It’s become a tradition to bake at least on pizza every year on Football Feedings. Pizza is the ultimate canvas to plaster up some food art. This week is the week and we’ve got something special cooked up for ya this time. Kansas State is hosting Oklahoma State so we decided to do up a little thing called Cowboy Frontier Pizza. There’s no campfire involved but there will be some nitrates, that’s for sure. Continue reading Football Feedings 2014 Week 10: Cowboy Frontier Pizza
Yes, it’s bowl season and I’ve got a hankering for one more Bowl Pick It and Stick It. This time bowling is more exciting for me outside of the BCS Bowls. Part of it is the fact that Kansas State got jipped out of an appearance at the Sugar Bowl, but the other part is that the line up BCS wise is just not interesting enough. The Sugar and the Orange are lame. The BCS National Championship Game is a rematch of boredom. The Fiesta and Rose look good but the overall product leaves me underwhelmed. That’s what I’m stoked for the Cotton Bowl. It’s non BCS and has a top 10 BCS match up with Kansas State taking on Arkansas. SEC vs Big 12. Hell yeah. Click on through for the Bowl Pick It and Stick It information.
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So here’s the rest of the bowl line up:
| Bowl | Location | Date/Time | Network |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gildan New Mexico Temple vs. Wyoming |
Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium |
Dec. 17 2 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Ohio vs. Utah State |
Boise, Idaho Bronco Stadium |
Dec. 17 5:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| R+L Carriers New Orleans San Diego State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette |
New Orleans Mercedes-Benz Superdome |
Dec. 17 9 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg Florida International vs. Marshall |
St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field |
Dec. 20 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
| S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia TCU vs. Louisiana Tech |
San Diego Qualcomm Stadium |
Dec. 21 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
| MAACO Las Vegas Arizona State vs. Boise State |
Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium |
Dec. 22 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Sheraton Hawaii Nevada vs. Southern Miss |
Honolulu Aloha Stadium |
Dec. 24 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
| AdvoCare V100 Independence Missouri vs. North Carolina |
Shreveport, La. Independence Stadium |
Dec. 26 5 p.m. |
ESPN2 |
| Little Caesars Western Michigan vs. Purdue |
Detroit Ford Field |
Dec. 27 4:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Belk Louisville vs. NC State |
Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium |
Dec. 27 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman Toledo vs. Air Force |
Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium |
Dec. 28 4:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Bridgepoint Education Holiday California vs. Texas |
San Diego Qualcomm Stadium |
Dec. 28 8 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Champs Sports Florida State vs. Notre Dame |
Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl |
Dec. 29 5:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Valero Alamo Washington vs. Baylor |
San Antonio Alamodome |
Dec. 29 9 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Bell Helicopter Armed Forces BYU vs. Tulsa |
Dallas Gerald J. Ford Stadium |
Dec. 30 Noon |
ESPN |
| New Era Pinstripe Rutgers vs. Iowa State |
Bronx, N.Y. Yankee Stadium |
Dec. 30 3:20 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Franklin American Mortgage Music City Mississippi State vs. Wake Forest |
Nashville, Tenn. LP Field |
Dec. 30 6:40 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Insight Iowa vs. Oklahoma |
Tempe, Ariz. Sun Devil Stadium |
Dec. 30 10 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Meineke Car Care of Texas Texas A&M vs. Northwestern |
Houston Reliant Stadium |
Dec. 31 Noon |
ESPN |
| Hyundai Sun Georgia Tech vs. Utah |
El Paso, Texas Sun Bowl |
Dec. 31 2 p.m. |
CBS |
| AutoZone Liberty Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt |
Memphis, Tenn. Liberty Bowl |
Dec. 31 3:30 p.m. |
ABC |
| Kraft Fight Hunger Illinois vs. UCLA |
San Francisco AT&T Park |
Dec. 31 3:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Chick-fil-A Virginia vs. Auburn |
Atlanta Georgia Dome |
Dec. 31 7:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| TicketCity Houston vs. Penn State |
