Bowl season is upon us. Although I would prefer a playoff for the top 8 or 10 teams and the national championship to be sooner…but oh well.
Today we have these games form ESPN:
| 12:00 PM ET | Northwestern vs. Texas Tech* TICKETCITY BOWL |
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| 1:00 PM ET | No. 16 Alabama vs. No. 9 Michigan State* CAPITAL ONE BOWL |
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| 1:00 PM ET | Florida vs. Penn State* OUTBACK BOWL |
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| 1:30 PM ET | No. 21 Mississippi State vs. Michigan* PROGRESSIVE GATOR BOWL |
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| 4:30 PM ET | No. 5 Wisconsin vs. No. 3 TCU* ROSE BOWL GAME PRESENTED BY VIZIO |
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| 8:30 PM ET | Connecticut vs. No. 7 Oklahoma* TOSTITOS FIESTA BOWL |
‘Bama and MSU looks like a good match up. ANd that Wisconsin v TCU game is going to be HUGE for TCU’s program as they enter Big East play next season. Wisconsin is no slouch, a win for TCU here shuts up the critics permanently.
UPDAT WITH SOME BREAKING PICS
GIANT STORM ON SATURN: Got a telescope for Christmas? Point it at Saturn. A giant storm even brighter than Saturn’s rings is raging through the planet’s cloudtops. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says veteran planetary photographer Anthony Wesley. “It’s possible that this is the biggest storm on Saturn in many decades.” Here it is recorded by Wesley’s 16-inch telescope on Dec. 22nd:
Instruments on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are picking up strong bursts of radio static. Apparently, lightning is being generated in multiple cells across the storm front. Cassini’s cameras are also beaming back fantastic images of the tempest.
“At it’s current size and brightness, the storm should be visible to anyone with a mid-size scope under steady seeing,” continues Wesley. “This is a great time to be a planetary photographer.” [Sky maps: Dec. 29, 30, 31]
more images: from Fredy Willems of Waipahu, Hawaii; from Glenn Jolly of Gilbert, Arizona; from Christopher Go of Cebu City, Philippines; from Sadegh Ghomizadeh of Tehran, Iran; from Vincent Lao of Pasig City, Philippines
Tags: ncaa football, Open thread
