On the first day of 1993, No. 9 Washington (9-2) will be seeking to become the first school ever to win three consecutive Rose Bowls. No. 7 Michigan (8-0-3) will be seeking to regain some lost pride from last season.
The Huskies are trying to prove something, too. They lost two of their last three games after being ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press poll five weeks this season.Orange Bowl
Florida State's Bobby Bowden tries to set an NCAA record for consecutive bowl victories.
Third-ranked Florida State (10-1) will be seeking its eighth straight bowl victory, one more than UCLA won from 1983-89.
No. 11 Nebraska (9-2) is making its 24th consecutive bowl appearance, but the Cornhuskers have lost their last five. The postseason skid began with a 31-28 loss to Florida State in the 1988 Fiesta Bowl.
Cotton Bowl
Both Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum and Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz have made it perfectly clear that neither team will win the Cotton Bowl Classic because neither can score against the other's awesome defense.
A scoreless tie, you say?
Don't bet the farm on it.
Still simmering over an October upset by Stanford, Holtz has vowed repeatedly that the 9-1-1 Irish will play "awfully, awfully well" against the undefeted Aggies.
Liberty Bowl
Air Force is beginning to feel pretty comfortable visiting the Liberty Bowl. After all, it's the fourth straight year the Falcons have played in the postseason game in Memphis.
But the first Liberty Bowl appearance by Air Force was a 42-29 loss to Ole Miss in 1989, the opponent again this year.
Citrus Bowl
Garrison Hearst and the No. 8-ranked Georgia Bulldogs face No. 15 Ohio State.
Hearst is one of the key reasons Georgia (9-2) is a 4-point favorite over the Buckeyes (8-2-1) in the first meeting between the two teams.
Fiesta Bowl
Field conditions could be the primary factor determining which of two divergent offenses comes out on top New Year's Day in the Fiesta Bowl.
No. 10 Colorado and No. 6 Syracuse will trod mostly on sand when they line up at Sun Devil Stadium on Friday.
Hall of Fame Bowl
Think of Big East quarterbacks, and Gino Torretta and Marvin Graves come to mind. In the Southeastern Conference, there's Shane Matthews and Eric Zeier.
Glenn Foley and Heath Shuler didn't compile the flashy statistics of those players, but as leaders of ground-oriented offenses they still managed to make their marks in leading Boston College and Tennessee to Friday's Hall of Fame Bowl.
Blockbuster Bowl
Stanford's trip to the Blockbuster Bowl is no fun-in-the-sun reward for a good season.
The 13th-ranked Cardinal is treating its New Year's Day matchup with Penn State as strictly business. A 10-win season is on the line - something no Stanford team has accomplished since 1940.