Sugar Bowl hero: "Brunette girls" inspired me
CBS News
NEW ORLEANS — Virginia Tech wanted to prove itself worthy of a BCS bid. The Hokies blew it in the Sugar Bowl. Michigan's Brendan Gibbons (34) is congratulated by Drew Dileo (26) after Gibbons kicked the winning field goal in overtime against Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl NCAA college football game in New Orleans, [...]
Read MoreSugar Bowl victory means Hoke, Michigan headed in right direction
CNN
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Brendan Gibbons drilled a 37-yard field goal down the middle in overtime to lift 13th-ranked Michigan to a 23-20 victory over 17th-ranked Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl last night. The victory capped an impressive 11-2 debut season Your best source for quality Cincinnati Bengals news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores [...]
Read MoreOregon outlasts Wisconsin in Rose Bowl shootout
USA TODAY
WHAT'S AT STAKE Michigan, which won 10 games in Brady Hoke's first season as head coach, is in its first BCS bowl since the 2007 Rose Bowl and is looking for its first BCS Bowl victory since defeating Alabama in overtime of the 2000 Orange Bowl. WHAT'S AT STAKE Michigan, which won 10 games in [...]
Read MoreRose Bowl Live Blog: Wisconsin-Oregon
Wall Street
"The sunlight reflecting off the Nike-designed Oregon helmets is going to be a distraction," The Oregonian's Ken Goe says. "So bright it hurts to look directly at them." Oregon and Wisconsin traded touchdowns so quickly at the Rose Bowl Monday afternoon that even Baylor and Washington were a little impressed, setting a host of bowl [...]
Read MoreCapital One Bowl MVP gets ejected, returns to field for trophy
Orlando Sent
A 30-13 victory over Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl merely underscored the magnitude: Somehow Spurrier cobbled together 11 wins in the toughest conference in the game—and did so without a legitimate quarterback. And by running an offense that deep The Capital One Bowl drew an announced crowd of 61351 Monday, bringing the total for [...]
Read MoreRose Bowl 2012 LIVE UPDATES: Oregon vs. Wisconsin
Huffington P
Rose Bowl hopes were in the air and so was the beginning of fall. Why? I don't know. The fact of the matter was that Utah was entering a rebuilding year when the Utes welcomed the Montana State Bobcats into Rice-Eccles Stadium on September 1 and began The 2012 Rose Bowl features two teams which [...]
Read MoreBig Ten: 2012-rose-bowl-preview
ESPN (blog)
By CJ Schexnayder – College Football Contributor The Rose Bowl Stadium was built during college football's great stadium boom of the 1920s, and the story of the historic venue's construction is a tale of the sport's first big-time era. The Rose Bowl Stadium was built during college football's great stadium boom of the 1920s and [...]
Read MoreBig Ten: 2012-rose-bowl-preview
ESPN (blog)
Recapping the highs and lows that led to today's game in Pasadena. Here's a preview of what to expect on Monday from the Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO: WHO TO WATCH: Wisconsin's Montee Ball. The junior running back needs just one touchdown to tie and two to break the FBS single-season record, as his [...]
Read MoreWisconsin and Oregon duke it out in 98th Rose Bowl
Fox News
For some, going to the Rose Bowl is a "bucket list" item. A Madison woman is finally scratching it off of hers. Jeanne Garnett, 88, has wanted to come to the Rose Bowl for 65 years. Every year, she made her eight children watch the Tournament of Roses Friday night's loss in the Insight Bowl [...]
Read MoreOregon, Wisconsin embraces Rose Bowl history
San Francisc
AP The Rose Bowl is a living archive of football tradition. Every year, teams participate in the same oceanside pep rallies, Disneyland visits and Hollywood beef-eating extravaganzas before those flowered parade floats glide down Colorado Boulevard The view from the experts. Now what do you predict? Wisconsin plays Oregon in the Rose Bowl college football [...]
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