For those not in the know, like myself, apparently Beef 'O' Brady's is a "Family-friendly Irish Pub" (no hard liquor served) which is an oxymoron on par with "Stripper's Dressing Room" and about as ironic as a Scotsman being the first person to clone a sheep.
Southern Miss: This school is the NCIS of the NCAA. That is a franchise with long running success that no one seems to talk or care about. They have now had 17 straight winning seasons dating nearly back to the days when a mullett-headed Brett Favre roamed the campus and appeared in bowls in 13 of the last 14 years. Still in a high school where I've seen kids sport apparel of every program from the Cal-Irvine Banana Slugs to the Heidelberg Student Princes a hat or sweatshirt of the Golden Eagles is about as rare as a pay phone.
The Mark Harmon of Hattiesburg is ex-coach Jeff Bower who lingered at USM as long as Hawkeye Pierce in Korea. The rarest of birds these days, a coach with commitment, Bower spent 29 years here as an assistant and head coach, before retiring, spurning many more lucrative and high profile offers along the way. It was this dedication that left the program on solid footing when current coach Larry Fedora took over 3 years ago.
In part because of that USM has been to the post-season in each of Larry The Hat's two years splitting a pair of appearances in the lowly New Orleans Bowl. This year they step up a bit in the bowl pecking order while sporting a resume common to many CUSA teams of late- tons of offense, ounces of D. This year's squad put up 37.6 ppg behind junior QB Austin Davis, but allowed close to 30 including being garretted for 50 by 4-8 UAB and 56 by Tulsa in their finale. Add to this the fact that 3 defensive starters will be missing after being shot at a nightclub that featured more gunplay than a mandatory double shift at the Post Office and it could take 60 on the scoreboard to secure a win in the Sunshine State.
Louisville: Former Florida and South Carolina defensive coordinator Charlie Strong has done a magnificent job this year turning around a recently Top 10 program (2006) that was on a slide that would've made Dana Plato shudder. After Bobby Petrino departed for the NFL the Cardinals made what appeared to be a masterful move in luring hot commodity Steve Kragthorpe away from Tulsa prior to the 2007 season. All seemed well on September 15 of that year as Louisville took on state rival Kentucky. Off a 12-1 season Kragthorpe's crew was already 2-0, averaging 66 ppg and ranked #8 in the nation. Then with 28 seconds left and trailing by 1 UK's Andre Woodson hit current Buffalo Bill Steve Johnson with a 58 yard strike (that God apparently didn't cause him to drop) and the bottom fell out of the Cardinals program faster than Billy Squier's career after the homo-erotic, pink satin sheet "Rock Me Tonite" video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI). Next week Louisville lost to a Greg Robinson coached Syracuse team that would finish 2-10 and it would get worse from there.
Kragthorpe's record post-9/15 was 15-21 with a 4-8 finish that finished him in 2009. Strong, long a coaching bridesmaid, finally stepped up to the altar and the turnaround, if not remarkable, has at least been complete. Formerly a run-and-gun squad Strong has turned the club into a ground oriented, defensive group sporting a 1300 yard rusher in Bilal Powell and a stop unit that finished 12th in ypg allowed while shutting out BE Champ Connecticut 26-0. They'll try to accomplish more of the same in St. Petersburg and cap off this comeback season with their first bowl win in 4 years.
Lead with your lips, ladies. 
This young lady is actually Cheerleader Captain at Southern Miss. Not that that makes it any more proper, but...
