ECU vs. Ohio, 2013 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl: Pirates bask in burger splendor

Ohio had been to just three bowls before Tettleton’s arrival, but including his redshirt year, he took part in five of them, and he started for the last three. He was the engine for the Bobcats’ first-ever bowl win, a dramatic comeback over Utah State in Boise in 2011, and he was phenomenal in Ohio’s destruction of ULM in Shreveport in 2012. In his three years as a starter, Ohio went 26-13, and for a program that was devoid of huge seasons before his arrival, that speaks volumes.

At the same time, Tettleton really didn’t improve very much. A shaky offensive line didn’t help, but his passer rating sank from 148.9 as a sophomore to 141.2 as a junior and 138.8 as a senior. He threw 12 interceptions in 2013, a career high, and with Ohio facing a turn of momentum midway through the fourth quarter of Monday’s loss to ECU in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, he suffered from some serious glitches in his decision-making.

Brett Favre has decided he is never going to lace ‘em up again and give it one more go. However, he may very well have a little bit more magic in his arm: in his quest to promote some app he’s getting paid to promote, he’s making his bowl picks, and to show that he’s excessively bored with his current life as a high school football coach, he’s doing it by making drawings:

Here’s mine:

East Carolina piled up more than 560 yards of offense on the way to a 37-20 victory over Ohio in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl on Monday afternoon. The Pirates started and finished strong in this one, though the game was in doubt well into the fourth quarter.

ECU ended that Ohio scoring run with a field goal, giving the Pirates a 17-14 edge headed into halftime.

Conference USA East runner-up East Carolina will face Ohio in the 2013 Beef ‘O’Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla. Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET on Monday, December 23 at Tropicana Field. ESPN will handle the broadcast.

Rankings and records: Neither team is ranked or receiving votes in the major polls.

It’s that time of year, when the portions of the country that aren’t Florida (and surrounding areas) learn that there is a restaurant chain called Beef ‘O’ Brady’s.

It sells things like the OMG Burger, Nuclear Wings, the Santa Fe Burger (evidently a quesadilla with a hamburger patty in the middle), the Buffalo Chicken Salad, and the 23-ounce Sangria Rita. As with many American chains, some of the dishes sound like they belong on Guy Fieri’s special Oakland Raiders spread, but because we’re only told about Beef ‘O’ Brady’s once a year, it becomes a novelty of sorts.