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Crib Sheet: Prizes Inside!

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It’s that time of year again.  The time to hand out awards for special play by special players.  The Big 12 awards popped out and there were a couple surprises.  The one that jumps out at me is the ‘All-purpose’ award for Kansas State’s Collin Klein.  Was that ever used before in the past?  It seems like they cooked it up just for Klein.  I mean, he’s no Heisman winner, but he was the most important person on the team for the Wildcats.  I guess as a Kansas State fan, I’ll take what I can get.  You have to take what you can get with this week’s Crib Sheet as well, so lets’ get doling:

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Bowl Pick It and Stick It 2011: 6 and 8 Split

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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.

College, Football, News

Crib Sheet: The Chips Have Fallen Into the Bowls

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The teams have been announced that cards played out on the table.  The big hand is lame this year but the side bets are sexier.  That’s right the regular season is over and now we are flipping over to bowl season.  There were some snubs as usual, but the Big 12 lineup of bowls still looks pretty strong.  The Cotton Bowl is right up there with the BCS bowls in terms of interesting match ups.  Kansas State vs Arkansas, or Big 12 vs SEC, like it should be.  Call your bets and flop on over to this week’s Crib Sheet.

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Pick It Standings 2011 Week 14: The Final Placement

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It’s the final, final week of Pick It and Stick It (more on that in a couple of weeks).  Did I produce a herculean effort much like Oklahoma State over the weekend to jump into the third place?  Or did I hang off the edge and shed a bucket full of crocodile tears?  We’ll find out soon enough.  We also found out how the BCS system works in fine detail, speaking of Oklahoma State.  Now that the regular season Pick It and Stick It is over, we are kicking up the Bowl Pick It and Stick It, with a twist you may be familiar with.  All that and more inside.

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PIck It and Stick It 2011 Week 14: The Final Flingdown

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Yessir, it’s the last regular season week of college football!  We have tons of conference championships, but we also have a fairly stacked Big 12 schedule.  I’m sure that won’t happen as soon as they conference actually goes back to 12, but it’s nice to enjoy Farmageddon and Bedlam while the title games are going on.  Bedlam is bigger, though, and I’m pulling for a major breakthrough for Oklahoma State so they can go the BCS National Championship Game.  Much like I’m pulling for a miracle in the picks this week.  I’m not asking for much, just for third place.  So let’s find out what the picks are:

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Barspotting: Little Woodrow’s

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It’s the final week of Barspotting for the 2011 year!  Yeah, I could go to some bowl games, but the way the BCS National Championship Game is turning out, I may just skip the whole shebang.  But who knows, I may be doing a little Bowlspotting with the Kansas State Wildcats if they find their way down here in Texas again.  In the meantime, Little Woodrow’s is on the list.  I’m not doing the 6th Street variety, but the one out in south Austin.  I’m ending the year the way I started it:  Doing a family friendly sports bar and playing some backyard games.  It should be fantastic.

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Pick It Standings 2011 Week 13: Locked Shut Early

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We have one more week to go, but things are pretty much locked up by now.  On the Pick It and Stick It side, Bryce Brown for Heisman pretty much has it locked up.  BCS wise, it looks like the heavens and earth have shaken and bubbled up a rematch between LSU and Alabama for the BCS National Championship Game.  Ugh.  At least for the BCS there is an outside chance for Oklahoma State to throw a wrench into the gears.  So let’s take a look at the standings for the next to last time this year.

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Chilling Out After Being Stuffed

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Man I”m chilling here in the ole home office watching some old episodes of Doctor Who and reflecting on the long holiday weekend that was in college football.  I didn’t go anywhere and opted to be completely lazy.  Turkey day was a smash and I ended up falling asleep pretty fast on the couch.  The NFL games were exciting for once.  But there were two full days of college football that I had to watch.  I’m not sure I remember much so I’ll be short and sweet on this.

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Pick It and Stick It 2011 Week 13: Plucking One Out

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Ho man, am I stuffed.  I never thought that I would be as stuffed as I was away from the family on the Thanksgiving as I am now.  I know for certain that Thanksgiving is one of the best holidays out there now.  Family is really getting together with friends and loved ones.  Thanksgiving is a reason to get together with family and totally gorge yourself.  I need to hit the gym pronto but first I will go over the Pick It and Stick It for this week.  It’s some doozies and I mostly excited that great games come one after the other.  It was like the second, third, and fourth helpings for me on Thanksgiving.  Here’s the pick set:

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Thankspotting: Home Away From Home For The Holidays

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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.

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Crib Sheet: Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving

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And all through the house, pumpkin pie was baking and I was aroused (with hunger).  Yup, it’s that time of year again.  This year, I’m planning on laying back and actually watching some competitive football.  For once it will be both for the NFL and college football.  So there’s been a feast of news leading up to turkey day and I wrapped it up in a big ole slice of Crib Sheet.  It’s kinda like fish and chips, but with college football news and less of stink.  I hope.  Here is this week’s fresh Crib Sheet:

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Pick It Standings 2011 Week 12: Whoops

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Yeah the party lasted all through the weekend and I didn’t make a single pick.  No, it wasn’t having the worst week ever, it was the fact that I never put picks in.  It could be the fact a my buddy was in town and we were too busy sightseeing.  Or it could be that I just didn’t have an internet connection.  Whatever it was, I didn’t get the picks in.  Oh well, that’s why we have 2 dropped weeks.  Will I be able to come back and compete for the league title?  Let’s looks at the standings: Continue reading Pick It Standings 2011 Week 12: Whoops →

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Pick It and Stick It 2011 Week 11: Saucy Selections

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Oh yeah!  I’m already thinking about what to do for the tailgating experience this weekend.  I’m not sure if we actually have a spot to smoke some meat so we may be grilling guerilla style.  What does that mean?  Slapping some meat in a backpack and finding some friendlies for grilling.  It should be quite the adventure.  Speaking of adventure, the corner has turned for Bryce Brown for Heisman.  It’s up to the rest of the league to catch up.  Let’s take a look at the pick set: Continue reading Pick It and Stick It 2011 Week 11: Saucy Selections →

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Stadiumspotting: Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium

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Alrighty, I’ve been waiting for this all year.  This week Kansas States heads to my new hometown in Austin to take on the Texas Longhorns at Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.  It’s going to be another epic battle because that’s what the Wildcats to me and my heart.  The spread is 10 points in Texas favor.  I don’t know why but I’m okay with that.  Kansas State have been underdogs all year around.  Amongst the gamesmanship, this will be my first trip to the stadium.  I’m very curious how the Longhorns treat visitors as well as how they whole football experience stacks up there. It’s gonna be a great time.

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Pick It Standings 2011 Week 11: No Trophy For You

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Another week and another undefeated goes down.  Stanford just didn’t have the offense that Oregan has and now the Ducks are back in the BCS Championship talks.  Will they quack in there?  We’ll see that in the BCS Standings.  Nobody was undefeated in the Pick It and Stick It but I was dumb enough to forget to put my picks in for the morning game.  I think I came out alright but I do not forsee a way into the title just yet.  I’m going to need some major help.  Let’s look at the standings:

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