It’s halftime of the Alamo Bowl. Underdog BYU leads Colorado 20-0.

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7 players are still battling for the 4 playoff spots.

• Diss (9-4)
• Joel (11-2)
• Lil Londo (9-4)
• Papa (10-3)
• Princess P (11-2)
• Retro (10-3)
• Vivers (11-2)

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A BYU win …

• Eliminates nobody
• Locks Vivers into a playoff spot.

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A Colorado comeback …

• Eliminates Lil Londo
• Locks Joel & Princess P into half of the playoff spots.

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Post-Alamo Bowl standings will be updated on Sunday morning. Additional playoff analysis will be posted later in the day.

You need two screens to follow our only concurrent Bowl Battles of the season. Louisiana and TCU kicked at 1:15 on ESPN in the New Mexico Bowl. Iowa State and Miami play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl on ABC at 2:30.

5 more players are at risk of elimination in those two battles. What they need to survive …

• ella bella needs wins by Louisiana AND Miami.
• GatorNurse and Noah need a Miami win.
• lil londo needs TCU OR Miami to win.
• MissyE needs wins by Lousiana AND Iowa St.

If you are in the hunt but not listed above, you will survive until tonight’s Alamo Bowl.

Chase, Commish, Orange Power, QKarlo, and SOUM all need the No Names from Boston College to beat the Bugeaters from Nebraska to survive past today’s 11:00 Pinstripe Bowl!

• Nobody is eliminated if Boston College wins.
• Chase, Commish, Orange Power, QKarlo, and SOUM are eliminated if Nebraska wins.
• Diss picked BC but will survive with a loss.
• Boston College formed a football team in 1892 but lacked a mascot or nickname before they became the Eagles in 1920.

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Before 1900, Nebraska football teams were known by such names as the Old Gold Knights, Antelopes, Rattlesnake Boys and the Bugeaters. In its first two seasons (1890-91), Nebraska competed as the Old Gold Knights, but beginning in 1892, Nebraska adopted Scarlet and Cream as its colors and accepted the Bugeaters as its most popular nickname until the turn of the century. Named after the insect-devouring bull bats that hovered over the plains, the Bugeaters also found their prey in the Midwest, enjoying winning campaigns in every year of the 1890s until a disappointing season in 1899.

The paint may be close to drying on the playoff picture at the end of today’s 4 battles.

Diss could remain a wildcard after today as she has the underdogs on Monday and Tuesday. Papa, Chase, and SOUM are the others who picked Michigan in our final battle.

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Congrats to Princess P and Joel for moving into first place on the back of USC’s last-second win in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Among the 16 playoff contenders, there are 10 unique combinations of picks for today’s games. The odds of the remaining players going 4 – 0 today …

Note there is a 68.5% chance that at least one person goes undefeated today. Princess P holds the best odds of keeping her hot streak alive among the two leaders.

Tomorrow brings 4 of our final 6 battles and 11 hours of Bowl Battle football!

Pending the outcome of Friday’s late-night Las Vegas Bowl, we’ll start the day with 15 or 16 (of 27) players still vying for a playoff spot.

Standings will be updated throughout the day.

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You DO NOT want to see your name in the following quad chart. 7 players are at risk of being eliminated tonight.

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For the six players rooting especially hard for the Red Raiders!!!!

Texas Tech Fight Song

Fight, Raiders, Fight! Fight, Raiders, Fight!
Fight for the school we love so dearly.
You’ll hit ’em high, you’ll hit ’em low.
You’ll push the ball across the goal,
Tech, Fight! Fight!

We’ll praise your name, boost you to fame.
Fight for the Scarlet and Black.
You will hit ’em, you will wreck ’em.
Hit ’em! Wreck ’em, Texas Tech!
And the Victory Bells will ring out!

Written by Carroll McMath