Holiday Bowl, December 19, at San Diego: One of the best and entertaining bowl games, with 10-1 BYU-which might have retained a shot at the national title had it not succumbed to New Mexico in the season opener-pitted against 8-3 Southern Methodist University. Will Houston rebound from an impotent SWC season? Will Navy catch Giants' disease in Rutherford? Unpredictable at best. Navy has only permitted 10.1 points per game, fifth in the nation. The only sure thing is whom President Carter will root for. An interesting matchup, Houston's potentially explosive offense against Navy's well-funded defense establishment. The 8-3 Midshipmen of Navy take on the disappointing 6-5 Cougars of Houston. Garden State Bowl, tomorrow, at East Rutherford, N.J. Powered by a partisan crowd and rushing offense that racked up nearly 300 yards a game, McNeese State should roll, 41-30. McNeese State is one of the schools that has sprung up in the state to steal the thunder of traditional force LSU. Few parts of the country take their football more seriously than Looziana, as the natives pronounce it. Independence Bowl, today, at Shreveport, La.: A powerful 10-1 McNeese State squares off against Southern Mississippi (8-3). A word of advice about these predictions-don't get bowled over. Here is a rundown of the bowl games, not including all-star contests. The only thing post-season college football lacks is its own Pro Bowl-short for probation or undergraduate professionals, whichever you prefer. There are the four major Bowls-Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton-the four next-to-major bowls-Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta-and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. Let's face it-there are 19 bowl games between now and January 17, plus professional football's countdown to the Super Bowl-football is forever. The second season of college football starts today, with the first of 19 semi-major or major bowl games-apologies to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the Zia Bowl and others that have already taken place.
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