Sunday’s 6-pack:
Last six Heisman Trophy winners, how they did in their bowl games:
2022- Caleb Williams, USC- L45-46
2021- Bryce Young, Alabama- W27-16/L18-33
2020- DeVonta Smith, Alabama- W31-14/W52-24
2019- Joe Burrow, LSU- W63-28
2018- Kyler Murray, Oklahoma- L34-45
2017- Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma- L48-54, OT
Quote of the Day
“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones comes too infrequently, and if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.”
Norman Lear
Sunday’s quiz
Which college basketball team is known as the Anteaters?
Saturday’s quiz
Los Angeles Angels haven’t made the playoffs since 2014; they lost to Kansas City in that series.
Friday’s quiz
In the movie
For Love of the Game, Kevin Costner plays a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers; JK Simmons plays the manager of the Tigers.
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— Shohei Ohtani signed a 10-year, $700M contract with the Dodgers, setting all kinds of records for the biggest contract ever; a lot of the money will be in deferred payments, so LA has some ability to sign starting pitching- they’re little short on that right now.
There are stories how the Angels made $10-20M a year in advertisements when Ohtani was in Anaheim, so the Dodgers will get some of that $70M a year back, plus jersey sales, going to be lot of jerseys sold in Japan.
Dodgers-Padres open the 2024 regular season with couple of games in South Korea.
— LSU’s QB Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy, joining Joe Burrow, Billy Cannon as LSU alums who won the Heisman.
There were three quarterbacks among the four finalists for the award this year; all three of them transferred during their college career.
— Purdue 92, Alabama 86
Zach Edey scored 35 points, in his return to Toronto, his hometown.
Alabama was 19-46 on the arc, 10-18 inside the arc.
Purdue outscored the Crimson Tide 24-9 on the foul line.
— Clemson 74, TCU 66
Other game in Toronto was this battle of surprising unbeatens.
Clemson is now 9-0, vs schedule #32- improved team.
TCU is 7-1, but they’ve played easiest schedule in country so far.
— Tennessee 86, Illinois 79
All five Tennessee starters scored in double figures.
There were 62 foul shots in this game; lot of fouls.
Vols are 6-3, against the 6th-toughest schedule this season.
— Utah 73, BYU 69
First loss for BYU, which shot 7-30 on the arc.
Utah shot 64.5% inside the arc.
— Upsets of the Day:
Marshall (+9) 74, Ohio U 69
San Diego (+7.5) 89, Arizona State 84
South Florida (+7.5) 88, Florida State 72
Eastern Washington (+7.5), Air Force 68
Idaho (+6.5) 63,, Utah Tech 62
Saint Mary’s (+5.5) 64, Colorado State 61
Grand Canyon (+4.5) 69, Liberty 64
Washington (+4.5) 78, Gonzaga 73
— Word of the Day: Bonanza- a situation or event that creates a sudden increase in wealth, good fortune, or profits.
This week has been a bonanza for Shohei Ohtani.
— Penn State 83, Ohio State 80
Buckeyes led by 18 with 15:31 left in the game.
Both teams shot over 40% on the arc.
— Xavier 84, Cincinnati 79
Xavier outscored the Bearcats 22-10 on foul line.
First loss of season for 7-1 Bearcats; Xavier is 5-5.
— Villanova 65, UCLA 56
UCLA lost three of last four D-I games (beat Cal-Riverside by 1)
Villanova snaps three-game skid with this win.
Villanova is 5-2 vs top 100 teams, only 2-2 vs teams outside top 100.
— Rutgers 70, Seton Hall 63
Scarlet Knights win in this Garden State rivalry.
This is Rutgers’ first win in four top 100 games.
Seton Hall is now 0-4 vs top 100 teams.
— Auburn 104, Indiana 76
Tigers outscored Indiana 32-8 in last 10:00 of first half.
Auburn shot 14-29 on the arc.
Hoosiers start two frosh, two sophs, very young for this era.
— Washington 78, Gonzaga 73
Gonzaga’s 16-game win streak against the Pac-12 ends.
Three guys on Gonzaga played all 40:00; they’re not deep.
— Four of the country’s 12 unbeaten teams got beat Saturday.
