Bowls!

Get started today. Some MAC, WAC, MWC, & Sun Belt teams get it started.

 

I wish playoffs were starting.

 

I think we all do. Well, maybe 99% of us anyway.

 

Gildan New Mexico
Temple vs. Wyoming Albuquerque, N.M.
University Stadium
Tickets Dec. 17

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Ohio vs. Utah State Boise, Idaho
Bronco Stadium
Tickets Dec. 17

R+L Carriers New Orleans
San Diego State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette New Orleans
Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Tickets Dec. 17

Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg
Florida International vs. Marshall St. Petersburg, Fla.
Tropicana Field
Tickets Dec. 20

S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia
TCU vs. Louisiana Tech San Diego
Snapdragon Stadium


MAACO Las Vegas
Arizona State vs. Boise State Las Vegas
Sam Boyd Stadium
Tickets Dec. 22

Sheraton Hawaii
Nevada vs. Southern Miss Honolulu
Aloha Stadium
Tickets Dec. 24

AdvoCare V100 Independence
Missouri vs. North Carolina Shreveport, La.
Independence Stadium
Tickets Dec. 26

Little Caesars
Western Michigan vs. Purdue Detroit
Ford Field
Tickets Dec. 27

Belk
Louisville vs. NC State Charlotte, N.C.
Bank of America Stadium
Tickets Dec. 27

Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman
Toledo vs. Air Force Washington, D.C.
RFK Stadium
Tickets Dec. 28

Bridgepoint Education Holiday
California vs. Texas San Diego
Snapdragon Stadium
Tickets Dec. 28

Champs Sports
Florida State vs. Notre Dame Orlando, Fla.
Florida Citrus Bowl
Tickets Dec. 29

Valero Alamo
Washington vs. Baylor San Antonio
Alamodome
Tickets Dec. 29

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
BYU vs. Tulsa Dallas
Gerald J. Ford Stadium
Tickets Dec. 30

New Era Pinstripe
Rutgers vs. Iowa State Bronx, N.Y.
Yankee Stadium
Tickets Dec. 30

Franklin American Mortgage Music City
Mississippi State vs. Wake Forest Nashville, Tenn.
LP Field
Tickets Dec. 30


Insight
Iowa vs. Oklahoma Tempe, Ariz.
Sun Devil Stadium
Tickets Dec. 30

Meineke Car Care of Texas
Texas A&M vs. Northwestern Houston
Reliant Stadium
Tickets Dec. 31

Hyundai Sun
Georgia Tech vs. Utah El Paso, Texas
Sun Bowl

Tickets Dec. 31


AutoZone Liberty
Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt Memphis, Tenn.
Liberty Bowl

Tickets Dec. 31

Kraft Fight Hunger
Illinois vs. UCLA San Francisco
AT&T Park
Tickets Dec. 31

Chick-fil-A
Virginia vs. Auburn Atlanta
Georgia Dome

Tickets Dec. 31

TicketCity
Houston vs. Penn State Dallas
Cotton Bowl

Tickets Jan. 2

Outback
Michigan State vs. Georgia Tampa, Fla.
Raymond James Stadium

Tickets Jan. 2


Capital One
Nebraska vs. South Carolina Orlando, Fla.

Florida Citrus Bowl
Tickets Jan. 2

Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl
Ohio State vs. Florida Jacksonville, Fla.

EverBank Field
Tickets Jan. 2

Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio
Wisconsin vs. Oregon Pasadena, Calif.

Rose Bowl
Tickets Jan. 2

Tostitos Fiesta
Stanford vs. Oklahoma State Glendale, Ariz.

U. of Phoenix Stadium
Tickets Jan. 2


Allstate Sugar
Michigan vs. Virginia Tech New Orleans
Louisiana Superdome
Tickets Jan. 3

Discover Orange
West Virginia vs. Clemson Miami
Sun Life Stadium
Tickets Jan. 4

AT&T Cotton
Kansas State vs. Arkansas Arlington, Texas
Cowboys Stadium
Tickets Jan. 6


BBVA Compass Bowl
SMU vs. Pittsburgh Birmingham, Ala.
Legion Field


GoDaddy.com
Arkansas State vs. Northern Illinois Mobile, Ala.
Ladd-Peebles Stadium
Tickets Jan. 8


Allstate BCS National Championship Game
No. 1 LSU vs. No. 2 Alabama New Orleans
Louisiana Superdome
Tickets Jan. 9

 

The last couple of weeks always remind me of how much I love college football, so I'm happy to watch even the "meaningless" bowls.

 

Yea, I did call about 34 of them "meaningless". We've already argued the validity of the current bowl system. I want a playoff after the season that has more than 2 teams in it, and you like the way things are. You like tradition, I like a little change. I like tradition too, but things have changed. In 1976, there were 12 bowl games with names that didn't have sponsors in the title. Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Peach, etc., etc. I liked it back then. Now, we have 35 bowl games, all with sponsor names like Famous Idaho Potato ?, Belk?, Beef O'Bradys ?, Little Caesar?, a credit union, and etc, etc. It's gotten ridiculous. We have teams with losing records, even records, bowls where both coaches have been fired,etc, getting bowl invitations. We have 8 or more teams from 1 conference going to a bowl. That's too many. Time, and money, have dumbed down and numbed the current state of after-season bowl games. Only 1 game right now has any true meaning in a championship sense of things, and that's the BCS game. Yea, I'll watch bits and pieces of alot of these games, cause they're on, and I'll pull for all the ACC teams, but when they're over, the results will be quickly forgotten.

 

Was that wall of text supposed to mean something? Just in the two weeks since the conference championship games, I really missed college football. No one gives a shit if you don't want to watch these games, but it was fun to see Ohio come back over Utah State to get their first bowl win, and then to see Louisiana Lafayette beat San Diego State on a last second field goal.

 

Just think thou. If we had a 8 team playoff, we could get real excited about 3 more weekends, and 7 more "championship" type games. (instead of the 1 BCS game we have to wait for at the end of this very long, crowded, bowl schedule)

 

Except for the fact that it would completely undermine the excitement and importance of the regular season. Look, you've been educated so you know that a playoff is a shitty idea. If you want it anyway, fine, but don't pretend like you don't know that it's a shitty idea.

 

I laffed.