Marshall v. Northern Illinois
FAU Stadium -- Boca Raton, FL
December 23, 2014 -- 6:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
College football is about more than just the powerhouses. This matchup directly features 20 percent of the conference champions at the FBS level, and...
At first it seemed as though there wasn't going to be a BCS Buster in this final season before the College Football Playoff commences in the 2014-15 season. Fresno State fell to San Jose State the day after Thanksgiving, leaving NIU in position to repeat after last season's Orange Bowl berth. Then the Huskies bombed out against Bowling...
Nowadays the NCAA relies on a series of computer polls along with two human polls to determine the ranking of teams and where they are going to be placed for a bowl game. The problem with that? There are eight teams in the top 25 that have two losses, and three of them are 15th or higher, bet you can guess what conference they...
The 31-10 loss by Northern Illinois was not the finest hour in the history of BCS Busters, but neither was it the most embarrassing. For all the talk before and after January 1 about how undeserving the Huskies were of their spot in the Orange Bowl, the nightcap on New Year’s Day was as much an indictment of the Seminoles as it was...
