I said to Mom at 1:30 this afternoon, “There are two more football games today!” She was decidedly unimpressed.

Oregon appears to be equally unimpressed or unsentimental about Texas coach Mack Brown’s last game; the Ducks are up 23 – 7 over Brown’s Longhorns early in the third quarter of the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio.

Earlier Navy beat Middle Tennessee State in the Armed Forces Bowl 24 – 6 in Fort Worth, while Mississippi beat Georgia Tech in the Music City Bowl in Nashville. Later this evening Arizona State plays Texas Tech in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.