Bowl Season Rundown

This weekend there will be bowl games. Oh yes, there will be bowl games. Most will be meaningless contests that shouldn't be played in the first place, but will be played none the less. I remember when bowl games were only played on New Years Day and if you played on a day that wasn't on New Year's it didn't really count anyway.

Tonight the 2007 bowl season will kick off with the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. Wow, what a mouthful. And for the seven of us that will watch the game from beginning to end, we'll all receive a free blender with the opening of a new SDCCU cash back rewards checking account. Awesome.

The game itself will showcase WAC representative Utah against Navy. If you're a Nebraska fan and tune into this game you may see something vaguely familiar in the way the Midshipmen run their offense. For if you do watch the game tonight you'll be treated to the triple option. Something not seen in Lincoln since former coach Bill Callahan shocked our culture.

With former Navy coach Paul Johnson in Atlanta now after being hired by Georgia Tech, the Midshipmen won't necessarily play worse but I wouldn't expect them to play better or win either. Even after the highs of beating Notre Dame in South Bend for the first time since Roger Staubach was under center to defeating Army in the Armed Forces Game, they probably won't beat the Utes.

Utah has been playing great defense all season and has basically flown under the radar. Maybe you caught their shellacking of UCLA earlier in the year. Maybe you didn't, it was on Versus. Navy doesn't have much of a defense to speak of and it won't help them much against Utah stud running back Darrell Mack. Utah defends well against the pass, however it won't be that big of a factor considering that Navy will only pass the ball four times the entire game. Utah will make enough big plays on offense and their defense is good enough to stop the dreaded triple option.

Pick: Utah 32 - Navy 17