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Me: "Boy I'm hung done from past night. I wonder what vessel halt is on at 1 p.m."
TV: "What's in your wallet?"
Me: "Kill me!"

Indeed, possibly the peak natty non-BCS match-up of the 2006 vessel season, Arkansas hostile Wisconsin, will be rag by storming Vikings, dense dads cashing in bad frequent-flier miles, and David Spade as a call-center hand. Thank sphere for Tivo.

The Capital One Bowl, afterlife referred to as the Former Florida Citrus Bowl, happens in Orlando, and often boasts the close, the crazy and the silly. This very Wisconsin squad force off a beautiful big 24-10 bother complete Auburn ending year; two time of life ago, Iowa linked on a last-second Hail Mary to bemuse LSU; in 2004, Georgia toppled Purdue in overtime; in 2003, Auburn pulsation Penn St. 13-9. This year's halt will characteristic institute football's world-class first-year moving back, Wisconsin's P.J. Hill (1,533 yards rushing, 15 TDs) hostile body football's best possible second-year moving back, Heisman contender Darren McFadden (1,558 yards rushing, 14 TDs). At this barb in their careers, McFadden is the more than terrifying player, and is a sure home-run danger on every play, time Hill is a big (242 lb.), downward-sloping malefactor who reprimanded Big Ten opponents most every chance he got in '06.

The real cross-question around the FFCB is: How "real" is Wisconsin's 11-1 record? They solely compete one intensely good team, and gone astray at Michigan, 27-13. Their non-conference schedule built-in Bowling Green, Western Illinois, San Diego St. and Buffalo, for which they should be horrified. (Arkansas may have compete cupcakes suchlike Utah St., Southeast Missouri St. and Louisiana-Monroe, but at least possible they hosted USC.) By a unfamiliarity of the schedule, Wisconsin also avoided Ohio St. this year, and while they did win at traditionally strong places similar Purdue and Iowa, the Big Ten was peak incontestably feathers once more in 2006. So the superlative cumulative book the Badgers collected in '06 are at least a micro fishy. Sure, statistically Wisconsin boasts the nation's best pass defense, the third-best overall defense, and the third-best rating defending team in the country, but their single hierarchal opponent, those annoying Wolverines, scored a season-high 27 on them, and ran for 111 yards time throwing for 199. Arkansas's running charge is at lowest as dutiful as Michigan's (and McFadden is a greater player than Mike Hart). I can't see any way the Badgers clench the Razorbacks to a lesser amount of than 150 yards on the crushed.

That said, I don't mull over that needfully disqualifies them from victorious this game. Wisconsin's protecting scheme will be to key on McFadden similar to crazy, and try to inhibit his gaolbreak capacity (as fit as his accretion Felix Jones's). The Badgers will try and put the ball in the safekeeping of Arkansas quarterbacks Casey Dick and Mitch Mustain, who've through with aught this twelvemonth to show they're able of carrying a social unit (combined, they've down 19 TDs and 13 INTs - 16 TDs with 11 INTs in SEC comedy - and hardly eclipsed a 50% play charge per unit). The Badgers just gave up 139 yards passing per halting (second in the land), and allowed six TD passes compared near 13 interceptions. There's small inquiring Houston Nutt and Arkansas will have to put together a activity formulate to do several mess up via the air, and I regard as that'll be firm for Dick and Mustain to get that done.

On the otherwise lateral of the ball, Hill has the control of running down OT Joe Thomas, who could be a top-five pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. But different Arkansas, Wisconsin has shown they can toss it a little: they rated 48th internally in outdo yards per halting (and 26th running), and will particularly be buoyed by the come flooding back of starting QB John Stocco, who set-apart a body part and lost the Badgers' vital two games. TE Travis Beckum (team-high 56 receptions for 821 yards) will be a rubbery reference point for the Razorbacks' linebackers to hang around with, and Stocco (15 TDs, four picks) will promulgation the orb around to his wideouts. Arkansas gets a very good surpass pitch from DE Jamaal Anderson, and the squad was nice against the hurry (3.7 yards per transport and 124 yards per game, 47th across the country).

For me, this team game comes low to whether McFadden's unchallenged starring all-powerfulness overcomes Arkansas's drought of rude be a foil for. We're speaking more or less the #4 run beset and the #105 fugacious invasion. The Badgers won't be able to finish McFadden and Jones, but if they can negligent them down, that can be enough. Wisconsin is 8-1 in opposition the distributed in their later ix non-conference games, 19-7-2 ATS in their ultimate 28 games as an underdog, 4-0-1 ATS in their concluding 5 opposed to teams next to champion records, and 7-2-1 in their past 10 after straight-up wins. By contrast, Arkansas is 1-5 ATS in their concluding six non-conference tilts, and 0-5 ATS in their concluding cardinal in games following contests in which they allowed 200 or more running yards (and 2-5 ATS in their final seven succeeding a straight-up loss). It's scary to trust on a Wisconsin squad that wasn't challenged by a specially sturdy schedule, and it's alarming not to deciding the squad who'll phase the good artist in the lame. If Arkansas can brainstorm the run-game explosiveness that horrified Auburn (at Auburn), Wisconsin won't have a colorful in hell on earth. But I cogitate the Badgers can reduce McFadden's oversize drama (they'd enhanced), bring in the quarterbacks convey more than of the load, and compose enough long drives of their own on behavior to resource the lame a lot cover up. For these reasons, and for the trends I've mentioned, I'm winning Wisconsin ( 2) complete Arkansas in the FFCB. And I optimism by Monday afternoon, once you ask me what's in my wallet, I'll have a miniscule more than to concert.

Regular Season: Our finishing decision making of the body football game symmetric season, San Jose St. handsome four antagonistic Fresno St., was a relatively natural cover, as the Spartans won antagonistic the contender Bulldogs, 24-14. That helped us sheathe up other eminent body football game season, beside an overall journal of 9-5 hostile the implant. Here's hoping we can hold on to it active through the vessel period of time.