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A Winning Finale for UW and Jake Locker With Best Maybe Still Ahead

SAN DIEGO -- It wasn't Jake Locker's idea to stump for Heisman Trophy recognition last summer. Nor was it the University of Washington quarterback's idea last spring, when ESPN draftnik Mel Kiper touted him as the NFL's No. 1 draft pick for 2011. Juxtaposed against the hallucinations, er, dreams of others, Locker's 2010...

Washington Rolls to Stunning Upset Over Nebraska in Holiday Bowl

SAN DIEGO -- Payback, West Coast style, has produced the bowl season's first jaw-dropping upset. The Washington Huskies, unranked owners of a 6-6 record, defeated No. 17 Nebraska 19-7 in the Holiday Bowl on Thursday for UW's first postseason triumph since a Rose Bowl victory in 2001. Only three months ago, Nebraska...

Nebraska vs. Washington: Holiday Bowl

The Nebraska Cornhuskers (10-3) will face the Washington Huskies (6-6) for the second time this season. This time it will be in the Holiday Bowl, in San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, at 10 p.m. ET Thursday, Dec. 30. The first time the two teams met was all the way back on Sept. 18 and it was a massacre in favor of Nebraska,...

Washington Gets Jake Locker Big Finish

In essence, Washington quarterback Jake Locker returned to Seattle for another year, put his NFL draft stock and his body on the line, for this experience. Locker and the Huskies are headed to a bowl game. "It's really cool just to be able to be in there and have them explain this kind of stuff and look up at a schedule...

Pac-10 Report: Oregon Working Without Safety Net at Quarterback

Just when it seemed like things were going without a hitch for Oregon -- a clear, unimpeded path to the national title game -- the first significant hitch has arrived. Backup quarterback Nate Costa, who battled with Darron Thomas for the starting job in training camp, injured his knee in last week's win at Washington and...

Holiday Bowl News From the Web

04/09/12 Economic impact of local bowl games released Source: CBS - News 8 - San Diego CA The Holiday Bowl and Poinsettia Bowl had a combined economic impact of $26.1 million on San Diego last December, barely half of what the college football games generated in some recent years, according to study results released Monday by the San Diego Bowl Association.

Background on Holiday Bowl

The Holiday Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, since 1978. Beginning with the 2010 playing the bowl will officially be known as the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl after Bridgepoint Education signed on to replace Pacific Life as the bowl's title sponsor.

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