Word: bowle
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...second season of college football starts today, with the first of 19 semi-major or major bowl games--apologies to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the Zia Bowl and others that have already taken place...
...face it--there are 19 bowl games between now and January 17, plus professional football's countdown to the Super Bowl--football is forever. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...
Then there are the no bowls. The only thing post-season college football lacks is its own Pro Bowl--short for probation or undergraduate professionals, whichever you prefer...
Here is a rundown of the bowl games, not including all-star contests. A word of advice about these predictions--don't get bowled over...
Independence Bowl, today, at Shreveport, La.: A powerful 10-1 McNeese State squares off against Southern Mississippi (8-3). Few parts of the country take their football more seriously than Looziana, as the natives pronounce it. McNeese State is one of the schools that has sprung up in the state to steal the thunder of traditional force LSU. Powered by a partisan crowd and rushing offense that racked up nearly 300 yards a game, McNeese State should roll...