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NEW ORLEANS - New coach. New helmets. New Tony Pike...but not necessarily for the better.

In a game full of storylines, the Florida Gators and Cincinnati Bearcats will collide in the much-anticipated Sugar Bowl on New Year's night.

Time: 8:30 p.m. ET Place: New Orleans The line: Florida by 13 Three reasons Cincinnati will win Nobody respects us: With Urban Meyer's health issues and resignation/leave of absence turning the Sugar Bowl into "As the Gator Turns", the Bearcats have shown up in New Orleans in almost anonymous fashion.

With the Allstate Sugar Bowl featuring the Florida Gators and Cincinnati Bearcats only a day away, I contacted Joshua Burns, the Cincy Examiner , to get his take on the game.

The NCAA postseason kicked off Dec. 19, with 34 games being played in a three-week span.

It wasn't the bowl Pittsburgh wanted to be in, but the Panthers made a case that they've returned to prominence.

I meant to get to this last week but never did because there was so much news going on.

Peter Schrager is a frequent contributor for FOXSports.com. You can e-mail him at PeterSchrager@gmail.com . While the rest of the college football world was focused in on Times Square's Nokia Theater on Saturday night for the 75th presentation of the Heisman Trophy, I was preparing for an even more prestigious college football awards show held in ...

No. 5 Cincinnati trailed Pittsburgh by 21 points late in the first half, a perfect season and BCS bowl berth in peril.

Ashtabula native Romel Dismuke and his Cincinnati teammates looking forward to facing Meyer's Florida Gators, even after Kelly flees to take Notre Dame job BOB ETTINGER When the University of Florida battles the University of Cincinnati in the 76th Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Day, Gators coach Urban Meyer won't be the only ...

Athletic Director Lew Perkins says he has not offered the Kansas coaching job to anyone amid reports that the school is negotiating with Stanford's Jim Harbaugh.

The unbeaten Cincinnati Bearcats are heading into the biggest bowl game in school history with anger, uncertainty and an interim head coach who may not be around much longer.

Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy called the dearth of minority head coaches in major college football "disgraceful." Dungy became the first Black coach to win a Super Bowl in 2007 with the Indianapolis Colts.

This College Football season was a year like no other for the Big East. The Big East Championship game was the best game of all games this weekend.A The Championship between Pitt and Cincinnati yesterdayA was an instant classic for all college football fans.

"It's the craziest game I've ever seen," said Steve Schwietert, of Mason, Ohio, as he and other Bearcat fans watched with apprehension from Dave and Busters earlier Saturday.

Pitt blew a 31-10 lead with a minute left in the first half and let visiting Cincinnati's explosive offense chip away.

The University of Cincinnati football team, on the heels of its second-consecutive BIG EAST Conference Championship, will play defending National Champion Florida in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Jan.

Florida will face Cincinnati in the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl. Gators coach Urban Meyer is a former Bearcats defensive back and graduated with a degree in psychology in 1986.

Pittsburgh's Dion Lewis runs in for a touchdown in the fourth quarter against Cincinnati.

While last year's Orange Bowl appearance represented the high-water mark for the Cincinnati program, the game marked the low point in quarterback Tony Pike 's career.