BCS Bowl Teams -- Graduation Success Rate

The BCS Bowl Selection Show aired this evening on ESPN -- and here's the list of the teams playing in the BCS Bowl Games and their NCAA Graduation Success Rate.  As well as all of the other Bowl Games...

If you look at the BCS Bowl Match-ups -- you have three of the five games that will have a hard time selling all of their tickets:  Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl and yes, the Rose Bowl... 


BCS National Championship Game -- January 7, 2013

• #1 Notre Dame: 97 GSR
• #2 Alabama:  75 GSR

Current Betting Line:  Alabama is an 8.5 point favorite.
 

Rose Bowl Game -- January 1, 2013

• #6 Stanford:  90 GSR
• NR Wisconsin:  65 GSR

Current Betting Line:  Stanford is a 7.5 point favorite.

Sugar Bowl Game -- January 2, 2013:

• #3 Florida:  75 GSR
• #21 Louisville:  63 GSR

Current Betting Line:  Florida is a 16.5 point favorite.
 

Orange Bowl Game -- January 1, 2013:

•  #12 Florida State:  55 GSR
•  #15 Northern Illinois:  83 GSR

Current Betting Line:  Florida State is a 14 point favorite.


Fiesta Bowl Game -- January 3, 2013:

•  #4 Oregon:  64 GSR
•  #5 Kansas State:  58 GSR

Current Betting Line:  Oregon is an 8.5 point favorite.


ADDITIONAL BOWL GAMES

Cotton Bowl -- January 1, 2013

• #9 Texas A&M:  69 GSR
• #11 Oklahoma:  47 GSR

Capital One Bowl -- January 1, 2013

• #7 Georgia:  69 GSR
• #16 Nebraska:  68 GSR

Outback Bowl -- January 1, 2013

• #10 South Carolina:  55 GSR
• #18 Michigan:  69 GSR

Chick-Fil-A Bowl -- December 31, 2012

• #8 LSU:  77 GSR
• #14 Clemson:  75 GSR

Alamo Bowl -- December 28, 2012

• #23 Texas:  58 GSR
• #13 Oregon State:  60 GSR

Holiday Bowl -- December 27, 2012

• #17 UCLA:  62 GSR
• NR Baylor:  63 GSR

MAACO Bowl Las Vegas -- December 22, 2012

• NR Washington:  74 GSR
• #19 Boise State:  81 GSR

 LINK:  FINAL BCS STANDINGS

Quinn Leads Chiefs to Emotional Win Today...

Former Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn, led his grief stricken teammates to only their second win of the season today -- throwing two TD's in the Chiefs' 27 to 21 victory over the Carolina Panthers.

Chiefs' starting LB Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend yesterday morning before turning the gun on himself a little later in front of coaches at the Kansas City Chiefs practice facility.

Brady was 19 for 23 for 201 yards and the two touchdown passes.  It was Quinn's first win as a starter for the Chiefs.  Here's what's being said about today's game...

LINK:  KANSAS CITY STAR

LINK:  BRADY QUINN POST GAME

LINK:  CHIEFS POSTGAME LOCKER ROOM

Three College Coaches Did Not Vote ND #1

The last vote of the college football season by the Coaches -- is made public.  And, fifty-six of the fifty-nine coaches voted NOTRE DAME #1 !!!

Here's the three who did not -- and where they placed the IRISH -- click on the link below to see how all of the coaches voted:

• James Franklin, Vanderbilt -- picked Notre Dame #4
• Tommy Tubberville, Texas Tech -- picked Notre Dame #2
• Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee State -- picked Notre Dame #2

(Photo above of Vanderbilt Coach James Franklin -- who picked Alabama, Georgia and Florida ahead of the IRISH -- all fellow member of the SEC.)

LINK:  FINAL USA TODAY / COACHES POLL

Former MLB Commissioner Talks Notre Dame

Come to find out -- Fay Vincent, the former CEO of Columbia Pictures and Commissioner of Major League Baseball -- is a Notre Dame fan.

Just this week he authored an editorial about the Fightin' Irish football team -- pretty cool!

LINK:  A LIFE LONG PASSION FOR NOTRE DAME

"Biggest BCS Underdog of All-Time" I LOVE IT !

It didn't take long for the media to turn on our Fightin' Irish...

Here's what they have to say less than 12 hours after Georgia 'runs out of time' -- and Bama squeaks by them.

WHAT THOUGH THE ODDS BE GREAT OR SMALL...


LINK:  ESPN'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL FINAL 

LINK:  BCS CHAMPIONSHIP WEBSITE

LINK:  CBS SPORTS

LINK:  SPORTING NEWS

LINK:  LINDY'S SPORTS

LINK:  YAHOO SPORTS

LINK:  BUSINESSWEEK

LINK:  ESPN

LINK:  BLEACHER REPORT