Dallas Cotton Bowl |
Jan. 2 Noon |
ESPNU |
| Outback Michigan State vs. Georgia |
Tampa, Fla. Raymond James Stadium |
Jan. 2 1 p.m. |
ABC |
| Capital One Nebraska vs. South Carolina |
Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl |
Jan. 2 1 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl Ohio State vs. Florida |
Jacksonville, Fla. EverBank Field |
Jan. 2 1 p.m. |
ESPN2 |
| Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio Wisconsin vs. Oregon |
Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl |
Jan. 2 5 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Tostitos Fiesta Stanford vs. Oklahoma State |
Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium |
Jan. 2 8:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Allstate Sugar Michigan vs. Virginia Tech |
New Orleans Louisiana Superdome |
Jan. 3 8:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Discover Orange West Virginia vs. Clemson |
Miami Sun Life Stadium |
Jan. 4 8:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
| AT&T Cotton Kansas State vs. Arkansas |
Arlington, Texas Cowboys Stadium |
Jan. 6 8 p.m. |
FOX |
| BBVA Compass Bowl SMU vs. Pittsburgh |
Birmingham, Ala. Legion Field |
Jan. 7 1 p.m. |
ESPN |
| GoDaddy.com Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois |
Mobile, Ala. Ladd-Peebles Stadium |
Jan. 8 9 p.m. |
ESPN |
| Allstate BCS National Championship Game No. 1 LSU vs. No. 2 Alabama |
New Orleans Louisiana Superdome |
Jan. 9 8:30 p.m. |
ESPN |
Remember it’s a straight up pick but you can rank your confidence from 1 to 35. What other bowls are interesting you ask? Well, let’s start with the Big 12. Baylor and Washington look good for the Alamo Bowl, thanks to Robert Griffin III’s Hesiman win. Oklahoma playing Iowa for the first time in forever in the Insight Bowl sees Sooner head coach Bob Stoops head to his alma mater. What other games look good? How about the Outback Bowl with Georgia taking on Michigan State, another version of the BCS snub bowl. That’s about it for me. The others are decent but they just don’t jump out to me. Come back every Monday from here on out, though and we’ll go over the picks.
Last week was rough. For lots of reasons. Tailgating as hard as I did last weekend has left some lingering effects. There’s also a sprinkle of great games from Thursday through Saturday. So I decided that this week, it will be some major home spectating. It’s a weird week for me anyway because this is the first Thanksgiving I’ve had away from home. Hopefully I won’t miss Mom’s stuffing too much. Let’s check out the games.
Continue reading Thankspotting: Home Away From Home For The Holidays
It’s BBQ week for KC College GameDay! There’s plenty of sports bars out there, but every once in awhile you gotta go out and get some home cooking that only BBQ’s can provide. I think we are going to cook up the world famous BBQ cheesy corn not sure yet. But we are also going to cook up some college football. Now, we could run out to a bar earlier in the day, but games really suck. It’s all for the night time for me. So let us see what is so special about the night time as well as the other games for this weekend.
Last week it was reported that West Virginia was going to Big 12, and now it is official. There was some late swinging by Louisville to take their place but in the end West Virginia won out. I guess when politicians get involved, it can turn ugly. Louisville isn’t out the race yet. When the Big 12 looks to expand here in a couple of years, they will be next on the list. The next best thing to politicing is lawyering (he says sarcastically). West Virginia won the former and is now pushing the latter by suing the Big East on the grounds that the conference and their commissioner is crappy. I say they have a case. On to the Crib Sheet:
It’s high time to duke it out on the field for dominance on the college football landscape. The unbeatens will dwindle down here real soon, if not this weekend, and it’s everyone team for themselves. Please remember, however, by fighting I mean actually playing tough football. I do not mean actually fighting the opposing players. It seems in the last couple of weeks some players have been confused and took to fisticuffs. Heck 41 players are suspended because of a big brawl that happened last weekend. Please, when you go out there fight well in terms of football, not Mortal Kombat. Now, it’s time to go over the Pick It and Stick It and look for some fatalities. Finish Him!
Continue reading Pick It and Stick It 2011 Week 08: Ready, Flick, Fight!
