Pacific Life Holiday Bowl
Location: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, California
Matchup: Texas (Big XII No. 3) vs. Arizona State (Pac Ten No. 2)
Spread: Texas -2.5
Smartass Comment about the Bowl Itself: The Bowl itself is one of the best December bowls around. The fact that the second place team in the Pac Ten goes here because the Pac Ten doesn't want their teams playing in any January bowl but the Rose Bowl is the joke.
Thoughts: First a little trivia, the last National Champion to come from a non "BCS bowl", BYU in the 1984 Holiday Bowl. As for this year's version its a battle of two teams who are almost mirror images of each other. Both teams have playmakers (Limas Sweed, Mike Jones) at WR. Both schools feature picturesque females that belong on recruiting brochures. Both teams defend the run well (Texas 10th, Arizona State 13th national rankings), but not the pass (Arizona State 69th, Texas 109th). All makes for a typical Holiday Bowl, fun, high scoring, close with the ball flying in the air a lot. I like ASU here slightly because of the matchup of their Wide Receivers against that awful Texas secondary.
Pick: Arizona State
Confidence: 8 out of 32
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