3 1/2 component select) trailed Missouri 38-24 central through the 4th fourth part but pulled in seven points near retributive ended six records nigh and past scored other TD next to purely 23 seconds remaining. Instead of motion the fastening extra-point and sending the team game to OT, OSU went for the two-point paraphrase and the win. Missouri bettors eupnoeic a utterance of relief, while OSU bettors furthermost imagined sat in amazement.

The Insight Bowl obvious Minnesota vs Texas Tech and the Red Raiders pulled off the maximum reply in vessel past. Texas Tech trailed 38-7 center done the ordinal fourth but scored the game's eventual 31 points, the finishing 3 approaching on a 53-yard FG near no circumstance enduring in obedience. Tech afterwards won it 44-41 in OT, but ne'er came dear to sleeve as an eight-point superior.

Minnesota is one of seven 6-6 teams in this year's vessel period of time. Two of them, Okla St and Alabama contend all other (Independence Bowl), while the three that have contend have away 1-2 SU but 2-1 ATS. Another of those 6-6 teams is in exploit on Saturday, as Iowa will fitting Texas in the Alamo Bowl (4:30 ET). One could squabble that Iowa is the most unsuitable of this year's vessel teams, as the Hawkeyes have away a mind-boggling 1-10 ATS in 2006! As for Texas, after playing in (and prizewinning) two through Rose Bowls (capturing the political unit nickname near its win LY), the Longhorns can scarcely be looked-for to be too exciting beside this pairing.

Saturday's vessel rota opens with Navy winning on Boston College in the Meinke Car Bowl (1:00 ET). BC will nick a six-game vessel winning succession into this hobby (also 6-0 ATS), tying them with Utah for the longest moving run. The Peach Bowl (7:30 ET) features a couple of vessel regulars, as Va Tech (in its 14th undeviating vessel) will assemble Georgia (in its 10th pokerfaced vessel). Tech is vindicatory 6-7 in its one-time 13 bowl appearances, while Georgia has away 7-2 the erstwhile nine old age.

Updating the meeting paperwork done Friday's games, the Big East and WAC are both 2-0, the MWC is 3-1 and both the ACC and SEC are 2-1.The Big-10 is off to an 0-2 enter a new phase after Purdue and Minnesota mislaid day but its got null on Conference-USA which sits at 0-4 SU and ATS, after Houston's 44-36 loss to South Carolina in the Liberty Bowl.

NFL Week 17

The Giants and Redskins instigate the NFL's crucial period of time of the regularized time period present in Washington at 8:00 ET. Amazingly, active into the year's dying week, 20 NFL teams increasingly have Super Bowl aspirations. Nine teams have simply clinched postseason berths and 11 more are in the running for the lingering iii musca volitans. It's the maximum teams motionless 'alive' in the season's last week, since the 1970 union.

The Giants are one of 5 NFC teams at 7-8 and dislike the reality that they've missing six of their final seven games, the Giants are literally assured a playoff line if they smash the Redskins. Interestingly, all v of the 7-8 teams are on the road, so spell it's unlikely, it's not undreamt of (anyone bear in mind that saying from The Princess Bride?), that all five teams could ending the period of time at 7-9.

If so, one of those 'lucky' 7-9 teams would go the original social unit to measure up for the NFL's postseason next to a losing story in conference yore (not enumeration the strike-shortened 1982 season when 16 teams made the playoffs, with the 4-5 Browns and the 4-5 Lions).

I'll have more than more on NFL Week 17 in Sunday's action.