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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, November 21, 1968
Sports Desk
owl Picture
Clearing
by John Platzer
With the champions of such major conferences as the
Southwest, the Big- 10, the Big 8 and Western Athletic yet
to be crowned, the nation’s bowl picture is already beginning
to come into sharp focus.
Once again it is clear that America’s millions of foot
ball fans will be tired, bleary-eyed and sick of football at
10 o’clock on the night of January 1. This condition, as in
the past, will last all of two days before the talk turns to
the 1969 season and the ordering of tickets.
Four years ago the Orange Bowl defied tradition by
matching Texas and Alabama in a New Year’s night game
and they have been cashing in on the idea ever since. This
year the Miami attraction once again seems to have come
up with one of the two best post-season pairings in Penn
State and Kansas.
Penn State, currently number three in each poll, has
posted an 8-0 record with only Pittsburgh and Syracuse left
on their schedule. Pepper Rodgers’ Jayhawks are rated
sixth in the national polls and have lost only to Oklahoma
in nine games. The high-scoring Kansans will wrap up a tie
for the Big 8 championship with a victory over Missouri
this weekend and then proceed to leave the Nittany Lions’
hopes for an undefeated season wrecked on the Florida
beach.
California’s Rose Bowl, the grand-daddy of all bowls,
will match Southern Cal against Michigan. The Wolverines
will gain the spot with an upset victory over second-ranked
Ohio State this weekend and then complete the job by stop
ping O. J. Simpson and the top-ranked Trojans. These
events will leave Southern Cal and Michigan with identical
10-1 marks while Ohio State will finish with a 9-1 record.
Tennessee has nailed down the guest spot in Dallas’
Cotton Bowl against SWC champion-to-be Arkansas. The
Razorbacks, who will get the host spot by virtue of a victory
over Texas Tech this Saturday while the Aggies are knock
ing off TU on Turkey Day, will unleash Sophomore quarter
back Bill Montgomery on the Vols to end the year with a
10-1 record.
The loss will drop Tennessee to an 8-2-1 slate for the
season.
Darrell Royal’s Longhorns will take a 7-2-1 mark to
New Orleans and the Sugar Bowl where they will run
head-on into the Georgia Bulldogs. The Southwestern Con
ference champions of Coach Vince Dooley will chalk up
their ninth victory of the season in the game against two
ties.
Judge Roy Hofheinz decided that he wanted his own
personal bowl game this year and, since down Houston way
what the Judge wants the Judge gets, the Bluebonnet
Bowl was moved from Rice Stadium to the Harris County
Domed Stadium and New Year’s eve. Southern Methodist
and Oklahoma will be the featured teams with the Mus
tangs recording a surprisingly easy victory over the Sooners.
The win, which naturally will be engineered by the
passing combination of Chuck Hixon to Jerry Levias, will
give the Ponies an 8-3 record for the year while Oklahoma
will close out with a 7-4 slate.
The Gator Bowl which will be played in Jacksonville,
Florida on December 28 has come up with a better-than-
average pairing of Paul “Bear” Bryant’s Crimson Tide
against Missouri.
Alabama will lose its last regular season game against
state-rival Auburn but will bounce back to wallop Missouri.
Afterall when was the last time Bryant lost two bowl games
in a row? The win will give the Tide an 8-3 record while
Missouri will post a 7-4 mark.
In its inaugural season, the Peach Bowl set for Atlanta,
Georgia has come up with an attraction that should be of
special interest to Aggie fans. Two of A&M’s pre-conference
foes Florida State and Louisiana State square off in a match
that will be won by the Seminoles. Florida State will end
the campaign with a 9-2 record while the Tigers will post
a 7-4 mark.
El Paso’s Sun Bowl did a good job in getting highly-
respected Auburn for one of its spots. Auburn’s opponent
will be Arizona, the WAC’s champion-to-be. Arizona will
gain the slot with a win over Wyoming this weekend but
will have to settle for a 9-2 record when Auburn ends their
season on a winning note and a 8-3 record.
In case the reader has yet to realize as much the pre-
ceeding was based 1% on fact and 99% on emotion.
The skeptics, if there dare be any, may go ahead and
watch the games although after this colmn there is no real
reason to. This writer will watch the games even though
the outcomes are already known for what better way is there
to spend the holidays then to see Texas University at Austin
go down to its second straight defeat?
Television Is The Only Hobby
For San Diego’s Big Elvin
By ED SCHUYLER JR.
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK — Maybe if
the San Diego Rockets’ oppon
ents took television sets out of
hotel rooms, they could upset
Elvin Hayes. They sure don’t
seem to be bothering him on the
court.
“I like to be to myself, I just
watch television,” says Hayes,
the Big E from Houston who is
the most talked-about rookie in
the National Basketball Associa
tion since Oscar Robertson, Cin
cinnati’s Big O, joined the league
out oi tne notei since i ve been
here and I’m going right back to
the hotel.”
Hayes’ remarks concerned the
trip he took out of a New York
hotel Tuesday night for the Rock
ets who arrived Monday and left
Wednesday.
On his venture out into the big
city he dropped by Madison
Square Garden, where he scored
39 points, grabbed 17 rebounds,
blocked four shots and helped the
Rockets beat the New York
Knickerbockers 113-107.
Hayes, who has moved to for
ward after beginning the season
at center, scored 17 of his points
in the first quarter.
His performance Tuesday night
gave the fluid, 6-foot-9!£, 235
pounder 483 points for a 30.2
Besides watching television on
the road, and spending time with
his wife and son at home, Hayes’
one interest is basketball.
“Like, you know. I’ve got noth
ing else to do,”
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