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[QUOTE="Marsh01, post: 852946, member: 473"]
[B]Texas Bowl (12)[/B]: 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. [B]Expect Minnesota to have success running and control the game.[/B]

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