To all you bowl bashers, playoff proponents and perpetually outraged college-football fans: We hope you didn't sit around Friday tending to your headache and ignoring the bowl games. If so, you missed an incredible afternoon. Of course, you might argue that the drama would have increased tenfold had these been tournament games, not one-off matchups. Someday, we might just learn whether that is true—and if, in the process, it renders college football's regular season as dull as college basketball's. In the meantime, let us enjoy our bowls. View Full Image Getty Images Kenjon Barner of the Oregon Ducks gets taken down by the Ohio State defense at the 96th Rose Bowl on Friday. After Bobby Bowden got his victorious farewell and the Big Ten Conference acquitted itself well in two early bowl games, Ohio State's 26-17 victory over Oregon in the Rose Bowl was a cathartic, game-changing outcome for the Buckeyes and their beleaguered conference, which had lost six straight BCS games.[Read more...]