Bowl Season Rolls On

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl

Robert Guliano on Why Southern Miss will win: Southern Miss has been to seven bowls in the past seven years. Middle Tennessee State has been to five in the past 53 years, including an embarrassing loss to Sam Houston State in the 1956 Refrigerator Bowl. Can’t make that up.

A modest yet practical refrigerator.

Players to Watch:

3. RB Damion Fletcher- He should cap off a solid season by reaching the 1,000 yard mark in this one.

2. QB Brett Favre- Like any sports writing/broadcasting/talking/betting/breathing person in the past few years, I had to find a way to wiggle in the AARP’s worst nightmare.

1. Anyone but FEMA- The game is in New Orleans, and it’s pretty hard to watch someone that’s not there.

Brandon Hickey on why MTSU will win: When thinking of a name for a school, most universities who are creatively challenged just go with directions: Northern Illinois, South Florida, any MAC school in Michigan. So the bright people of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, decided on Middle Tennessee. Not Central Tennessee or even Murfreesboro State. Middle Tennessee. Could you imagine if other fledgling universities started doing this? We’d have Upper South Carolina, Lower Mississippi, To the Left Arkansas and Somewhere Over There Kentucky. Middle Tennessee, you have started a bad trend. Anyway, the Blue Raiders went 9-3 and are in the Sun Belt, which is the wasteland of college football.

3. RB Craig Heyward-Not that Craig Heyward, for all of you NFL History nuts. The family bloodlines of “Ironhead” Heyward didn’t really reach his son, since he doesn’t play. He’s also a senior and has yet to declare a major. Oh well. College isn’t for everybody.

2. QB Dwight Dasher-You know Dancer, Comet, and Blitzen, but do you recall Dasher? He’s the do-it-all signal-caller for the Blue Raiders. He leads the team in both passing yards (2627) and rushing yards (953)

1. Al Gore-Yep, the nation’s 43^rd President….errr….almost….is a Blue Raider. Southern Miss will feel the heat of global warming and show their team is an inconvenient truth. 

Former VP Al Gore, scowling at polar ice caps.

THE COMPROMISE: Just like global warming is sinking his ice caps, Southern Miss sinks Al Gore's Raiders 16-13.