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Football Tue Dec 28 2010
Big Ten Goes Bowling: Iowa vs. Missouri
College football's swollen bowl season features eight Big Ten teams, but hopefully you have better things to do this final week of the year than stare vacantly at the TV for 25 or 30 anticlimactic hours. Let us help you decide which of those games might be worth your time.
The smorgasbord begins tonight with the house-afire Iowa Hawkeyes.
Insight Bowl
Iowa (7-5) vs. Missouri (10-2)
Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Ariz.
9 p.m., ESPN
Watchability factor: Moderate
This game would have been awesome a few months ago, when Iowa looked like a Big Ten title contender and had actual Grade A skill players. Now the Hawkeyes are slap-fighting bad headlines and papering over massive offensive holes in the absences of starting tailback Adam Robinson, who was suspended for vague non-reasons (and has since been arrested for marijuana possession), and all-time leading receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, who was allegedly living in a Tony Montana fantasy. Missouri, enjoying its third 10-win season in four years, is a clear favorite with quarterback Blaine Gabbert at the helm.
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