OSG Bowling: Your 5-Game Wrap- Atlanta, SanFran, Memphis, El Paso, Houston

First, Vandy was in their first big "Baby Bowl" in a long time since the days of Whit Taylor- a Liberty Bowl berth against a higher-powered Cincinnati team...

Nice effort as Coach James Franklin gets things moving...
At the 3:20 mark...
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Utah was trailing Georgia Tech by 14 with a little over 6 Minutes to go in the Sun Bowl in El Paso. Someone forgot to tell the Utes John White IV. They converted on a 4th and 14 to tie the game and send it into overtime before knocking off the Yellow Jackets.
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In Houston, there was a nice touch before the Texas Bowl where the crowd paid tribute to "Joey V"- Texas A&M lineman Joey Villavisencio. Northwestern hadn't won a bowl game in 63 years, and head coach Pat Fitzgerald, literally, had the players carry aroud a stuffed monkey for symbolism the whole week long.

A&M actually held a halftime lead for a change and won 33-22.
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Auburn fans wondered where the Barrett Trotter that showed up to the Georgia Dome to play Virginia. He was lead blocker for Onterrio McCalebb, scrambled for his life for positive yardage, and actually did this...
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Auburn won 43-24 with McCalebb's 109 yards and matched Kiehl Frazier's 2 rushing TD's with 2 of his own. Both teams finish 8-5.

And, finally, UCLA finished the year 6-8 after a loss in the Pac-12 title game, getting a waiver, and losing to a team who lost 6 in a row going in- and almost had 4 coaches boycott over a contract dispute.

Go Illinois... and take the Bruins with you...
But the best part of the game was pretty gross...
An Illinois ball boy was digging and, maybe, found something...
((HT: ESPN/Everythingsnews))

DEVELOPING: Texas A&M OL Dies In Car Crash

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Texas A&M offensive lineman Joseph Villavisencio died in a head-on car crash Thursday on his way home after the Aggies last practice in preparation for the bowl game played at Reliant Stadium on New Year's Eve Day in Houston.

Eyewitness reports say the senior swerved to avoid a buzzard and ended up head-on in the path of an 18-wheeler.

Here's TAMU AD Bill Byrne on Villavisencio's death...


"Joey V," as he was known on campus, had taken part in the team's presentation of gifts at the Twin City Mission in Bryan, Texas earlier in the day.

Villavisencio was a true senior radiological health engineering major at A&M.