Bowl predictions and comments

What follows are a couple of predictions on today’s later bowl games.

Before the bigger bowl games and the two that are playoff semi-final games, I will offer predictions as well.

Today both to be “high scoring” tilts.

Baylor a field goal underdog, 47 North Carolina 37

Later in the day.

4 point underdog, Nevada 38 Colorado State 34.

No predictions on these two bowl games but each is a redux of what amounted to a game for the national title back in the days before playoffs and even BCS title games.

In the 1962 season Rose Bowl, played on January 1, 1963, U.S.C. prevailed (42-37) vs Wisconsin in the game. They claimed coach John Mc Kay’s first national title. The two schools clash tomorrow night.

On Saturday January 2nd, 33 years after a game on  Saturday January 1, 1983 it is again Penn State vs Georgia. In that tilt on January 1, 1983 Penn State defeated Georgia (24-20), giving their coach Joe Paterno, the first of two national title wins.

U.S.C. led (42-7) before holding on in that famed Rose Bowl which concluded under darkening skies in beautiful Pasadena, California. Quarterbacks Pete Beathard of U.S.C. and Ron Vander Kelen of Wisconsin will be long remembered for their fine performances in that game.