TODAY’S BOWL GAMES

Armed Forces Bowl

Middle Tennessee St. (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4) TIME/TV 10:45 a.m./ESPN LINE: Navy by 6½.

SERIES RECORD: First meeting.

KEY MATCHUP The differing offenses and quarterbacks. Navy gets most of its yardage on the ground, ranking second nationally with 322 yards rushing per game. Sophomore Keenan Reynolds has run for 1,260 yards and 29 touchdowns, the NCAA record for a quarterback. Middle Tennessee State has a balanced offense, gaining 208 yards a game on the ground and 207 yards through the air. Logan Kilgore has set an MTSU record with 53 career TD passes and is only the fourth quarterback in school history to pass for more than 7,000 yards.

PLAYERS TO WATCH Middle Tennessee State: Sophomore safety Kevin Byard has nine interceptions in his 24 career games, including four returned for touchdowns. Navy: Senior LBs Cody Peterson and D.J. Sargenti, the top two tacklers for the Midshipmen. Peterson has 135 tackles, and Sargenti 103.

NOTEWORTHY The Armed Forces Bowl is the first bowl game to host all three service academy teams. Air Force has played in Fort Worth four times, and Army has also played there and is set for the 2014 game if bowl eligible. … It is the 100th game for Middle Tennessee coach Rick Stockstill, 51-48 in his eight seasons. … Navy has five sets of brothers on its roster, tied with Wisconsin and Army for the most in FBS this season.

Music City Bowl Georgia Tech (7-5) vs. Mississippi (7-5), TIME/TV 2:15 p.m./ESPN WHERE At LP Field, Nashville, Tenn.

LINE: Mississippi by 3.

SERIES RECORD Georgia Tech 2-1.

KEY MATCHUP The Rebels’ defense against Georgia Tech’s offense. The Yellow Jackets feature the nation’s sixth-best rushing attack rolling up 311.7 yards per game, and they score 36.6 points per game. Ole Miss ranks 54th nationally giving up 155.2 yards rushing per game, but the Rebels do average 6.5 tackles for loss per game.

PLAYERS TO WATCH Mississippi: QB Bo Wallace. The senior turned the ball over four times in the Egg Bowl, including a fumble in overtime as the Rebels lost 17-10 to Mississippi State. But Wallace, a Tennessee native playing a short drive from his Giles County home, is third in the SEC averaging 279.9 yards offense per game and also has run for four touchdowns. Georgia Tech: DE Jeremiah Attaochu. The senior is coming off his best game with a career-high four sacks in the loss to Georgia, and he is tied with Greg Gathers for the school record with 31 career sacks. That’s the most among active players.

NOTEWORTHY Four of Ole Miss’ losses came to teams in the Top 25, including three ranked in the top eight. … The Rebels are in back-to-back bowls for the first time since the 2008-09. … The Rebels have won five straight bowls and nine of the last 10 with the lone loss at the 2000 Music City Bowl. … Ole Miss FS Cody Prewitt leads the SEC with six interceptions. … Freshman OT Laremy Tunsil has allowed one sack all season. … The Yellow Jackets are playing in their 17th straight bowl, the nation’s second-longest active bowl streak to Virginia Tech (21). … The Yellow Jackets snapped a seven-game skid in bowls with a 21-7 win over Southern California in the Sun Bowl last year. … Georgia Tech has lost six straight bowls to current SEC teams going back to 1960. … Georgia Tech is one of only three teams to rank in the top 10 nationally in rushing offense and defense with Ohio State and Wisconsin.Alamo Bowl No. 10 Oregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4) TIME/TV 5:45 p.m.;ESPN LINE: Oregon by 14 ½ SERIES RECORD: Sixth meeting, Texas leads 4-1.

KEY MATCHUP Oregon QB Marcus Mariota vs. the Texas defense. Mariota has put up nearly 4,000 yards of total offense and needs only two scores to break Joey Harrington’s school record for total touchdowns. That’s hardly far-fetched against the Longhorns, which fired its defensive coordinator early in the season and gave up 30 points in a season-ending loss to Baylor with the Big 12 title on the line.

PLAYERS TO WATCH Texas: QB Case McCoy. The senior never had the passing chops of his older brother but can capture an Alamo Bowl win just as Colt McCoy did in 2006. Oregon: CB Ifo Ekpre-Olumu: A possible first-round NFL draft pick, the junior might be playing his final game after being Oregon’s second-leading tackler this season.

NOTEWORTHY Injuries took a major toll on the Longhorns this season, and now they’ll be without more big names because of academic issues. WR Daje Johnson, OL Kennedy Estelle and RB Jalen Overstreet have been ruled ineligible. …Longtime Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti will retire after the game and end 38 years in coaching. …Texas won the Alamo Bowl last year but without McCoy, who was suspended for a violation of team rules …Oregon will be without starting TE Pharaoh Brown, who was suspended for the bowl game for taking part in a snowball fight on campus earlier this month that got out of hand. …All four of Texas’ victories against Oregon came prior to 1972. The last time these teams met was the 2000 Holiday Bowl that the Ducks won 35-30.

Holiday Bowl No. 14 Arizona St. (10-3) vs. Texas Tech (7-5) TIME/TV 9:15 p.m. ESPN WHERE Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego LINE Arizona State by 14 SERIES RECORD Arizona State 1-0.

KEY MATCHUP Arizona State defensive tackle Will Sutton, a two-time Associated Press All-American and two-time Pac-12 defensive player of the year against Texas Tech’s uptempo offense that will start either sophomore Michael Brewer or freshman 1 Davis Webb at quarterback. Although Sutton’s four sacks and 11 /2 tackles for loss are fewer than he had last year, he’s arguably the most disruptive interior lineman in the country.

PLAYERS TO WATCH Arizona State: QB Taylor Kelly, who has thrown for 3,510 yards and 28 touchdowns, and rushed for 473 yards and eight touchdowns. Texas Tech: Webb is expected to start after Baker Mayfield announced his intention to transfer and is no longer with the team. Or will it be Brewer? Coach Kliff Kingsbury says he’s notified the QBs but everyone else will have to wait until Monday night to find out. Webb started five straight games and has thrown for 2,315 yards - the same number Mayfield threw for - and 16 touchdowns.

NOTEWORTHY Texas Tech All-America tight end Jace Amaro comes in with 98 catches for 1,240 yards and needs 14 catches and 90 yards to break NCAA single-season records of 111 catches and 1,329 yards receiving for a tight end set by James Casey of Rice in 2008. … Red Raiders are second in the nation with 392 passing yards per game. … ASU RB Marion Grice probably will miss the game with a lower leg injury that kept him out of the loss to Stanford in the Pac-12 championship game. He accounts for a significant chunk of offense, leading ASU with 996 yards rushing and 14 touchdowns, and ranking third with 50 catches for 438 yards and six scores. - The Associated Press