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Alabama Crushes Michigan State in Capital One Bowl

By Tim PovtakJan 1st 2011 – 4:13PM

ORLANDO, Fla. -- This was a performance worthy of the defending national champions. Makes you wonder about those few lapses in between. The Alabama Crimson Tide looked as powerful as they ever have, bulldozing No. 7 Michigan State Saturday from end to end Saturday to win the Capital One Bowl, 49-7, before 61,519. Alabama...

Alabama vs. Michigan State: Capital One Bowl 2011

By FanHouse StaffJan 1st 2011 – 10:30AM

The Alabama Crimson Tide will take on the Michigan State Spartans in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1, 2011 at 1 p.m. ET in Orlando, Fla. It's a matchup that features closely tied head coaches, as Nick Saban was once head coach at Michigan State -- and current MSU head coach Mark Dantonio was an assistant under Saban....

Pickin' on the Big Ten: Bowl Picks Part 2

By Mark HastyDec 31st 2010 – 9:45AM

With five games on New Year's Day and one in the week leading up to the BCS Championship Game, the Big Ten has only begun to fight. I previewed the TicketCity and Gator Bowls in Part 1 of my bowl picks, but here are my picks for the rest of the Big Ten's 2011 bowl games. Capital One Bowl: Alabama vs. Michigan State The...

Oklahoma St., Ole Miss Likely in Cotton

By Terrance HarrisDec 1st 2009 – 3:11PM

The secondary bowls are beginning to get their ducks in a row. Multiple reports out of Dallas Tuesday said the AT&T Cotton Bowl has extended invitations to Oklahoma State and Ole Miss to meet in the Jan. 2 game at Jerry Jones' new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The invitation and acceptance will not be official...

Big Ten Lives Up to Expectations in Bowl Games With A 1-5 Record So Far

By Mark HastyJan 2nd 2009 – 12:46PM

1-5, with one game to go. One chance left to raise the conference's winning percentage to a mighty .285. And that chance rests on the less-than-broad shoulders of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Expecting the Buckeyes to show up in a big nonconference game is like expecting a bridge made out of meringue to hold up underneath a...

Background on capital one bowl

The Capital One Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Orlando, Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the Tangerine Bowl (1947–1982) and the Florida Citrus Bowl (1983–2002).

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