The 2015 Heisman ceremony will have more snubs than finalists

Three’s a crowd? In a year with few obvious Heisman Trophy frontrunners and lots of interesting candidates, only three finalists were selected to come to New York for the ceremony. Alabama running back Derrick Henry, Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey, and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson all got the nod, but the story immediately afterward was who got snubbed. Would’ve been a good year to have many more finalists, but the voting setup (each voter can only list three players) makes it tricky when there are three big favorites.

Now let’s talk bowls. Bill Connelly came up with a very scientific way to rank each of the 40 (40!) bowl games this year. You’ll be surprised to learn the Playoff semifinals rank pretty highly! You should keep an eye out for those!

Speaking of games people are looking forward to, if you were planning on attending the Rose Bowl, I hope you’ve been saving for a while. Tickets are averaging over $500 a pop, roughly four times that of other major bowl games. And if you want to go to the BYU vs. Utah Las Vegas Bowl, I hope you’ve already purchased them. The game sold out in less than a day.

Uh oh. Steve Sarkisian is suing USC for wrongful termination, alleging that the school failed to accommodate his alcoholism as a disability. The discovery process would almost certainly make both sides look bad, so this seems like a good candidate for a settlement.

That’s good wagerin’. We have the odds for every bowl game collected in one place for your enjoyment. Maybe the most notable thing to take away right now is that nine out of 10 SEC teams opened as favorites in their bowls. Even with those odds, Team Speed Kills is not terribly enamored with the watchability of the conference’s bowl slate.

Adversarial. A subplot heading into the College Football Playoff semifinals will be Nick Saban facing his old team, Michigan State. The Spartans took a while to really get on their feet under Mark Dantonio, who was on Saban’s MSU staff as a defensive backs coach, but now they’ve got a Playoff football team, the top-ranked basketball team in the country, and ... the third-ranked debate team in the nation.

Remember the last Clemson-Oklahoma bowl? It was last year. Tigers DC Brent Venables became a GIF as his group dominated the Sooners. Venables is here again, but basically everything about these two teams has changed.

Define “clean”. Will Muschamp, newly installed as head coach at South Carolina, was apparently told by Florida’s university when he took the Gators job to “clean it up,” with “it” being the disciplinary and behavioral issues at the end of Urban Meyer’s time at Florida. He actually did that, but still got fired for, you know, not winning football games.

Let’s find coordinators. Penn State is in the market for a new offensive coordinator after being, well, really bad at offense again. From the sounds of it, the next offensive coordinator in Happy Valley will be from outside the program. And at Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician, they peruse a critical list of would-be defensive coordinators on Dino Babers’ staff at Syracuse.