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COLLEGE FOOTBALL-BOWLS
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northern Illinois busts the BCS, going to Orange Bowl
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0MIAMI (AP) – Northern Illinois out of the Mid-American Conference has busted the BCS, and is heading to the Orange Bowl to play ACC champion Florida State.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northern Illinois actually finished ahead of two conference titlists, Big East winner Louisville and Big Ten champion Wisconsin, in the final BCS standings.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dave Doeren will not coach the Huskies in the Orange Bowl. He
\nwas hired Saturday as the new coach at North Carolina State.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In other big bowl matchups:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –After missing out on the BCS, Big 12 co-champion Oklahoma will
\ninstead take on Johnny Football, freshman sensation Johnny Manziel,
\nand former conference rival Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – No. 4 Florida will meet No. 22 Louisville in the Sugar Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — No. 6 Georgia will play Nebraska in the Capital One Bowl on
\nNew Year’s Day.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Oregon will meet Kansas State in another marquee matchup at
\nthe Fiesta Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Wisconsin believes its third straight trip to the Rose Bowl
\ncould be the charm when it plays Stanford.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — Georgia Tech is heading back to the Sun Bowl for the second
\nstraight year and will face underachieving Southern California.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 17th-ranked UCLA Bruins and Baylor Bears will play each
\nother for the first time when they meet in the Holiday Bowl on Dec.
\n27 at Qualcomm Stadium.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Utah State and Toledo have accepted invitations to play in the
\nFamous Idaho Potato Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – LSU will face Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Conference USA champion Tulsa will get another shot at Iowa
\nState when the teams meet in the Liberty Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Vanderbilt will only have to travel a few miles from campus
\nfor its bowl game, the Music City Bowl against N.C. State.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Michigan State and Texas Christian will meet in the Buffalo
\nWild Wings Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Fresno State says it has accepted an invitation to play SMU in
\nthe Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu on Christmas Eve.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Central Florida’s loss in the Conference USA championship game
\nhas the Knights staying close to home for the holidays against Ball
\nState in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –Minnesota will face Texas Tech in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in
\nHouston on Dec. 28.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –Oklahoma State and Purdue will finally play again – 15 years
\nlater in the Heart of Dallas Bowl played at the historic Cotton
\nBowl on New Year’s Day.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — Texas will make a short postseason trip to face No. 15 Oregon
\nState in the Alamo Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Bowling Green has accepted an invitation to play San Jose
\nState in the Military Bowl in the Nation’s Capital.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Louisiana-Monroe, playing in its first bowl game, will meet
\nOhio in the Independence Bowl.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – The Duke Blue Devils will make their first bowl appearance
\nsince 1994, taking on the Cincinnati Bearcats in the 11th annual
\nBelk Bowl Dec. 27 in Charlotte.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Rutgers and Virginia Tech will square off in the Russell
\nAthletic Bowl on Dec. 28.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – No. 11 South Carolina is headed to the Outback Bowl to face
\nNo. 19 Michigan.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Syracuse is headed back to the Pinstripe Bowl for the second
\ntime in three years and will face former Big East foe West Virginia
\non Dec. 29 in Yankee Stadium.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – The Las Vegas Bowl will have a Northwest flavor with a matchup
\nfeaturing No. 20 Boise State and Washington.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — It’s hometown favorite San Diego State against BYU in the
\nPoinsettia Bowl on Dec. 20.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – No. 25 Kent State will meet Arkansas State in the GoDaddy.com
\nBowl in the first bowl appearance in 40 years for the Golden
\nFlashes.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Pittsburgh is making its third straight trip to the BBVA
\nCompass Bowl, facing a resurgent Mississippi team.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers will play in the Little
\nCaesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit on Dec. 26 against Central Michigan.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –Nevada faces Arizona in the New Mexico Bowl on Dec. 15.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — And Northwestern and Mississippi State tangle in the Gator
\nBowl on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLEGE FOOTBALL-BOWLS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northern Illinois busts the BCS, going to Orange Bowl \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0MIAMI (AP) – Northern Illinois out of the Mid-American Conference has busted the BCS, and is heading to the Orange Bowl to play ACC champion Florida State. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northern Illinois actually finished ahead of two conference titlists, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}