There is consensus among the cogno prognos!
It will be, they and the undersigned say, Georgia vs Ohio State in one national semi-final in the Peach Bowl, and Michigan and TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. The winners advance to the national championship game on January 11, 2023.
Remarkably there is also consensus on a delicious menu in the so-called New Year's Six bowls, which number Four (Well, we have the Big 10 with 12 teams, the Big 12 with 10. They don't teach arithmetic in college!). Look at these mouth-watering morsels:
Rose Bowl, Penn State vs Utah.Cotton Bowl, USC-Tulane
Sugar Bowl, Alabama-Kansas State
And it will be a battle of the orange in the Orange Bowl, fittingly enough: Clemson and Tennessee.
Unfortunately, there is not consensus on where my beloved Pitt "Panthers" are going bowling. The Sporting News has us playing 9-3 O in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. The Holiday has long had a rep for presenting the most exciting contests between the best of the rest. The Holiday would be every Pitt fan's dream destination. I don't think it's going to happen, though. We "Panthers" fans "don't travel well", in the parlance. Traditionally we don't go to bowl games. Maybe San Diego on Dec. 28 in a prestigious bowl will be the right lure. But I doubt it. And I think the Holiday Bowl people, who want a sell-out, will be skittish about Pitt fans filling up their stadium. I think Jerry Palm of CBS Sports is wiser, Boston is the likelier destination. He projects Pitt and East Carolina in the Fenway Bowl, December 17.
I will be thrilled to follow Michigan and TCU and I am ecstatic at that New Year's Day lineup.
