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Cincinnati Bearcats Beamer-ized By Virginia Tech Hokies
Chess. A game of smarts, strategy, and sophistication. Those elements of chess are similar to those of football. In either game, chess or football, the player or team who makes the least mistakes always wins the match, right? Wrong...
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Hokies-Bearcats: Virginia Tech Opens the New Year with an Orange Bowl Victory
Virginia Tech came into this season with reasonable expectations. Many picked them to play Clemson in the ACC Championship, but lose...
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A Pop-Culture Look at Virginia Tech's Orange Bowl Victory: Still Nobody Cares
This is a pop culture look at the FedEx Orange Bowl. Bleacher Report media darling Michael J. is watching the game alongside me and is helping with the brainstorm here. Anything funny within can be credited to him, it certainly wasn’t me...
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Orange Bowl Preview: Virginia Tech, Cincinnati Fight for BCS Respectability
Orange BowlCincinnati vs Virginia TechJan 1 8 PM FoxMiami, FLLine: Cincinnati -2.5 OverviewThe Bearcats and Hokies take the stage on New Years night in the FedEx Orange Bowl representing the Big East and ACC as their respective conference champions...
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Cincinnati-Virginia Tech Football: Mitch Picks the Orange Bowl
While this is my last picks article written in conjunction with the Bleacher Report college football writers for this bowl season, you can always find all of my free picks against the spread ...
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Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati Betting Odds, Picks, and Predictions
This year’s Orange Bowl is being played in Dolphin Stadium on New Year’s Day, as the Cincinnati Bearcats matchup against the Virginia Tech Hokies...
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Orange Bowl Preview: Cincinnati, Virginia Tech Have No Shortage of Defense
Keys to the Game Cincinnati 1. Make it a perfect “10” For Cincinnati, this marks their first major BCS Bowl game after partaking in a past history of nine Humanitarian, International, ...
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Virginia Tech-Cincinnati: Who Will Be Sipping on The Juice
The Orange Bowl is rivaling the Sugar Bowl for the "least intriguing BCS Matchup." Does anyone really think Utah will beat Alabama? Please. However, it may be one of the most competitive...
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Cincinnati Bearcats Shouldn't Be Criticized for BCS' Flaws
How can you say a team from a BCS conference that finishes 11-2 does not deserve a BCS bid? Well, this is what a lot of naysayers have been saying about the Cincinnati Bearcats...
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Previewing The BCS Games, Part One: The Orange Bowl
As most of you will agree, this is probably one of the worst BCS games in the history of the system. The only people who will watch it are Bearcat fans, Hokie fans, and college football fanatics...
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The Hit, the Hug, the Catch: Top Plays From College Football in 2008
Athletic, game-changing, and unusual are some of the words used to describe the most memorable plays of the 2008 season. The following five have been chosen on the basis of the way they made us feel—they touched all emotions...
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For Sale: Orange Bowl Tickets, $1 Each. Any Takers?
Congratulations, BCS. You have outdone yourself. The Orange Bowl is an official flop, and it hasn't even played out yet.The going rate for an Orange Bowl 50 yard line ticket is $181, but it's probably up for negotiation...
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Everyone Loves a Good Coordinator
If I am Brian Kelly, Brady Hoke, or Turner Gill, I have to wonder what I have to do to get a premier coaching job these days? This "hiring" season has to be titled the Year of the Coordinator! ...
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Orange Bowl Officials Predict Economic Downturn With Halftime Act Selections
How did they know? How did the organizors of the Orange Bowl halftime show know to cut back on spending for thier once-world-famouns halftime show? After we stated that the intermission was ...
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Love 'Em or Hate 'Em: All BCS Bowl Teams Know How to Stop the Run
A trend to live by in college football: A proficient run defense will get you into a BCS bowl (unless you’re Boise State*—I can’t help you there)...
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Sin-Sin-Naughty Is Not Orange Bowl Worthy: Enter Boise State To Prove It
There was never a doubt in my mind that this day’s editorial would prove to make a statement against the Big East Title holder Cincinnati. Of course it would have been more fun writing this had Hawaii not self-destructed, and actually won the game.
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The Orange Bowl: A Stinker?
Imagine, if you will, you're the director of the Orange Bowl. Your job is to pick the opponent for the ACC champs, Virginia Tech. Guess what? Your job stinks. Let's be perfectly blunt here- nobody cares about the ACC champs except for some die-hard Va...
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One Simple Question: Why Do Cincinnati and The Big East Get No Respect?
I've been thinking over the past season, about UC's impressive rise and their rise in the rankings and now that we have the Big East crown, all I wonder is.....
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Memo to BCS: Please Don't!
Thank goodness Oregon beat Oregon State this weekend. Who would have wanted to see a replay of Oregon State vs. Penn State a 44-14 whipping by PSU in September? USC vs...
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Cincinnati Bearcats Do Not Deserve BCS Invitation
When West Virginia lost to Pittsburgh recently, the Cincinnati football program finally had something to really cheer about. Just in case you don't know it, Cincy received an automatic invite to a BCS bowl by clinching the Big East crown...
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Relax, Bearcat Fans: Brian Kelly Will Be Here for Years to Come
How did I come to this conclusion? First of all, he is going to a BCS bowl game barring a large catastrophe. Second, he would be an idiot to leave. He has something few college coaches have: JOB SECURITY...
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Overachievers, Underachievers: Recruiting and Performance in 2008
Every February, we make a big deal about recruiting rankings as the next college football class signs with their prospective schools. But rarely do we look back in time to see who did the best with the recruits they got...
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Finally a Rivalry: Pittsburgh-Cincinnati Preview
A football game on a cold November evening, a team from Pittsburgh, and a team from Cincinnati playing a game with everything on the line: has to be between the Bengals and Steelers, right? ...
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Tennessee Head Coaching Search: Brian Who?
As soon as the announcement was made the rumors started. Tennessee fans have been clamoring and waiting for the announcement of a new head football coach for almost a month now. After 16 years of Fulmer, the Vol-nation was ready for a change...
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A Viewers Guide to the River City Rivalry
Much is being made about this weekends slate of games in college football. With conference titles up for grabs in the ACC, Big 12 and Mountain West it is understandable how the River City Rivalry might get overlooked...


















