Rest of the BCS Preview

This week the college football bowl schedule is wrapping up and the 2009 College Football Season will finally crown a champion. Prior to Thursday's big BCS Championship Match-Up between Alabama and Texas though are two other BCS Bowls and the GMAC Bowl that has a bit of local flavor to it featuring the Central Michigan Chippewas and the Troy Trojans.

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Tonight, Texas Christian vs Boise State. 8pm on Fox.
TCU and Boise State both come into this game undefeated and fighting to show who the real non-BCS conference champ is. Boise opened up their season knocking off Pac-10 Champion Oregon and then continued through their season against other WAC opponents. TCU opened up the non-conference season with wins over both Virginia and Clemson. They continued to go undefeated throughout the season beating ranked opponents Brigham Young and Utah. TCU is favored in the match-up and Boise State returns to the location of their large upset victory of Oklahoma in 2007. This game should be interesting if anything. I would say TCU has the advantage, considering who they have beaten (I still think CJ Spiller should have received more Heisman votes and that win against Clemson means a lot to me).
Pick: TCU - 34 Boise - 30

FedEx Orange Bowl: Tuesday Jan. 5, Iowa vs Georgia Tech. 8pm on Fox.
Iowa comes into the game with two losses, to Northwestern and Big Ten Champion Ohio State. Georgia Tech enters the game with two losses, to both Miami (FL) and Georgia. I will say that I will be rooting for Iowa considering they are in the Big Ten, but I see Georgia Tech coming out on top in this one. Georgia Tech's spred-option offense will be too much for Iowa's Defense and will come out on top.
Pick: GT - 24 Iowa - 13

GMAC Bowl: Wednesday Jan. 6, Central Michigan vs Troy. 7pm on ESPN.
I'm not going to spend too much time talking about the GMAC Bowl, considering I'm neither a Central Michigan fan nor a Troy fan. But, I will say I watched the MAC Championship and was once again impressed with Chippewa QB Dan Lefevour. Lefevour will definitely be drafted come April. If he doesn't go Day 1, he will certainly be a Day 2 steal.
Pick: CMU - 27 Troy - 13

Citi BCS Championship: Thursday Jan. 7, Alabama vs Texas. 8pm on ABC.
In Nick Saban's return to the National Championship game he it pitted against Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns. Alabama comes into the game after putting a beatdown on Time Tebow and the Flordia Gators in the SEC Championship Game. Texas enters after sqeaking by the Nebraska Cornhuskers led by Ndamukong Suh in the Big 12 Championship Game. Alabama's Offense, led by Heisman Trophy Winner Runnning Back Mark Ingram, will go up against the No. 1 Running Defense in the country, only giving up 62.2 yrds/game. Colt McCoy will lead the run-and-gun offense of Texas who have scored 529 points this season. It will be a game for the ages and certainly one you won't want to miss.
Pick: Texas - 38 Alabama - 27

I think these last few bowl games will be quite entertaining. I suggest watching them if you can. This shall be quite an end to a great college football season.

-Kevin