Congrats to 10 of the 12 Big ten teams who made bowl games this year, a new record for conference teams in the postseason. There are some interesting matchups and for once I think there are enough favorable matchups that the Big Ten might win some games.

• Rose Bowl - Wisconsin vs. Oregon - I'm really looking forward to this one.
• Sugar Bowl - Michigan vs. Virginia Tech - I think this will be a BCS win for the conference
• Capital One Bowl - Nebraska vs. South Carolina - Interesting B1G vs. SEC
  
• Outback Bowl - Michigan State vs. Georgia - battle of conference championship game losers.
• Insight Bowl - Iowa vs. Oklahoma - OU didn't live up to expectations but this is not a good matchup for Iowa.
• Gator Bowl - Ohio State vs. Florida - now THIS is a fascinating matchup with the Urban Meyer angle
  
• Meinke Car Care Bowl - Northwestern vs. Texas A&M - a Big 12 opponent for now, but they must have SEC speed.
• TicketCity Bowl - Penn State vs. Houston - Houston went from possible BCS bowl to playing the most cancerous team in all of the NCAA
• Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl - Purdue vs. Western Michigan - not a thrilling matchup but congrats to Purdue.
• Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl - Illinois vs. UCLA - I don't care who Illinois was playing, I'd pick them to lose.

On to the Nugz on this fine cold Monday morning.

• Gopher Hockey with a two win weekend again...finally.
• Tom Powers thinks that this Gopher basketball team is downright loveable.
• Gopher hoops killed USC on a Saturday game that went almost completely unnoticed.
  
• Interesting that it was the Gopher defense that fueled win.
• LA Times recaps the Gopher win.
• The Rochester Post-Bulletin looked for the positives from the Gopher Football season.
• Finally, Congrats to Nick Bjugstad for being named the national player of the month.
• Finally, Gopher Volleyball won their first two rounds in the NCAA Tournament and have advanced to the regional, that they are hosting.