19 2009 or 28 days ago from this coming Saturday

Texas Tech did wind up playing in the Cotton Bowl last season, as did Ole Miss, but we all know that the Cotton Bowl was not considered a BCS game last season.No. 4 Virginia Tech: Currently with one loss to 2 ranked Alabama, Virginia Tech lost 16-14 at Miami (FL) on Nov 13, 2008, or 338 days ago from this coming Saturday.No. 5 Boise State: Currently undefeated and mentioned as a possible "BCS Buster" this season, Boise State technically last lost to a non-BCS opponent during the last bowl season in the Poinsettia Bowl to No 11 TCU 17-16 on Dec. 23, 2008. Considering both Boise State and TCU were undefeated but relegated to The Poinsettia Bowl, I am willing to dig deeper. Boise State's last non-BCS loss occurred in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl to East Carolina 41-38 on Dec 23, 2007, or 664 days from this coming Saturday.No. 19, 2009, or 28 days ago from this coming Saturday.To be fair to both USC and Washington, it is entirely possible that Washington could still win the Pac-10 Looking further, USC at Oregon State 27-21 on Sept.

25, 2008, or 387 days ago from this coming Saturday.Critics like to point out Ohio State's shortcomings in recent bowl games, or even this season against USC. One thing to keep in mindOhio State under Jim Tressel will never overlook any opponent. The evidence is clear from the fact that Ohio State has not lost to a team considered to be a weaker opponent in nearly five years. Win the games you are supposed to win. That is a lesson these other top programs unfortunately have had to learn in the all-too-recent past, unlike Ohio State.. LONDON (Reuters) - Three people were killed in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday, police said.

WorldThe three had become trapped while out with six others on Buachaille Etive Mor on Glencoe, near Fort Willliam.Two were rescued by helicopter and transferred to an ambulance before being taken to hospital, but blizzards prevented a second Sea King reaching the others.Mountain rescue teams then took over the search for the remaining members who were in at least two separate groups.Five were found without injuries. One had a shoulder injury.The area is popular with skiers as well as climbers.(Reporting by Avril Ormsby; Editing by Elizabeth Piper) World. WorldThe Vatican said the pope issued a decree lifting the excommunication of four traditionalist bishops who were thrown out of the Roman Catholic Church in 1988 for being ordained without Vatican permission.The four bishops lead the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), which has about 600,000 members and rejected modernizations of Roman Catholic worship and doctrine.The Vatican said the excommunications were lifted after the bishops affirmed their willingness to accept Church teachings and papal authority.In healing a 20-year-old schism that had wounded the Catholic Church, the decree looks set to spark one of the most serious crises in Catholic-Jewish relations in 50 years."We have no intention of interfering in the internal workings of the Catholic Church, however, the eagerness to bring a Holocaust denier back into the Church will cast a shadow on relations between Jews and the Catholic Church," Israel's ambassador to the Vatican Mordechai Lewy, told Reuters.One of the four bishops, the British-born Richard Williamson, has made a number of statements denying the full extent of the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews, as accepted by mainstream historians.In comments to Swedish television broadcast on Wednesday, he said "I believe there were no gas chambers" and only up to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, instead of 6 million.Williamson said: "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler."Israel-based Rabbi David Rosen, head of inter-religious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, told Reuters:."The late Pope John Paul II called anti-Semitism a sin against God and man. For this Vatican political expediency trumps ethical and human considerations," he said.Catholic-Jewish relations were already severely strained over the figure of wartime Pope Pius XII, who Jews have accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust. Jews have asked the Vatican, which denies the charges, to freeze the procedure that can lead to his sainthood pending more study of wartime records.Pope Benedict has already made several gestures of reconciliation to the schismatic group, including allowing the unconditional return of the old-style Latin Mass.That move also angered Jews because the ceremony includes a Good Friday prayer for their conversion.(Editing by Jon Boyle) World.