It's a wrap for the Bowl Holiday Weekend. For the dedicated followers of football fashion this was quite a weekend. Tom Petty had it right when he penned "even the losers get lucky sometimes." Ole Miss, which hadn't been to a bowl game since Manning The Younger attended that historic campus in Oxford, Mississippi, put a pasting a heavily favored Texas Tech squad that had lost only one time (against Oklahoma) coming into this Cotton Bowl game. Sweet!

Kentucky, which was 6-6 going into the Liberty Bowl, bested an East Carolina squad that was 9-4 before it fumbled away in historic fashion a chance for a 10 win season. A really entertaining upset and ball game on January 2, 2009.

The evening of January 2, 2009 was the ultimate capper for the whole stupid fraud of BCS (Bowl Conspiracy Syndicate) designed games. Utah came into the Sugar Bowl undefeated and a heavy underdog to the Alabama Crimson Tide. By the time Alabama's coach, Nick Saban, figured out what Utah's no-huddle first quarter offense was doing, The Tide was down 3 touchdowns. Alabama did get to within four at 21-17 in the third quarter but then was buried under a ferocious Utah pass rush and interceptions. Utah won going away.  

It was bizarre watching Saban, the coach of Alabama, give no respect to the Utah team for a very convincing win. The Alabama coach used one excuse after another, including his own decision to sit a star lineman for a team infraction, as reasons for this loss. Saban makes a ton of money coaching at Alabama after walking out on the Miami Dolphins two seasons ago. He ended his tenure of two seasons of mediocrity in the NFL by lying to the Dolphins owner about his intentions and commitment and was hired by Alabama to mold young student athletes.

But the Utah Utes received no respect at any point this year, certainly not from the networks or the print media. This team beat the only team that put a loss on USC this year and went undefeated for 13 games. The 4 pretenders to the BCS crown Oklahoma, Texas, Florida and USC can't make that claim. 

Utah is number one. If you buy all the soap that writers and advertising geeks are selling in order for you to watch the Anti-Climatic Bowl games of one and two loss football teams this coming week  it still won't wash away the bad smell of having this great Utah team getting the shaft from a greedy and corporate Bowl Conspiracy Syndicate.