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Miami (Ohio) is back in Tucson trying to do something that’s hard to pull off in bowl season: repeat the same bowl win, in the same building, with a different version of the team. The RedHawks are 7-6 and in their sixth straight postseason, but they’ve had real turbulence. They started 0-3, then lost veteran QB Dequan Finn mid-November when he left to prep for the NFL Draft. Now they’re riding freshman Thomas Gotkowski, who has been clean in limited action and has helped them stabilize again. Fresno State is 8-4 and built more like the “bowl team” you trust by default. The Bulldogs have a defense that held opponents to 293.5 yards per game, their best mark in decades,

No. 25 North Texas walks into Albuquerque with a season the program has never really had before. The Mean Green are 11-2, put up video game offensive numbers, and still feel like they left something on the table after losing 34-21 to Tulane in the AAC title game. Now they get the New Mexico Bowl, and they also get the weird part: North Texas has dropped seven straight bowls since its last win after the 2013 season. San Diego State is a very different kind of problem. The Aztecs are 9-3 and built around a defense that strangles games. They were one tiebreaker away from the Mountain West title game, and they’re the type of opponent that can make an

Denver closes the NBA’s Christmas slate at home, but the spotlight is dimmed by another injury blow. Cameron Johnson went down Tuesday night in Dallas and will miss time with a right knee bone bruise. That leaves the Nuggets without three opening-night starters as they prepare to face a Minnesota team surging at the right time. Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray remain available and continue to carry massive workloads. Jokic leads the league in rebounds and assists while ranking top ten in scoring, and Murray is posting career-best numbers. Denver has won both meetings with Minnesota this season, but the absences have changed the dynamic significantly. Minnesota arrives confident. The Timberwolves have won 10 of their last 12 and five

No. 19 Virginia gets a rare shot at program history on Saturday night in Jacksonville. The Cavaliers are 10-3 and one win away from the first 11-win season in school history, but the mood is still complicated after losing the ACC title game to Duke and missing the CFP. This is still a meaningful finish, though. Virginia has not been in a bowl since 2019, and they have not beaten an SEC opponent in a bowl since the 2018 shutout of South Carolina. Missouri is 8-4 and in its fifth straight bowl under Eli Drinkwitz, but the roster looks thinner than what the Tigers showed in November. They’re down to a true freshman quarterback with Beau Pribula heading to the