Two Minute Bowl Summary: The Brut Sun Bowl

By Spencer Hall
There’s a ton of bowl games, and you can’t watch them all if you have a real job. Fortunately, we don’t, so take advantage and use the Two Minute Bowl Review to stay current and sound like you know what you’re talking about.
Competitive? For a half. Oregon scored 28 unanswered points in the third quarter to smoke the ratings for the fourth quarter. Turning an 18-14 game at halftime into a 46-14 screamer will do that.
Relevant stat to quote like you actually watched the whole game if you didn’t: Three turnovers by USF in the third quarter, all converted into Oregon touchdowns. Also: 23 carries, 252 yards and a TD, or Oregon RB Jonathan Stewart’s massive day. Stewart allowed freshman QB Justin Roeper to use play-action effectively and throw for four TDs.
Sentence that makes it sound like you watched the whole game: “I hope Groethe’s OK.” This makes you sound like you not only watched well into the third quarter, where USF QB Matt Grothe turned the ball over twice, but also makes you sound like you saw Grothe get clobbered, stand up, and then collapse with an apparent shoulder injury and leave the game. It was mercy in disguise.
Is this game anything? Meaning, does it have meaning for next year, college football and the world beyond? Indubitably. Oregon recovered from a long, injury-riddled spin toward the middle of the Pac-10, showed its QB situation for next year is at least promising, and avoided a replay of last year’s bowl embarrassment in the Pioneer Purevision Las Vegas Bowl.
For USF ... well, it shows that it still has a ways to go as a program. It also puts the Bulls in the same category as the Houston Cougar: things beaten down in public by a Donald Duck clone in odd colors.

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