Prediction Time

My prediction for tonight's Holiday Bowl between Nebraska and Arizona:

NEBRASKA - 24
ARIZONA - 10

Suh will get 3 sacks. The defense will get 5 take aways. Zac Lee will throw a couple interceptions and Cody Green will see a lot of playing time, especially in the 2nd half. We will see a lot more of the power running game with long drives by Nebraska. Player of the game: Rex Burkhead. All of the Nebraska TD's will be scored on the ground.

New Season

Tonight begins a new season for the Creighton Bluejays. They will host the preseason Valley favorite UNI Panthers at the Qwest Center. The team needs to forget the non-conference teams, the non-conference record and resume's and begin the season fresh tonight. They are not going to the NCAA Tournament if they don't win in St. Louis. Period. Game 1 is tonight and you have 18 games to A) find a leader on the team, B) get back to playing Creighton basketball, C) play for a good seed in the MVC Tournament, D) learn how to finish games and especially learn how to play on the road.

The season starts tonight at the Qwest Center against UNI at 7:05. You can hear game on The Mighty Big Sports 590. Pregame coverage begins with the McGough Law Bluejay Report with Action 3 News Sports Director Travis Justice at 5:30.

Bowl Games Are Boring

I'm not a fan of bowl games. I think they are boring. The only bowl game that is good to watch is the national championship game because they are playing for something. Every other game (including the rest of the BCS games) are pointless. The only good thing about them is that it's football. The teams are not playing for anything. They're playing so that their conference and university can get some money. That's it. Oh yeah, the best thing about the bowl game is not even the game itself, but the extra practices that the teams get in December.

Some of the teams don't want to be there. Some of the teams are disappointed with the bowl that they are at. The teams that are most excited to be in a bowl game (besides Alabama and Texas) are the small conference schools that treat a bowl game trip like it's their national championship game (and they should).

Will I watch a Tuesday night bowl game between two mediocre schools. You bet . . . because it's football. But that doesn't mean that I will enjoy it.