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All iii favorites won and suffused in Thursday's vessel games, as favorites persist to parameter in the 2006-07 vessel time period. Last year, underdogs dominated, but done this year's opening 12 vessel games, favorites have absent 9-3 ATS! So far, the pointspread has not come in into play, as the cardinal favorites that have ruined to protect (Rice, New Mexico and UCLA), have also missing SU.

'Under' bettors got off to a in haste creation by cashing SEVEN of their basic eight acting but the later iv lawn bowling have all away 'over,' with the mean chalk up of those iv games totaling 59.5 PPG. That's more than two TDs per halt higher than the archetypal 8 vessel games, which averaged 44.9 PPG. As I aforesaid on Wednesday, "things renovate exceedingly briskly in this firm."

Fittingly, The Independence Bowl, which featured two 6-6 teams (Okla St and Alabama), saw the game established by a piece of land objective next to eight seconds enduring. Seven "6-6" teams are subdivision of this year's dilated vessel period and besides Alabama and Oklahoma State, New Mexico has just missing to San Jose State with Florida State trouncing UCLA (Wednesday) and avoiding the school's prototypic losing period of time since Bobby Bowden's initial period of time in Tallahassee (1976).

Minnesota is the side by side 6-6 social unit to be in action, as the Gophers drama Texas Tech in Friday night's last game, The Insight Bowl. It's one of SIX vessel games on Friday, which ties January 1 (also next to six games regular), as the busiest day of the vessel period of time. Kentucky and Clemson foundation property off in The Music City Bowl at 1:00 ET, followed by Missouri vs Oregon State in The Sun Bowl, Houston vs South Carolina in The Liberty Bowl, Purdue vs Maryland in The Champs Sports Bowl and finally, Minnesota vs Texas Tech.

In Thursday's two opposite games, Rutgers handled Kansas State 37-10 and Cal ran away from Texas A&M in the 2d half, successful 45-10. The Cal win was a much-needed one for the Pac-10, as in earlier times this bowl season, Oregon, Arizona State and UCLA had squandered by the mutual heaps of 123-59! Oregon State of the Pac-10, show business Missouri on Friday.

Rutgers' win gives the much-maligned Big East a 2-0 mark in vessel dramatic play so far, as USF efficiently took charge of East Carolina final Saturday. The Mountain West Conference, a association that record felt had a "down year" this season, has been especially impressive, tho' all in secondary bowl games. While New Mexico did mislay on its hole field, TCU, BYU and Utah have won their vessel games by the conjunct scores of 100-28. The MWC has no more than teams playing.

The WAC has open 2-0 in vessel dramatic composition this year, beside Hawaii change of integrity San Jose State as earlier winners. The conference inactive has two vessel appearances remaining, as Nevada takes on Miami-Florida on New Year's Eve in Boise and of course, Boise State will cavort Oklahoma on New Year's Day in the Fiesta Bowl.

Conference-USA has gone 0-3 in bowl dramatic composition so far, as Rice, East Carolina and Tulsa have all vanished. Houston represents the association Friday in opposition South Carolina and Southern Miss acting Ohio U in The GMAC Bowl on January 7.

I'll be backbone mean solar day beside much bowl updates and previews, on next to Part 1 of my two-part NFL Week 17 advert.