Yahoo predicts every bowl game

[Marsh01]

Texas Bowl (12): Minnesota vs. Syracuse, Dec. 27.

Watchability (scale of 1-5): 2.5. Gophers have been one of the better stories in college football, having their best season in a decade while head coach Jerry Kill is recovering from epileptic seizures that have taken him off the sidelines on game days since early in the year. And Syracuse is Syracuse: .500 and unremarkable.

Motivation Meter: Moderately high for both teams. Orange playing for a winning record and its first consecutive winning seasons since 2000-01. Gophers are back in the same bowl for the second straight year, which may inhibit fan turnout, but are trying to win a bowl game for the first time since 2004.

Best Texas Bowl Ever: Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31 in 2012. It was a mediocre matchup, with the Red Raiders 7-5 and the Golden Gophers 6-6, but an entertaining game. There were eight different lead changes, and Tech scored 10 points in the final 1:10 to win. The winning points came on a field goal at the gun.

Worst Texas Bowl Ever: Rice 38, Western Michigan 14 in 2008. The Broncos wandered into this game as an at-large fill-in and quickly proved to be in over their heads. The Owls led 38-0 before Western Michigan recorded two touchdowns during garbage time.

Dash Pick: Minnesota 21, Syracuse 16. Don't come to this game expecting offensive pyrotechnics. Gophers have scored a total of 34 points in their last three games. Orange have scored 20 or fewer seven times in 12 games. Expect Minnesota to have success running and control the game.

Right because we have been so bad against the run this season

 

[Pyle]

Texas Bowl (12): Minnesota vs. Syracuse, Dec. 27.

Dash Pick: Minnesota 21, Syracuse 16. Don't come to this game expecting offensive pyrotechnics. Gophers have scored a total of 34 points in their last three games. Orange have scored 20 or fewer seven times in 12 games. Expect Minnesota Syracuse to have success running and control the game.

Right because we have been so bad against the run this season

Fixed.

 

[TheCusian]

So stupid. If there's been one constant - it's our ability to stop the run and put pressure on the QB. All season.

Dumba$$es need to do their homework.

 

[shandeezy7]

I guess being consistently called .500 and unremarkable is better than what we were called during G-Rob's tenure: an unwatchable dumpster fire and one of the worst teams in college football.

 

[JJReddawg]

And Syracuse is Syracuse: .500 and unremarkable.

3 bowl in 4 years, while a team like Tennessee hasn't been bowling since 2010 and their last bowl win came at the end of the 2007 season. If they were 6-6 and in this game they wouldn't be getting this comment. Screw Yahoo Sports, you've just been added to the list.

 

[Chip]

Maybe they know Eskridge is out? I doubt it though.

The score prediction may not be far off.

Of course, I thought the Pinstripe Bowl in 2010 would be a low scoring game.

 

[Marsh01]

3 bowl in 4 years, while a team like Tennessee hasn't been bowling since 2010 and their last bowl win came at the end of the 2007 season. If they were 6-6 and in this game they wouldn't be getting this comment. Screw Yahoo Sports, you've just been added to the list.

Didnt realize it was a$$clown Pat Forde writing the column

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