And while the Poinsettia Bowl may not be as big as, say, the BCS national championship, Boise State is playing! That means it’s going to be exciting.

The BCS Bowl season continues at the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego when it hosts the 2008 Poinsettia Bowl between the No.9 Boise State Broncos and the No.11 TCU Horned Frogs.

The TCU Horned Frogs will make its 10th bowl appearance in the last 11 seasons. Despite that experience in BCS Bowl games, they will have their hands full against the undefeated Boise State Broncos who, despite their strong campaign this season at 12-0, were still snubbed from the BCS title game.

Only four other bowls feature two teams with a higher combined current ranking than the Poinsettia Bowl (20). It’s also the first time the TCU Horned Frogs will play in a BCS Bowl game that has two teams having a ranking this high.

The last time TCU had this kind of game was the 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl, when No.11 Clemson defeated No.7 TCU, 23-7. The Frogs are 4-4-1 when playing a bowl game with both teams ranked.

TCU and Boise State will face each other for just the second time in their history. The first meeting also featured a battle of top-20 teams as the 18th-ranked Broncos defeated the 19th-ranked Frogs, 34-31, in the inaugural Fort Worth Bowl in 2003.

TCU has won three straight bowl games for the first time since the opening three bowl games (1936-39) in its history. In its previous Poinsettia Bowl appearance, TCU defeated Northern Illinois 37-7 in 2006. The Frogs are 10-12-1 all-time in bowl games.

TCU is also 6-3 in bowl games with Patterson on its coaching staff and 4-3 with him as head coach. Prior to Patterson’s arrival on campus in 1998, the Frogs had just four bowl wins in their history.

The Poinsettia Bowl will be Patterson’s 100th game as head coach of the Frogs. The dean of Mountain West Conference coaches is 72-27 (.727) in eight seasons. Patterson’s 72 victories are two shy of tying Abe Martin (74, 1953-66) for second place on TCU’s career win list.

Can the TCU Horned Frogs beat the Boise State Broncos to win the Poinsettia Bowl again? SportsBetting.com has the odds.

TCU Horned Frogs -2.5

Boise State Broncos +2.5

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