By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

BROOKLYN -- You had to expect this. Any regularly updated gallery of hot girls is inevitably going to be turned into an all-star collection of super-hot girls.

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And that's precisely what we've got going on today. What better way to say goodbye to 2009 and ring in 2010 by resolving to look at the Hottest Of The Hot Girls Of College Football gallery.

Click here to view the 15 college football darlings, or you can click the picture of the lovely USC cheerleader above. And of course click here to take another look at the original Hot Girls gallery in its entirety.

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

BROOKLYN -- I don't know exactly how many Hot Girls I expect to add to the gallery after Saturday's Army-Navy tilt, so enjoy what looks to be the last good update to your favorite slideshow this season.

I spent the day at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, watching Cincinnati mount a frantic comeback to win the game, the Big East Conference and the league's automatic BCS bowl bid.

Before Pitt's cheerleaders had their lovely Colgate smiles turned upside down, I was able to get a few shots of the Panther darlings. Click here or on the picture above to begin the gallery.

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

BROOKLYN -- I still can't get over my luck this season. Fifteen years after graduating from the University of Cincinnati and first thinking about pulling off the OGS project, I finally took the leap this fall and as I was busy traveling from city to city, Cincinnati was busy putting together its best season in school history.

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And I was there to watch the Bearcats cap off their 12-0 season by beating Pittsburgh in the sport's most exciting game of the year Saturday at Heinz Field.

Cincinnati pulled out an exhilirating 45-44 win over the Panthers, securing its second straight Big East championship and automatic BCS bowl bid.

Watching from the sidelines, I was able to take a few pictures of the great game. Click here or on the picture above for a look at the Gameday Gallery.

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

CLEVELAND -- It was a cold night Friday in Morgantown, but that didn't keep the hot girls from showing up at the very exciting Pittsburgh-West Virginia game.

Decked out in their school colors, fans and cheerleaders alike dueled in the school-spirit category, oh, who am I kidding? I just try to write a couple of paragraphs for this update each week to match the length of the picture to the right.

If you want to look at the Hot Girls of College Football gallery, just click here.

And get a good look while you can. As the season is winding down, there aren't going to be many more Hot Girls gallery updates.

By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season

WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Friday night's game in Morgantown was the 13th on the OGS tour this season, and the first that was decided on the game's final play.

And there I was, indecisive and unprepared about how to shoot Tyler Bitancourt's game-winning field goal as time expired.

If you've been following my project this season, you know I don't come from a photography background, but along the way during my 15-year news career, I figured it might be smart to pick up some shooting skills, as well as a decent camera and lens.

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So while I still have some work to do to lens like a serious pro, I think I'm getting better at at least thinking like one. When it became clear the Mountaineers were calling their last two plays with field position in mind, and setting up the decisive field goal, I hurriedly looked around for an angle different from where everyone else would be shooting from. The only thing I had time to do was climb 10 steps up one of the portals into the stands and ask an usher if I could shoot from there, between the 10- and 15-yard lines.

As the teams traded timeouts, I fished around my camera bag for my widest lens -- 18mm -- but it's not a great lens and after I finally got the 200mm off and put the wider lens on, the teams were lining up so I hurriedly pointed the camera and fired away.

In my frantic effort to set up the shot, I'd put the camera on Program mode, assuming it would give me the largest aperture setting. And as you can see by this Photoshopped picture, that was not the case.

Anyway, I did at least like one thing about the picture: Pitt wideout Jonathan Baldwin, whose 50-yard touchdown reception tied the game just a few minutes earlier, shows a vertical leap worthy of a look from Jamie Dixon, efforting albeit unsuccessfully to block Bitancourt's kick.

That was just one picture, and it turned out to be a learning experience, as much of this tour has. Here's the rest of the Gameday Gallery.