Holiday Bowl - Dec. 27Texas vs. Arizona State
One of the best non-BCS matchups in my mind is the Holiday bowl between Texas and Arizona State. Texas is coming off a disappointing season with another loss to Kansas State, another loss to Texas, and yet another loss to sub par Texas A&M. Arizona State had a quite a different season, climbing as high as #4 in the polls and an 8-0 record before losing to Dennis Dixon. Arizona State has a great quarterback in Rudy Carpenter and a potent offense that will definitely score some points on Texas given the fact that Texas' defense is averaging 25 points against per game, gave up 38 to Texas A&M (ouch!), 43 to Texas Tech, 41 to Kansas State, and worst of all 25 to a completely awful Nebraska team that Texas barely beat by 3. This Texas team is sub par at best and are not riding any momentum into this game. Arizona State's defense averages 5 less points given up per game and its only blowout loss was to USC part II. (The second half of the season USC)
Why Watch this Game? It is sure to be a good one between two upper echelon BCS conference teams. Texas loves getting in shootouts with potent offensive teams like Arizona State and Colt McCoy can usually keep Texas in these games given that he's healthy. This may a high scoring affair.
Prediction: Arizona State 43 Texas 39
MVP : Rudy Carpenter (ASU QB)
3 comments:
I dont think it will be nearly as close as you have predicted. Texas doesnt have the star power this year, and I think Arizona State will light them up. They have done poor against passing attacks this season, a la OkSt, Nebraska, and obviously Texas Tech.
ASU 41
Texas 24
agreed with dakota.
ASU 35 Texas 21
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