Big Ten Bloggers Pick’em: Bowl Games

Cramming in our finished assignment 5 minutes before it's due? Feels like college again!

Here are our bowl picks, right on time for tonight's Insight Bowl.

With all the holiday stuff going on, we are down to just two pickers this time around. But despair not, for we've employed a special guest--a genuine 1992 Nickel.

Bowl Preview 2010-11: December Bowl Games

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Tomorrow is the official start of college football's post season. No, there's nothing quite like the mystique and tradition of the Meineke Car Care Bowl or the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl.

Despite what many of us had been bracing for, Penn State is not featured in this first part of the bowl season preview. Today, we'll give you the quickest rundown of each December bowl game, and whether or not it could be really worth watching. Part 2 will debut closer to January, probably on December 30-31. So stay tuned.

Enjoy.

Poll: Penn State Bowl Opponent and Destination

Hint Hint, Nudge Nudge...

Bowl announcements are coming Sunday night. Penn State and its insiders have been surprisingly tight-lipped about it all, though there has been plenty of speculation that the Nittany Lions will head to this bowl game or that.

The official bowl announcement will be Sunday night. And though it all seems like a foregone conclusion, we'll let you chime in...

Fans surprisingly optimistic about PSU bowl chances

(Photo: Mike/LBU)

Now this is something I surely did not expect. With Penn State's final six games featuring only two games (Minnesota and Indiana) definitely in the "winnable" category, it seems Penn State fans are expecting the Nittany Lions to pull off at least one toss-up game among Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State or Michigan State.

Here are the results from yesterday's poll:

Will Penn State reach bowl eligiblity (6 wins) in 2010?

Funny, after weeks of mass hysteria from the statewide and national media regarding Penn State's 3-3 record, you would think fans to be a bit less optimistic about the Lions' chances to make a bowl game.

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