I think the biggest surprise of this bowl season is how terrible the American conference does (Houston loses to FSU, conference goes 1-7) after being serenaded throughout the regular season by the poll voters. Underscores the flaw of voting based purely on W-L records without heavily considering strength of schedule and conference.
Second biggest surprise, if it qualifies as such, will be 9-3 Oregon beating 10-2 TCU.
Third biggest surprise will be Cam Sutton announcing he will stay for his senior year. A man can dream. :good!: