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UAB is an -11 point favorite
The 6-6 Miami RedHawks finished 4th in the MAC EAST.
Best wins: Ball State, Northwestern Worst Loss: Western Michigan
The 6-6 University of Alabama Birmingham Blazers who finished 5th in Conference USA.
Best Win: Middle Tennessee State Worst Loss: Rice, FAU
Friday December 16 3:00 ESPN from lovely Orlando Florida in the stadium used for the MLS Orlando Pride. If you have never watched a game in one of these small soccer stadiums it's an interesting aesthetic for a few minutes. The Cure Bowl raises money for breast cancer research. Do you like cancer? Of course not, so tell your wife that you are watching the Duluth Trading Company Cure Bowl for her health. She'll thank you for it. Make sure you order yourself plenty of outdoor gear from
Duluth for when your wife makes you sleep outside for trying the earlier mentioned idea.
Troy is a one point favorite in this matchup of conference champions.
The University of Texas San Antonino Roadrunners (11-2) won Conference USA.
Best Wins: Everybody in C-USA Worst Losses: none lost to ranked Texas and Houston on the road.
The Troy Trojans (11-2) won the Sun Belt.
Best wins: Coastal Carolina, South Alabama Worst Losses: lost to trick or treat App St
The inaugural Fenway Bowl airs Saturday December 17th at 11:00 AM on ESPN. This game is literally the first one, almost every single play will be setting a new Fenway Bowl record. Sit back and watch history. Do you like drab weather and Japanese horseradish? I'm sorry, I being informed that this bowl is not sponsored by a plant used to spice up Japanese meals but is in fact a cloud storage company. So you can save this blog and refer back to in the freaking sky. If my understanding of internet saving is correct.
This game is a pick 'em.
The 9-3 Cincinnati Bear Cats finished 3rd in the American.
Best Wins: SMU Worst Loss: Central Florida
The Louisville Cardinals (7-5) finished 4th in the ACC Atlantic.
Best wins: NC State, Wake Forest Worst Losses: Boston College,
It's the Cricket Celebration Bowl! Saturday December 17th at noon on ABC. That's broadcast TV baby! Just because the cellular carrier is secondary doesn't mean your attention should be. Deon Sanders took the Colorado job but he is still sticking around for this game. The annual SWAC vs MEAC game that the teams forgo a national championship to play in. For real, they saw no thank you to the FCS playoffs for this EVERY YEAR. It would be like Georgia taking a pass on the playoff because they got in the Sugar Bowl. That's how big the Cricket Celebration Bowl is. Jackson State are 14 point favorites.
The Jackson State Tigers (12-0) won the SWAC
Best win: Everybody (all FCS schools) Worst Loss: none that's what the 0 in 12-0 means, ya dummy
The North Carolina Central Eagles won the MEAC with a 9-2 record.
Best Win: Howard Worst Loss: SC State
It's the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl! Live Saturday December 17th, at 2:30 on ESPN. It's our first matchup of power 5 schools. If you understandably get too excited for the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl and raise the roof a little too hard and destroy your home, it's cool because SRS Distribution will handle all of your roofing supply needs. Oregon State is a 10 point favorite.
The Oregon State Beavers (9-3) finished 5th in the Pac-12.
Best Wins: Oregon, Boise St Worst loss: Washington
The Florida Gators (6-6) finished 5th in the SEC East
Best win: South Carolina Worst Loss: Vanderbilt
It's the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl! 3:30 on ABC promoting Jimmy Kimmel Live also on ABC. That's is such coincidence. Lucky the game isn't on CBS. Are you tired of watching NFL in games a half filled stadium in Los Angeles? Might I suggest a college game in a quarter filled stadium? Jimmy Kimmel and his crew will be doing shenanigans during the game and if you like this write up, you like shenanigans. Fresno State are 4 point favorites.
The Washington State Cougars (9-4) finished 7th in the PAC-12. Best win: Wisconsin Worst loss: Oregon State
The Fresno State Bulldogs (9-4) won the Mountain West
Best win: Boise State Worst Loss: UConn
Saturday December 17th at 5:45 on ESPN, its the Lending Tree Bowl. It's had lots of names over the years, but it's always been played in scenic Mobile, Alabama the home South Alabama University. If you didn't like the rate you were getting from our friends at Hometown Lenders, than allow the good folks at Lendingtree to sort through the top mortgage companies for you to find the one best for your needs. It's our first bowl game that had to accept a team that did not qualify for a bowl with 6 wins (with only 1 being against an FCS school). Rice got this bowl bid because of all the teams in the country with 5-7 records, they graduated the most players over the last few years. Nice work Rice! Football is important but education is importanter. The most importantest thing is that Southern Miss is a 6 point favorite.
