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College bowl schedule 2012: Five Saturday games highlight weekend slate

The 2012-13 college football bowl season heats up with a weekend full of games including five on Saturday.

By Steve Uhlmann
US PRESSWIRE

It's time for the college football bowl season to heat up, and this weekend features eight games, including five during the day Saturday.

Friday's slate begins at 1 p.m. CT with Ohio taking on Louisiana-Monroe in the Advocare v100 Independence Bowl. After Rutgers and Virginia Tech do battle in the Russel Athletic Bowl at 4:30 p.m. CT, football fans in the Lone Star State may want to tune in to the Meineke Bowl at 8 p.m. CT on ESPN to see the Texas Tech Red Raiders play the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

On Saturday, a plethora of games fill the schedule including the Texas Longhorns playing the Oregon State Beavers at 5:45 p.m. CT in the 2012 Alamo Bowl on ESPN. FInally, TCU will close what will be a wild Saturday slate by taking on the Michigan State Spartans in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl in Phoenix with a kickoff at 9:15 p.m CT on ESPN.

A full schedule with all of the bowl games can be found here.

Photographs by jamesbrandon, jdtornow, phlezk, flygraphix, mcdlttx, tomasland, and literalbarrage used in background montage under Creative Commons. Thank you.