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So, the majority of us get excited about the important games we play outside the conference, and others anticipate to those big conference games. But then there’s the small amount of people that contemplate about January. I’ll admit, I do it all the time.

Particularly since I root for a team who hasn’t been victorious in a bowl game since 2006, whereas up to that, they had won five consecutively. But I still stand loyally alongside them, and the Large Ten Conference.

Georgia would love to be back at the Superdome next week, playing for the title it really wanted. Instead, the Bulldogs will have to settle for being Sugar Bowl champs. Overpowering the country’s last unbeaten team, black-clad Georgia took out its frustration at getting passed over for a shot at the BCS championship with a 41-10 rout of Colt Brennan and the Warriors on Tuesday night.

This would have been a perfect Rose Bowl for the USC Trojans, except for the one part they couldn’t control. They couldn’t pick their opponent. The sixth-ranked Trojans routed Illinois 49-17 on Tuesday and showed the rest of the country that, yes, maybe they are the best team in college football right now.

Texas Tech didn’t score 40 or more points, as it had all season. Through three quarters, the nation’s top passing offense couldn’t score much at all. But Graham Harrell stayed with it, finishing 44-of-69 for 407 yards and three TDs, and the Red Raiders scored just enough to overcome a 14-point deficit and stun No.

Michigan coach Lloyd Carr was doused with water, surrounded by dancing players and then carried onto the field. He went out a winner. Chad Henne threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns, Mike Hart ran for 129 yards and two scores and the Wolverines upset No. 9 Florida 41-35 Tuesday in the Capital One Bowl to win their first bowl game since 2003.

Colorful confetti flip-flopping around him, fans in black and gold chanting his name, Tony Temple and his Missouri teammates were basking in a terrific ending to a magical season. Only one thing was wrong — the setting. See, this was the Cotton Bowl, not the national championship game they were a win away from reaching, and it wasn’t the Orange, Fiesta or Sugar Bowl like they thought they…

Darren McFadden lunged into the end zone on fourth down, then dropped the ball and walked away slowly. It might have been his final touchdown at Arkansas — but there was nothing to celebrate. “We had a bad game,” McFadden said. “You don’t want to lose a bowl game. You only have fun when you win a bowl game.” McFadden had 105 rushing yards Tuesday in No.

Phillip Fulmer stepped up to the podium and graciously accepted the Outback Bowl trophy. No. 16 Tennessee overcame injuries, academic suspensions and the impending departure of two key assistant coaches to beat No. 18 Wisconsin 21-17 Tuesday for the Volunteers’ first 10-win season since 2004. “We’ve been waiting a couple of years to get one of these,” the Tennessee coach said after the Vols erased…

Welcome to the BCS consolation bracket, otherwise known as the Fiesta Bowl. Third-ranked Oklahoma thought it deserved a shot at the Bowl Championship Series title after a series of late-season upsets shook up the BCS standings. But the Sooners finished behind another twice-beaten team, LSU. No. 11 West Virginia only needed to beat Pitt — a team that lost to Navy — in Morgantown to clinch a berth in…

After much overanalyzing of Kansas’ prolific offense and Virginia Tech’s stingy defense and every other stat heading into Thursday’s Orange Bowl, one distinct difference stands out. Virginia Tech has been on the big stage before. For Kansas, this basically is uncharted territory. Oh, sure, the Jayhawks have reached the Orange Bowl before.