Game: The Allstate Sugar Bowl
Teams: Utah Utes (6-6) vs. Alabama Crimson Tide (9-4)
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, Superdome
Start Time: 8PM EST (FOX)
Network and Announcers: Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, Charissa Thompson, Chris Myers
Favorite: Alabama (-10)
AA's Pick: Alabama 20 - Utah 12

Onto the 2nd Round Folks, and just like we predicted Buck and Aikman to Dallas and Nantz and Simms to New England.

Saturday, January 12

Seattle at Green Bay, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)- Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, Tony Siragusa
Jacksonville at New England, 8 p.m. (CBS)- Jim Nantz, Phil Simms

Sunday, January 13

San Diego at Indy, 1 p.m. (CBS)- Greg Gumbel, Dan Dierdorf
NY Giants at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. (FOX)- Joe Buck, Troy Aikman

Ugh....here we go again. Out of all the people on FOX's coverage last year there was one person I couldn't stand more than any other.....Barry Alvarez. But hey that's just me and maybe he's improved like Charles Davis. See you around 8ish for fun.

Anyone up for drinking every time the bands are shown?





#8 Kansas vs. #3 Virginia Tech
The Orange Bowl
8:00 PM ET, January 3, 2008
Dolphin Stadium, Miami, FL

Weather: 53 Degrees, Chance of Showers 30&
Spread: VT -3.5, O/U 52
AA's Pick: Tough one here. I've seen VT play a lot this season and they've never really beat anyone by that much. That was until their last 5 games of the season. VT -3, buy the half (Record 16-10-2)
Announcers: Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, and Barry Alvarez (FOX)

Team Leaders

Kansas Passing: Reesing- 62.6%, 3259 Yards, 32 TDs, 6 INTs
Virginia Tech Passing: Glennon- 62.8%, 1636 Yards, 11 TDs, 3 INTs

Kansas Rushing: McAnderson- 175 Carries, 1050 Yards, 6.0 avg, 16 TDs
Virginia Tech Rushing: Ore- 244 Carries, 876 Yards, 3.6 avg, 8 TDs

Kansas Receiving: Henry- 52 Catches, 994 Yards, 19.1 avg, 9 TDs
Virginia Tech Receiving: Harper- 37 Catches, 571 Yards, 15.4 avg, 4 TDs
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God here we go....don't give Alvarez his own intro.

"They went right at Aqib Talib the best receiver for Kansas."- Barry Alvarez

Yeah he's on defense Barry.

"There's no rhyme or reason you'll see these guys on the. It's basically down and distance."- Daryl Johnston on the VT QBs

Yep....no parameters.

"That defense closes and they collision when they get there."- Barry Alvarez

Was that English?

"I think Sean Glennon might want that one back."- Daryl Johnston on Glennon throwing an INT

Thanks Captain Obvious.

"The intangibles on this kid are immeasurable"- Daryl Johnston

That's why they call them intangibles Moose.

"We talk about the different players Coach Mangoni recruits.......Mangino."- Barry Alvarez

"They took Branden Ore and pounded him down the field."- Daryl Johnston

"Branden Ore is hot."- Barry Alvarez

"If he can ride that running back and pull it and go out the back door he'd of had a big play."- Daryl Johnston

FOX came out with their Announcing pairings for the BCS games today, and basically nothing's different from last year's teams. It really bugs me that FOX has the BCS in the first place because they're just throwing people out there who haven't called a College Football game all season, and Barry Alvarez could challenge Bryant Gumbel for the World's Most Boring Commentator, but anyway here they are....

Orange Bowl: Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, and Barry Alvarez
Fiesta Bowl: Matt Vasgersian, Pat Haden and Terry Donahue
Sugar Bowl: Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis
BCS Championship: Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis

FOX gets 4 of the 5 BCS contests with ABC getting the 5th, and that is almost certainly going to be covered by Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit.

Below are a few of the highlights from FOX's BCS Games last year and hopefully they can improve on what was a terrible Bowl Season for the network. The production was awful as they had mics cutting in and out, and the only good team from last year (Kenny Albert, Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long) won't be back. I laid into Charles Davis pretty hard last season, but he's been pretty good on the BCS Show they have on FOX after the NFL Games on Sundays. Hopefully they can do better this go around.

"Oh yes indeedy....Jack Bauer would be most pleased by this Florida effort."- Thom Brennaman
"It feels so good. And he doesn't mind flash dancing out of there."- Charles Davis
"Are the Gators just going to win everything this year? Football, Basketball.....Dancing with the Stars?"- Charles Davis

Update: For those of you wanting background on the "Mangina" moniker for Davis you can head here.....

BCS National Championship Live-Blog: Florida/OSU- 3rd Quarter (Awful Announcing)