NCAA College Football

2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl

Location: San Francisco, CA

Nevada Wolf Pack (12-1) vs. Boston College Eagles (7-5)

Date: Sunday January 9th, 2011

Time: 9:00 pm EST

Point Spread: Nevada Wolf Pack -7

Over/Under Line: 55

Preview: In San Francisco, California, the final bowl game before the National title game will be the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. The game will feature the Nevada Wolf Pack and the Boston College Eagles.

The Wolf Pack finished the regular season with a 12-1 record; with their lone loss coming on October 16th at Hawaii. The Wolf Pack won the Western Athletic Conference title after upsetting the Boise State Broncos 34-31 in overtime. Nevada, Boise State and Hawaii all finished with 7-1 conference records. The Wolf Pack set a school record with 75 touchdowns and 544 total points scored on the season. Colin Kaepernick tied a NCAA record with 59 rushing touchdowns. This is the sixth straight bowl game for the Wolf Pack. It is estimated, that since Reno to San Francisco is just four hours, the Wolf Pack will send close to 10,000 fans.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish scored the first 27 points of the game and thrashed the Miami Hurricanes 33-17 in the Sun Bowl on Friday night.

Freshman quarterback Tommy Rees threw for 201 yards and 2 touchdowns in the win. His top receiver Michael Floyd caught two touchdowns to lead the Irish. The win for Notre Dame finished the season at 8-5 after starting 1-3 with losses to Tulsa and Navy.

Jacory Harris started at quarterback for Miami, completing just 4 of 7 passes, while his three incomplete passes went for interceptions. Stephen Morris took over for Harris and threw for 282 yards, while completing 22 of 33 passes and 2 touchdowns.

The game sold out in just 21 hours, which is the fastest in the 77 year history of the Sun Bowl. The game saw a sold out crowd of 54,021. The temperature was 34 degrees, which was not an issue for the Irish, but seemingly bothered the Hurricanes, who had many wearing several layers.

2011 Compass Bowl

Location: Birmingham, AL

Pittsburgh Panthers (7-5) vs. Kentucky Wildcats (6-6)

Date: Saturday January 8th, 2011

Time: 12:00 pm EST

Point Spread: Pittsburgh Panthers -3

Over/Under Line: 52.5

Preview: In the Compass Bowl, taking place in Birmingham, Alabama – the Pittsburgh Panthers will take on the Kentucky Wildcats.

The Panthers are playing without head coach Dave Wannstedt, who resigned at the end of the regular season. The Panthers underachieved again under Wannstedt, which caused the University to force him out. The Panthers started the Big East schedule with three straight wins, but then took losses to Connecticut and West Virginia sent them out of the conference title. The Panthers hired former Miami Ohio head coach Michael Haywood to be the man starting next season.

It took two overtimes, but the North Carolina out of the Atlantic Coast Conference downed the Tennessee Volunteers, out of the Southeastern Conference. The win was in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee. North Carolina with the win finished the season with a 8-5 record, while the Volunteers of Tennessee finished 6-7.

Casey Barth kicked a 27 yard field goal to win the game in the second overtime. The game continued earlier in the game when Tennessee was flagged for having too many men on the field. This is the second time this season the Volunteers were flagged for the penalty in a huge spot in the game.

Tyler Yates, the North Carolina quarterback threw 234 yards and also led the Tar Heels to the game tying drive late in regulation.