Tonight's Sugar Bowl matchup between #11 Michigan and #13 Virginia Tech just doesn't seem to carry the prestige of what you would expect from a BCS Bowl Game. I mean I even had a hard time of remembering that it was on tonight. With neither team being ranked in the Top 10, it seems llike more of what you would expect from a high profile out of conference season opener classic than from one of the most prestigious bowl games in college football. Perhaps I would feel more excited about it if I was actually partying in Champions Square right now and getting one more beverage in me before entering the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Now that I have bashed it, it will probably be the game of the year. Here is a game preview from The Washington Post::
Ever since the Sugar Bowl shocked the college football world by selecting Virginia Tech to face Michigan, it seems the discussion has centered on everything but the game.
We’ve written plenty about whether the Hokies deserve to be in New Orleans, their struggles in bowl games, how two kickers got in off-field trouble and even the potential that running back David Wilson and cornerback Jayron Hosley could be playing their final game in a Virginia Tech uniform. We even explored some of the reasons behind Michigan’s resurgence this season under first-year coach Brady Hoke.
But lost in all the rhetoric that inevitably occurs when there’s a month of build-up is the fact that on paper, Tuesday night’s Sugar Bowl pits two evenly matched teams. Just look at the similarities between Michigan and Virginia Tech after the jump.
To continue reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/hokies-journal/post/2012-sugar-bowl-poll-virginia-tech-or-michigan/2012/01/03/gIQAnaHBYP_blog.html
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