US NCAA Football Bowl Season begins Saturday, December 15th,
with no fewer than 6 Bowls. Already, the
BCS National Championship has been set, featuring Notre Dame, Clemson, Alabama
and Oklahoma. The first two will play
each other in the Cotton Bowl on the 29th of December, while the latter two
square off, the same day, in the Orange
Bowl. Winners will play in a month's
time in the national championship game, this year scheduled for Santa Clara,
California, on Monday, January 7th. 
Saturday College Football has a single game, the annual matchup
between the Naval Academy and West Point, Army vs. Navy. This game is chock full of tradition, this is
the 119th meeting between the two teams, so a good watch from at least half an
hour before the game, until fans and cadets from both academies sing each
others' school songs after the game is won by one of them. Navy has been the biggest winner of the
years, and leads the season. Army who had several difficult season, this year
is ranked in the top 25, and will not end its season at the game, instead
looking ahead to a bowl game.
The Army-Navy rivalry has often been known as patriotic — and
for years, one of the most lopsided in sports. Navy hooked an anchor to the
Commander-in-Chief's Trophy with a series-best 14-game winning streak from
2002-2015. President Trump will become the 10th Commander in Chief to watch the
game. By tradition he will conduct the
coin toss before the game, and at half time will walk across the field, to sit
on the opposite side during the second half.
Today's game will be played at Lincoln Financial Field, home
of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. If history foretells, President
Trump will likely see a close call: the
last three games have been decided by a total of 9 points and only once since
2010 has a team won by more than a touchdown.
Army will play Houston in the Armed Forces Bowl and was ranked for the
first time in 22 years. But for the upper classmen who experienced each
milestone, no thrill has compared to snapping the miserable losing streak to
Navy in 2016.
When the announcement
was made of the finalists for the 2018 Heisman Trophy, history was made as
well. For the first time in 84 years, the top three vote-getters are
quarterbacks of color: Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray, Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and
Ohio State’s Dwayne Haskins. The real
competition appears to be between Kyler Murray, the best player from the state
of Texas for many decades, and Tua Tagovailoa, who has been on fire this year,
and has made a name for himself by stellar play. Murray is also a top baseball player, and had
already signed a multi-million dollar pro contract with the Oakland As who game
him leave to play a final season of College Football. What a season it has been! The winner of the award will be announced this
afternoon in New York City.
The greatest Cricket in the world is being played today in
Adelaide. India continues their tour of
Australia, meeting the hosts in the first test at the Oval. Today is day three in the match, which is
currently being led by India, and the match is in the second innings. Mitchell
Starc is currently bowling, along with Nathan Lyon. K.L. Rahul and Murali Vijay are batting for
India and are currently not out.
