THE people who plan the college football bowl games must operate on the Christmas shopping principle: Wait 'til the last minute, then panic.
They started at a leisurely pace with the Las Vegas Bowl (UNLV v Central Michigan) on December 15, sprinkling a game here and there, but all of a sudden, there were four games yesterday (Hong Kong time), two will be played today, two tomorrow and the bowl orgy doesn't end until after SEVEN games are played on Tuesday.
Those boys in bowl headquarters still haven't learned that in matters of college sports, like alcohol, sex and chili, there is a definite point when quantity has an adverse affect on quality (especially when combining one with any one of the others).
Fifteen games in a four-day span (60 quarters of football) translates into between 13 and 50 bottles of Bud and an unknown number of bags of potato chips.
And what is at stake? The mythical national college football championship crown, of course.
This year the national title will be decided (with luck) at the Orange Bowl tomorrow, when the number one ranked and unbeaten Nebraska Cornhuskers face the number three Miami Hurricanes. If Nebraska win, they get to strut in front of the TV as champions.
But there's a couple of important facts to keep in mind: Nebraska go into Miami's house of horrors with a seven-game losing streak in bowl appearances (four of those losses were at Miami, two of them at the hands of Miami).
