Friday Bowls Open Thread

It was a Happy New Year indeed for college football on January 1.  The college football playoff brought us an Oregon beat down of defending national champion Florida State in the Rose Bowl and an Ohio State upset over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.  So after all that college football playoff stuff, we have a traditional Pac-12 vs. B1G Rose Bowl matchup in the national championship game.  Perhaps we should just call it the Rose Bowl II.

We have 10 more days to wait for that one, though.  In the meantime, there are more college football bowls to be played, including four games today, two of which feature Pac-12 teams.

League bowl records: Pac-12 5-1 B1G 5-4 SEC 5-5 C-USA 4-1 ACC 4-6 MW 3-4 Ind 2-1 SB 1-1 AAC 1-2 MAC 1-3 Big 12 1-4

— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) January 2, 2015

Enjoy today's bowls.  Talk about them here: this is your day's open thread.  If you want to catch up on the bowl games you have missed or check out the schedule of future bowls, just see below and click on the handy dandy scheduling tool that SB Nation has given to us.

Fri, Jan 2, 2015
12:00 PM ET ESPN	Houston	vs. (lockheed martin Armed Forces Bowl)	Pittsburgh
3:20 PM ET ESPN	Iowa	vs. (Taxslayer Bowl)	Tennessee
6:45 PM ET ESPN	(11) Kansas State	vs. (valero Alamo Bowl)	(14) UCLA
10:15 PM ET ESPN	Oklahoma State	vs. (ticket city Cactus Bowl)	Washington
Sat, Jan 3, 2015
12:00 PM ET ESPN	East Carolina	vs. (Birmingham Bowl)	Florida
Sun, Jan 4, 2015
9:00 PM ET ESPN	Toledo	vs. (GoDaddy Bowl)	Arkansas State
Mon, Jan 12, 2015
8:30 PM ET ESPN	oregon	OREGON vs. ohio state (National championship game)	OHIO STATE