Date: January 8th, 2011
Venue: Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama.
Time: Noon, TBD
Coverage: ESPN HD
Teams: Pittsburgh (7-5, 5-2 Big East) vs Kentucky (6-6, 2-6 SEC)
The BBVA Compass Bowl (formerly known as the Birmingham Bowl and the PapaJohns.com Bowl) is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game approved in April 2006 and played annually at the 71,594-seat Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.After being held in December for its first three years, the PapaJohns.com Bowl was played on January 2, 2010. It was one of five bowl games to take place that day, joining the Cotton Bowl Classic, International, Alamo, and Liberty bowls. Connecticut faced South Carolina in the 2010 edition of the bowl. Once again, the unique link with C-USA returned, as South Carolina was part of the Metro Conference from 1983-94 (1983-91 all sports, men’s soccer only afterwards) that became Conference USA, and is an associate member in the conference for men’s soccer.
Kentucky and Pittsburgh bring entertaining individual stars to Birmingham; do-everything Randall Cobb, tailback Derrick Locke and quarterback Mike Hartline for the Wildcats and future NFL wideout Jon Baldwin, tailback Dion Lewis and defensive end Jabaal Sheard for Pitt. But that talent didn’t translate to huge team success. Who reverses the trend?
Here we can indlude some statistics of both teams. Is important to check this stats because despite a team have good numbers it does not mean that another team from another division (with less efficient numbers) could not win against the “good team”. Here are the stats for both of the teams in order to analyze them.
Pittsburgh
Win-Lose: 7-5
Average Points: 26.3
Average Points Allowed: 19.8
Home Record: 4-2
Road Record: 3-3
Division Record: 5-2
Conference Record: 5-2
Kentucky
Win-Lose: 6-6
Average Points: 33.0
Average Points Allowed: 28.5
Home Record: 5-2
Road Record: 1-4
Division Record: 2-3
Conference Record: 2-6
Is also important to have a good idea of the performance of the key players of each team. Bellow there is a complete report of such performance which is useful to decide what team is in a better position to win the game.
Pittsburgh Leaders
Passing: Sunseri – 214-327, 2476 yds, 15 tds
Rushing: Lewis – 197 car, 956 yds, 12 tds
Receiving: Baldwin – 52 rec, 810 yds, 5 tds
Kentucky Leaders
Passing: Hartline – 268-405, 3178 yds, 23 tds
Rushing: Locke – 154 car, 816 yds, 10 tds
Receiving: Cobb – 79 rec, 955 yds, 7 tds
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