We may be seeing the search for Missouri end real quick. We also may see the search for the Big 12 heat right up. The Tigers are planning on leaving for the SEC and we may know about it here by tomorrow. Alot of people, including myself, thought that they would wait unilt the end of the season to get the ball rolling but apparently they want to move fast. So in the middle of the football season, we will see even more conference realignment. I’m just going to avert my eyes from the pain and check out this week’s Crib Sheet:
I have to say I’m a little giddy at the news that TCU will be accepting the offer to join the Big 12. Yeah, I know that they turned the gravy train around from the Big East but they are a better fit and I’m sure they were a little shakey about that conference after Pitt and Syracuse decided to leave. Yes, the Big East is in HUGE trouble, and now it’s the Big 12’s turn to take a deep breath and grab a couple of more teams. In fact, I’d say it’s high time for the Big 12 to Pick It and Stick It! Speaking of which, we have another exciting weekend of action on the field and on your pick sets. Let’s go over the list:
Continue reading Pick It and Stick It 2011 Week 06: Pick the Bigger One
Conference play kind of opened up last weekend for the Big 12, but this weekend we have a couple of head to head match ups. I don’t know which game will be more exciting, the Texas vs Iowa State or Kansas State vs Baylor. The obvious is the Kansas State game but if you remember last year, Iowa State went down to Austin and beat the Longhorns. The local media around here is chirping about how it’s a revenge game but the player interviews talk about how they expect to handle Iowa State easily. We’ll find that out Saturday as well as just how real Kansas State’s defense really is. Here’s this week’s Pick It and Stick It: Continue reading Pick It and Stick It 2011 Week 05: Time To Play For Real
Another week of barspotting and I’m going for the trifecta. It’s been 2 great weeks of college football watching and I need one more joint to make me believe that Austin is serious about sports bars. The last two weeks were easy because it was close to downtown. Now it’s time to throw Austin for a loop and go for that ‘remote neighborhood family bar’ joint. Well, I’ve found down south in the Backspin Sports Bar & Grill. Saturday I’ll find out if the remote locations of Austin bring the game like the places closer to the heart of the city do.
Continue reading Barspotting: Laying up to the Backspin Sports Bar & Grill
So the deed is finally done. Texas A&M and the SEC made it official. Now last week, we found out that the Big 12 was staying together. We also found out that Dan Beebe resigned, at the request of Oklahoma and some others. Connected sports guy Chuck Neinas was setup as the interim Big 12 Commissioner. What else? The 1st and 2nd tier television rights are on the table. That’s fine for Texas because the LHN is 3rd tier, noinch! The athletic directors all met and were saying they are committed to keeping the Big 12 alive. Although, it seems Missouri’s foot is still out of the door. Worse yet, the reason Oklahoma wanted the Big 12 to stay alive was because they couldn’t swing a deal with the Pac 12. So is it safe? I guess it is for now. I’ll be certain of it when somebody actually joins the conference instead of leaves it. Until then, here’s another installment of the Crib Sheet: Continue reading Crib Sheet: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
That’s right, I’ll be on a plane shortly but I want to get the picks up for the week. It’s hard to stay focused with the Big 12 in legal gridlock. You know, I thought professional wrestling was soap opera for guys but now I know that college football realignment is the real deal. No offense to the WWE, but this stuff is way better than the scripted stuff I used to watch. So as the conference turn, get your picks in and hope for the best.
Baseball’s right around the corner and I figured the news would be super quiet for college football. Boy was I wrong. There’s tasty chunks of news going around all over the place. I’m done salivating you taste buds, time to feast on this week’s Crib Sheet:
It’s that time of the year people! No, not when we break our backs raking leaves, but the time when the BCS Stadings start coming out! For those of you that follow the blog religiously know that we like to take some time out of the heated Pick It and Stick It Standings to go over the BCS fight as well. We’re in week 7 of the picks and there’s a large gap between #2 and #3. Will it grow or shrink in the weeks to come? Meanwhile, the first BCS Standings show that computers are way smarter than people and they also like surprises too.
Continue reading Pick It Standings Week 07: The BCS Has Arrived
This week’s standings are in and we are still figuring out just how to work the angles. Starting out, it made sense that we made the picks a little more hardcore. Picking just one team over the other seemed way to simple to the kind of fans that lurk around these parts. Oh, we’re glad we set it up the way we did, but we sure are reminded today that we can’t fall asleep at the wheel. The weekly picks by design are supposed to affect the overall but it doesn’t seem that way. Much like Les Miles crazy fake field goal that eventually put LSU over Florida. Pick It and Stick is part design, part luck.
Continue reading Pick It Standings Week 06: Part Design Part Luck