Heads and tales: Bowlkeeping
By Wade Kwon
Bowl season. Time to start planning your Jan. 2 party, when Alabama will play Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl and Auburn will play Wisconsin in the (Bank Name Here) Bowl. The Tide rolls at 10 a.m. on Fox, while the Tigers pounce at noon on ABC, part of five bowls airing that day. Wanna see all 28? Hope you caught the first two earlier this week, but here’s a schedule of the remaining 26.
Will bowl for $$$: It’s been 15 years since Birmingham played host to a bowl game, but since then, Mobile has become home to not one but two bowl games. (Only Orlando and Miami can boast similar double duty.) What the hell happened?
• Coming up empty [Birmingham News]
The non-graduate: The Crimson Tide is in the Top 5. Among 116 Division I-A schools for non-graduating football players. More than three-fifths of Alabama footballers don’t receive a diploma. And at Auburn, more than two-fifths of football players don’t graduate. The NCAA report says about one-fourth of all Division I athletes fail to graduate. Did we mention that both Alabama and Auburn made it to bowl games? Good bowls, too.
• UA football grad rate worst in SEC [Birmingham News]
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Thursday, December 22, 2005, 10:45 pm
My team won their bowl.