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Rockville Patch Bowl Pick Bash: Coach's Picks

Richard Montgomery football coach Neal Owens picks the 2011-2012 college football bowl games.

Editor's Note: School in bold denotes winner.

Bowl

Date Matchup Coach's Pick Gildan New Mexico Bowl Dec. 17 Temple vs. Wyoming Temple Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Dec. 17 Ohio vs. Utah State Ohio R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl Dec. 17 San Diego St. vs. Louisiana-Lafayette Louisiana-Lafayette Beef O'Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl Dec. 20 Florida International vs. Marshall Marshall S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl Dec. 21 TCU vs. Louisiana Tech TCU MAACO Las Vegas Bowl Dec. 22 Arizona St. vs. Boise St. Boise St. Sheraton Hawaii Bowl Dec. 24 Nevada vs. Southern Miss. Nevada Advocare V100 Independence Bowl

Dec. 26

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Missouri vs. North Carolina UNC Little Caesars Bowl Dec. 27 Western Michigan vs. Purdue Purdue Belk Bowl Dec. 27 Louisville vs. NC State NC State Military Bowl Dec. 28 Toledo vs. Air Force Air Force Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl Dec. 28 California vs. Texas Texas Champs Sports Bowl Dec. 29 Florida State vs. Notre Dame Notre Dame Valero Alamo Bowl Dec. 29 Washington vs. Baylor Baylor Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl Dec. 30 BYU vs. Tulsa BYU New Era Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 30 Rutgers vs. Iowa State Rutgers Franklin America Mortgage Music City Bowl Dec. 30 Mississippi State vs. Wake Forest Wake Forest Insight Bowl Dec. 30 Iowa vs. Oklahoma Oklahoma Meineke Car Care of Texas Bowl Dec. 31 Texas A&M vs. Northwestern Northwestern Hyundai Sun Bowl Dec. 31 Georgia Tech vs. Utah Georgia Tech AutoZone Liberty Bowl Dec. 31 Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Dec. 31 Illinois vs. UCLA UCLA Chik-Fil-A Bowl Dec. 31 Virginia vs. Auburn Virginia TicketCity Bowl Jan. 2 Houston vs. Penn State Penn State Outback Bowl Jan. 2 Michigan State vs. Georgia Georgia Capital One Bowl Jan. 2 Nebraska vs. South Carolina South Carolina Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl Jan. 2 Ohio State vs. Florida Florida Rose Bowl Jan. 2 Wisconsin vs. Oregon Oregon Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Jan. 2 Stanford vs. Oklahoma State Stanford Allstate Sugar Bowl Jan. 3 Michigan vs. Virginia Tech Michigan Discover Orange Bowl Jan. 4 West Virginia vs. Clemson Clemson AT&T Cotton Bowl Jan. 6 Kansas State vs. Arkansas Arkansas BBVA Compass Bowl Jan. 7 SMU vs. Pittsburgh SMU GoDaddy.com Bowl Jan. 8 Arkansas St. vs. Northern Illinois Northern Illinois BCS National Title Game Jan. 9 LSU vs. Alabama Alabama

Coach's Thoughts:

Poinsettia Bowl: "TCU is one of the best coached teams in the county."

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Military Bowl: "I will always pick the service academies. Those guys are true warriors."

Champs Sports Bowl: "Notre Dame shares a fight song with RM, plus, I think Coach Kelley is on the right track there."

Music City Bowl: "This one is for my defensive ends coach Bryan Ray!"

Liberty Bowl: "Coach Franklin should have been here at Maryland."

TicketCity Bowl: "It would be nice to see Penn State's kids leave with some happy memories with this past season."

Fiesta Bowl: "Watching Andrew Luck play QB is like watching a conductor with his orchestra."

BCS Championship Game: "I really like LSU, but I just think Nick Saban is the best coach in the country."

Editor's Note: While the picks were made before the games were played, some were played before publication of this feature.

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