Bowl Blitz Invitational Special: LSU’s Road to the BCS National Championship
One of the more rewarding things about starting up STAT BOX STORIES and the BOWL BLITZ INVITATIONAL has been the incredible response from guest contributors who had no true motivation–outside of playing the games and donating time to the cause–to participate. Eric Veneziano has taken this dedication to a whole new level, not only contributing the most guest entries of any outside contributor, but also setting up an Online Dynasty running through the 2011-2012 college football season to see if he could find a way to set up the Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers in the BCS National Championship game; even though the SEC rivals would find it extra difficult to end up in the title game. Believe it or not, they did. Here’s the first part of how that ended up being so, chronicling the season of LSU:
LSU started off the season at #4 and high hopes of a National Championship. With maybe one of the toughest schedules in college football history, if the Tigers could take care of business they should be able to land in the title game.
Bowl Blitz Invitational Special: Alabama’s Road to the BCS National Championship
One of the more rewarding things about starting up STAT BOX STORIES and the BOWL BLITZ INVITATIONAL has been the incredible response from guest contributors who had no true motivation–outside of playing the games and donating time to the cause–to participate. Eric Veneziano has taken this dedication to a whole new level, not only contributing the most guest entries of any outside contributor, but also setting up an Online Dynasty running through the 2011-2012 college football season to see if he could find a way to set up the Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers in the BCS National Championship game; even though the SEC rivals would find it extra difficult to end up in the title game. Believe it or not, they did. Here’s the first part of how that ended up being so, chronicling the season of Alabama:
Coming into the season Alabama was a little bit of a mystery. They carried a high preseason ranking but had to replace a number of key positions on the offense and 3 leaders at quarterback, halfback and wide receiver. Can the defense that returned a number of starters carry them early on until the offense found it’s rhythm, and can the new starting half back continue where he showed glimpses of being great last season?

Bowl Blitz Invitational #22: 2012 GoDaddy.com Bowl — Arkansas State @ NIU in NCAA Football 12
Today’s penultimate entry in the BOWL BLITZ INVITATIONAL comes from EA SPORTS Game Changer and administrator at The Gaming Tailgate: Tommy Gschwend, better known online by the alias gschwendt on Twitter and other forums. As with his entry for the 2011 Hyundai Sun Bowl, Tommy’s take on the BOWL BLITZ INVITATIONAL here at STAT BOX STORIES is a bit different from what we’ve seen from guest contributors; we still have the statistics and some screenshot highlights, but Tommy also recorded full game highlights of this showdown between Arkansas State and Northern Illinois University. Enjoy!
The GoDaddy.com Bowl features a matchup of the Arkansas State Red Wolves versus the Northern Illinois Huskies. The two teams can boast for their winning streaks on the season with the second and third (respectively) longest in the country behind LSU.
The two teams have previously faced each other when each was a member of the Big West conference. In the 7 games the two teams played from 1990 to 1996, NIU holds the advantage at 6 wins but that was hard times for both teams and things are different now considering both teams won their respective conference and each have won ten games on the season.
Both teams get things started at the Quarterback with the Red Wolves featuring a strong passing attack that also finds the QB running from time to time whereas the Huskies rely more on their QB to run the ball.







