The Holiday Bowl Pick

With a great field and great weather in San Diego, the Holiday Bowl has been provided annual high-offense thrillers. This year should be no different with a match-up between an Oklahoma team that was playing much better football at the end of the year than at the beginning and an Oregon team that turned out to be more well-rounded and versatile than most people originally thought.

The obvious key to the game will be the play of Oregon's two back-up QBs - Leaf and Dixon. If Kellen Clemons wasn't injured Oregon would likely being playing in a BCS game and, if not, would have been a double digit favorite against the Sooners. As it stands, the Ducks are favored by 3.

I expect the Ducks will score a late touchdown to take the lead and their defense will keep the Sooners out of the end zone in the final minute. The score will be 35-31 with Oregon winning and covering the spread.