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A look back at bowl season

- While Saturday night provided two highly exciting games, perhaps the two best of the bowl season (TCU/Oregon and West Virginia/Arizona State), overall it's been a highly disappointing bowl season. Among the eight New Year's Eve and New Year's Day bowl games, zero were of the one-possession variety. The only two-possession games came courtesy of Houston/Florida State (38-24) and Ohio State/Notre Dame (44-28). The combined score of the two semifinals was 75-17 (average of 37.5 - 8.5). The combined score of all eight contests was 336-118 (average of 42.0 - 14.8). Let's hope the national championship game provides for a bit more excitement than these eight games did. - Outside of the SEC and their 8-2 record, the other four Power 5 conferences had a mixed bag as far as bowl results go. The Pac-12 finished 6-4, the Big Ten 5-5, the ACC 4-5, and the Big XII 3-4. If Alabama loses to Clemson, even though the SEC would finish the bowl season a Power 5 best 8-3, many would st...