Holiday Bowl

Frye says to win tonight, Iowa must run the football, and that means Mike Saunders' final game as a Hawkeye must be a great memory.

It's the Hawkeyes and Cougars, the Holiday Bowl at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium.

So let's go inside San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium, where ESPN proudly presents the 14th annual Thrifty Car Rental Holiday Bowl.

It's the seventh team in the nation, the Iowa Hawkeyes, going against the Western Athletic Conference champion, Brigham Young Cougars.

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And one reason is the Brigham Young system, but you say there's something different about this guy.

absolutely he's doing things coaches and people said would never be done throwing for 15,000 yards I mean that's like beating Bob Beeman's long jump record they said it couldn't be done he does it with a combination of toughness leadership ability to throw the ball with touch and most of all a toughness and imagination of running the system and when he gets out of that system when he gets out of the pocket coaches say he's at his toughest

Well, last year, in the Holiday Bowl, he lost to Texas A&M 65-14, and they came at him with a hard, blitzing defensive unit.

Circuit City Bowl week continues tomorrow at ESPN with a full doubleheader in the afternoon Syracuse battles Kentucky at the HomePoint.com Music City Bowl live from Nashville at 4.

Then at primetime, our coverage begins with ball game night at 7.30 Eastern followed by the Culligan Holiday Bowl from San Diego.

The Washington Huskies taking out 10-1 K-State right here on ESPN, your home for bowl week.

Straight ahead with the handoff.

Here, Courtney Brown, look at him.

Look at the effort here that he's going to give in this ballgame.

I look for Kansas State to come out and play hard in that holiday bowl tomorrow night.

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how he won the game last night.

Young caught the pass and beat Missouri in the Holiday Bowl.

O'Meara now has come out of the ballgame.

McElhaney throwing.

But if you talk to Arizona defensive coordinator Danny Gonzalez – he'll tell you that BYU game planning started less than 48 hours after the season ended for Arizona on January 2nd.

So they played the Holiday Bowl January 2nd against SMU, and then on January 4th, that's when Danny Gonzalez started doing his defensive game planning for BYU.

And he told his defensive staff, we're not going on vacation until this game planning is done.

So they've had this game circled on the calendar, and Bear Bachmeier – who's a linebacker playing quarterback.

Ducks ranked sixth in the country, while Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa last week under new head coach Eric Morris.

This is Oregon's first ever trip to Stillwater, third all-time meeting between the programs after the Ducks' 69-3 win last year in Eugene, as well as their 2008 Holiday Bowl victory.

Oregon State hosting 13th-ranked Texas Tech tomorrow on CBS.

4.30 kickoff from Reaser Stadium.

Ducks ranked sixth in the country while Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa last week under new head coach Eric Morris.

This is Oregon's first ever trip to Stillwater.

Third all-time meeting between the programs after the Ducks' 69-3 win last year in Eugene as well as their 2008 Holiday Bowl victory.

Oregon State hosting 13th-ranked Texas Tech tomorrow on CBS.

Wow.

So they, they played the Holiday Bowl January 2nd against SMU, and then on January 4th, that's when Danny Gonzales started doing his defensive game planning for BYU.

And he told his defensive staff, "We're not going on vacation until this game planning is done." So they've had this game circled on the calendar.

And Bear Bachmeier, who's a linebacker playing quarterback, I mean, that guy is just a absolute freight train.

So I think that, you know, he is such a great in-game coach.

And as far as X's and O's, he can make the right adjustments.

You know, I go back to that Holiday Bowl against SMU where Arizona was just getting thrashed by Kevin Jennings and that SMU offense.

And Danny went to the drawing board and said, "All right," Chip Viney, Arizona's cornerbacks coach, "Give me your four best corners." And he gave him his four best corners.

Really? Yeah, I don't think so.

Probably Holiday Bowl.

Tampa for sure.

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