by Michelle Richardson

New Mexico Bowl Utah State 21 vs.UTEP 6: This was not one of those bowl games where you ask yourself “who are they?” when asking about the Utah State Aggies who beat UTEP 21-6 on Saturday. Aggies quarterback Kent Myers threw for five completions in 12 attempts for 68 yards and was picked off once. Myers ran for a 48 yard keeper in the first quarter for a touchdown and Nick Virgil carried for three yards in third quarter to help the Aggies on offense.

Utah State had a better ground game than their air attack. UTEP went in to visit Utah St with a record of 7-1 now 7-2 and this is the third straight year that UTEP has gone to a bowl game but for Utah State this is the third straight year they’ve gone to a bowl game and won it. The last time UTEP won a bowl game was in 1967 in the Sun Bowl. Utah St definitely had a good program and they definitely had some good players. The Miners were just outplayed in this game on Saturday and were outmanned by Utah St who won 21-6 with only scoring a field goal in the first and the fourth quarter.

TCU (11-1) faces the Ole Miss Rebels (9-3) on New Years Eve Chick-Fil-A-Bowl: First of all TCU head coach Gary Patterson is a very much deserved winner of the Walter Camp coach of the year award. Nobody expected TCU to play the way they did this season and I’m here to tell you that TCU was robbed. The Horned Frogs were robbed and they were dropped from this first round of the playoffs. You don’t drop from being number three all the way down to number six.

You shouldn’t be taking it out against TUC because their conference doesn’t have a conference championship game. That has nothing to do with their play on the field. The Frogs got robbed and Ohio State and I understand there’s a lot of Buckeye fans out there and love the Buckeyes but I’m sorry they don’t belong in the Final Four. Also TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin was a Heisman Trophy winner or strong candidate as well.

This is Boykin’s junior year and this is his audition for an NFL combine and he’s basically auditioning for next year and will be the top Heisman candidate. I expect TCU to play Mississippi State very tough. Ole Miss doesn’t have all of us necessarily fooled but everybody watching them at the beginning of the year because they were setting the ACC on fire and they were just running the table.

The Bowl games are the most exciting part of the season: In football you have week 17 coming up in the NFL and the college bowl games. I’ll be honest with you there are still too many bowl games, I’m sorry but I’m tired of seeing these watered down bowl games. I liked the old school when you had about five bowl games and they all meant something. I get it that you want everybody from every conference but it’s just too saturated.

I’m sorry no more bowl games, do not add anymore bowl games because you got a stadium in your backyard. This is a very exciting time to be a football fan and the NCAA is going into the bowl games. Sit back and relax, quit listening to the pundits, quit listening to espn analyst Mel Kiper quit listening to everybody and sit back and enjoy the game. Enjoy the effort put out by these young men.

Michelle Richardson does commentary on the NCAA each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com