New Year’s Day Bowl Predictions

In an effort to bounce back here are some New Year’s Day bowl predictions.

Northwestern has never made the NCAA basketball tournament, but are off to a good start this season.

Some momentum to the football team.

Tennessee is a 9 point favorite.

Tennessee 27 Northwestern 20

Another Big Ten team I will pick is Iowa.

They had a (12-0) regular season.

I doubt they would have been as non competitive as Michigan State, the team that beat them (barely) in the Big Ten title tilt, was vs Alabama.

Today Iowa is a 6 point underdog in the Rose Bowl vs Stanford.

Iowa 29 Stanford 28.

It was Christmas Day 1971 when the Miami Dolphins won a 6 quarter game from the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

The late Garo Yepremian, another we lost far too soon, in 2015, booted the game winning field goal.

Karl Noonan, pictured above, evokes nice memories for Iowa supporters from his/their days at that fine university. (Surely Stanford is at least a fine, if not great university)

He was the holder on Yepremian’s historic field goal.