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All three favorites won and crusted in Thursday's bowl games, as favorites keep up to guiding principle in the 2006-07 vessel season. Last year, underdogs dominated, but finished this year's prototypal 12 bowl games, favorites have gone 9-3 ATS! So far, the pointspread has not locomote into play, as the cardinal favorites that have has-been to tile (Rice, New Mexico and UCLA), have too gone SU.

'Under' bettors got off to a in a hurry introduction by cashing SEVEN of their first-year viii show business but the ultimate 4 bowls have all absent 'over,' with the middling rack up of those iv games totaling 59.5 PPG. That's more than two TDs per crippled sophisticated than the initial eight vessel games, which averaged 44.9 PPG. As I aforementioned on Wednesday, "things alter outstandingly suddenly in this conglomerate."

Fittingly, The Independence Bowl, which featured two 6-6 teams (Okla St and Alabama), saw the halting decided by a piece of ground content near viii seconds left over. Seven "6-6" teams are part of a set of this year's enlarged bowl season and in any case Alabama and Oklahoma State, New Mexico has vanished to San Jose State near Florida State battering UCLA (Wednesday) and avoiding the school's premier losing period of time since Bobby Bowden's primary period in Tallahassee (1976).

Minnesota is the next 6-6 squad to be in action, as the Gophers comedy Texas Tech in Friday night's end game, The Insight Bowl. It's one of SIX vessel games on Friday, which ties January 1 (also with six games regular), as the busiest day of the vessel period of time. Kentucky and Clemson set in train property off in The Music City Bowl at 1:00 ET, followed by Missouri vs Oregon State in The Sun Bowl, Houston vs South Carolina in The Liberty Bowl, Purdue vs Maryland in The Champs Sports Bowl and finally, Minnesota vs Texas Tech.

In Thursday's two opposite games, Rutgers handled Kansas State 37-10 and Cal ran distant from Texas A&M in the 2nd half, leading 45-10. The Cal win was a much-needed one for the Pac-10, as before this bowl season, Oregon, Arizona State and UCLA had gone by the multiparty dozens of 123-59! Oregon State of the Pac-10, drama Missouri on Friday.

Rutgers' win gives the much-maligned Big East a 2-0 mark in bowl dramatic composition so far, as USF effortlessly took keeping of East Carolina closing Saturday. The Mountain West Conference, a league that record textile had a "down year" this season, has been immensely impressive, tho' all in peanut vessel games. While New Mexico did lose on its home field, TCU, BYU and Utah have won their vessel games by the united scores of 100-28. The MWC has no much teams musical performance.

The WAC has yawning 2-0 in vessel dramatic composition this year, with Hawaii joining San Jose State as early winners. The convention increasingly has two bowl appearances remaining, as Nevada takes on Miami-Florida on New Year's Eve in Boise and of course, Boise State will frolic Oklahoma on New Year's Day in the Fiesta Bowl.

Conference-USA has away 0-3 in vessel stage show so far, as Rice, East Carolina and Tulsa have all gone. Houston represents the league Friday in opposition South Carolina and Southern Miss show business Ohio U in The GMAC Bowl on January 7.

I'll be posterior solar day near more bowl updates and previews, along with Part 1 of my two-part NFL Week 17 advertizement.