No. 22 Tulsa gets 3-win Mississippi St. in Armed Forces Bowl
December 30, 2020 GMT
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Three-win Mississippi State is set to wrap up coach Mike Leach’s first season by becoming the first Southeastern Conference team to play in the Armed Forces Bowl, with a chilly Texas weather forecast that includes rain and wind.
The former Texas Tech and Washington State coach chooses to believe his players are looking forward to facing No. 22 Tulsa on Thursday and trying to finish a losing season on a winning note.
“Everybody was excited about the opportunity to play, or at least it appeared that way to me,” said Leach, coaching a Texas bowl game for the third time since Texas Tech fired him in 2009 after 10 seasons. “Maybe somebody in there’s not, but he’ll get his stack of gear and hopefully that’ll make him happy.”
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The 2020 college football bowl season figures to be like none other, with COVID-19 issues causing some squads to opt out and bowl games having to be canceled because of a lack of participating teams.
Still, there are 28 bowl games left to keep us entertained between now and the Jan. 11 College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).
Here are the players and storylines to watch in each of those bowl games:
College Football Playoff
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Notre Dame
Friday, Jan. 1, 2021
4 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) – Will Rogers threw for 295 yards and three touchdowns to lead Mississippi State to a 51-32 victory over Missouri on Saturday.
After weeks of floundering offensively, Mississippi State (3-7, 3-7 Southeastern Conference) finally got many of their young weapons working in tandem. The Bulldogs racked up 446 yards of total offense in the game, including a season-high 151 yards on the ground. Their previous high was 87 yards in a loss to Arkansas in the second game of the year.
Missouri (5-5, 5-5) logged 342 yards of total offense, but many of them after the outcome of the game was already decided, and they turned the ball over four times. This is the second-straight .500 finish for the Tigers.
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