My Bowl Picks

Here's my bowl picks for the rest of the bowl season (starting with the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl). No confidence picks or picking with a spread, it's just strictly who I think is going to win the game.

Think you can beat me in pick'em? The ones I picked correct are in green and the incorrect ones are in red

Pizza Bowl: Ohio over Marshall

Car Care Bowl: Pitt over UNC

Emerald Bowl: Boston College over USC

Music City Bowl: Clemson over Kentucky

Independence Bowl: Texas A&M over Georgia

EagleBank Bowl: Temple over UCLA

Champs Sports Bowl: Miami over Wisconsin

Humanitarian Bowl: Idaho over Bowling Green

Holiday Bowl: Arizona over Nebraska

Armed Forces Bowl: Houston over Air Force

Sun Bowl: Stanford over Oklahoma

Texas Bowl: Missouri over Navy

Insight Bowl: Iowa State over Minnesota

Chik-Fil-A Bowl: Tennessee over Virginia Tech

Outback Bowl: Northwestern over Auburn

Capital One Bowl: Penn State over LSU

Gator Bowl: West Virginia over Florida State

Rose Bowl: Oregon over Ohio State

Sugar Bowl: Florida over Cinncinati

International Bowl: South Florida over Northern Illinois

PappaJohns Bowl: South Carolina over UConn

Cotton Bowl: Ole Miss over Oklahoma State

Liberty Bowl: Arkansas over East Carolina

Alamo Bowl: Texas Tech over Michigan State

Fiesta Bowl: TCU over Boise State

Orange Bowl: Iowa over Georgia Tech

GMAC Bowl: Central Michigan over Troy

National Championship: Alabama over Texas

RECORD: 11-15

The Last Paterno Post of the Day

Once again, Happy Birthday Coach, Hope to see you on the sidelines for many more years to come.

(Cake photo credit: Jay Paterno's twitter @JayPaterno)

The Joe Pa Birthday Tribute continues...

Other Great December 21 Moments

Here's some of the other great things that also occurred on Joe Pa's birthday...

-Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock (1620)
-First cross-word puzzle publishes in New York World (1913)

Other Birthdays:
-Jane Fonda (1937)
-Samuel L. Jackson (1948)
-Ray Romano (1957)

Joe Pa twirls batons, sells donuts, and tells Presidents to "shove it"

Stuff that Happened in 1966 (The Year Joe Pa became head coach at PSU)

President: Lyndon Johnson

Cost of a Stamp: $0.05

Best Picture: The Sound of Music

Best Album: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra

Noteworthy events:
-Medicare begins
-The FDA decides that "the pill" is safe for human use
-The first "Star Trek" episode airs on television

Deaths: Walt Disney

Sports: Texas Western defeats Ketucky in the NCAA Basketball National Championship


(Source: infoplease.com)

COME TO PENN STATE!