Coming up lemons
Now it looks like Northwestern may not go bowling (or get blown out by Bowling Green) after all. The SEC may get the second BCS berth no matter what, especially when you consider Florida is going to the Outback instead of the long-rumored Peach Bowl berth. With that move, it looks like Tennessee moves into the BCS, the Georgia-LSU loser going to the Capital One (nee Citrus) against Ohio State (instead of the BCS). And with the Buckeyes not in the BCS, there won't be enough Big Ten bowl spots and the 'Cats stay home.

I'm not really disappointed if it doesn't happen since 6-6 only made it a technicality to qualify for a bowl, and it's not necessarily indicative of a good season. It was a decent season, given everything, but is it bowl worthy? I'm not sure. The one potential positive is that 10-2 Northern Illinois may go bowling after all since two SEC teams in the BCS would free up the Independence Bowl to take an at-large team.

What's really strange is while it's fun to figure out who goes where, a lot of the matchups already announced do little for me. Many of them look like those very average Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night ESPN games where average teams hog the national spotlight because it's the only thing on. Sure, I'll watch, but only because of a couple of bowl pools. Ah, the joys of gambling (or pseudo-gambling)!