The Rice Owls (5-7) finished 7th in Conference USA. Best Win: UAB Worst Loss: Charlotte
The Southern Miss Golden Eagles (6-6) finished third in the Sun Belt West
Best win: Tulane Worst Loss: Louisanna Monroe
Saturday December 17, at 7:30 on ABC it's new Mexico Bowl! It's a trip to New Mexico. What kind of college kids get excited to head to Albuquerque on a business trip? Mormons. Albuquerque is the Las Vegas for Mormons. During this game keep the Mormon Code which every player on the team agrees to and I'm not making this up with PENALTY OF BEING KICKED OUT OF THE SCHOOL. I present to you the Mormon Code which I'm sure the players 100% follow:
he CES Honor Code governs not only academic behavior but also everyday conduct on or off campus as well as dress and grooming standards of students and faculty, with the aim of providing an atmosphere consistent with LDS principles.[21] The Honor Code requires:
- Abstinence from illicit drugs, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and tea (substances forbidden by the LDS Word of Wisdom)
- Honesty
- Encouraging others in their commitment to keep the Honor Code
- Living a chaste and virtuous life:
- Obedience to the law
- Maintaining an ecclesiastical endorsement from a leader of the local congregation or the nondenominational BYU chaplain[22]
- Respect for others
- Clean language (no profanity)
- Following the "Residential Living Standards" (visiting hours for members of the opposite sex)
- Dress and Grooming Standards: Abiding by the guidelines for dress, grooming, and housing. Skirts must reach to the knee and shirts may not be sleeveless. Form-fitting, strapless, and revealing clothing is not appropriate. Male students may not wear beards or goatees; hair length must be above the ears; and sideburns must not extend below the ear lobe.
- Students are prohibited from having guns on campus.[23]
Specific additional restrictions on appearance have been mentioned including those deemed as "extreme fashion" including a ban on shaved heads for women, blue hair, long nails or eyeshadow for men, and any piercings besides a single pair for women.[24]
You can't even bet the New Mexico Bowl which has SMU as -3.5 favorites.
The Brigham Young University Cougars (7-5) Independent but the third best record of the Independent teams.
Best Win: Boise St Worst Loss: East Carolina
The Southern Methodist University Mustangs (7-5)
fourth in the American.
Best Win: Houston Worst Loss: UCF
Our final game on Saturday December 17th is the Frisco Bowl presented by ServPro airing on ESPN starting at 9:15. This Bowl game is being played at the Dallas Cowboys practice facility in Frisco, Texas. That's right, my friends, this game is being played in an NFL facility. The NFL, the big time. The past few years this has been the Tropical Smoothie Café Frisco Bowl, but alas Tropical Smoothie Café did not sponsor this year. RIP Tropical Smoothie Café Frisco Bowl 2019-2021. Since the 2020 game was cancelled, the Kent State Golden Flashes are one of two teams to ever be Tropical Smoothie Café Frisco Bowl champions in the 153 history of college football. This year, Boise State are 10.5 point favorites.
The North Texas Mean Green (7-6) second in Conference USA
Best Win: Rice Worst Loss: UAB
The Boise State Broncos (9-4) completed the season as the Mountain West Mountain Division champions.
Best Win: Air Force Worst Loss: UTEP
Hope you enjoyed your Sunday. It was a dark time without a bowl game, but we back at it again with a mid afternoon Myrtle Beach Bowl starting at 2:30 ON ESPN. At least 73% of the crowd at Coastal Carolina's stadium will probably be people on vacation from Ohio to see Marshall as 10 point favorite. It's blue field! That is fun.
The Marshall Thundering Herd (8-4) 3rd in the Sun Belt East
Best Win: Notre Dame Worst Loss: Bowling Green
The University of Connecticut Huskies finished 6-6 to become eligible for the first time in 7 years.
Best win: Fresno State, Liberty Worst Loss: Ball State
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl kicks off at 3:30 on Tuesday December 20th on ESPN, so feel free to throw a potato in the oven at kickoff and enjoy a tasty dinner. Maybe not as tasty as San Jose St as a 3.5 favorite though. It's a blue field. Our second in a row. That's a streak!
Eastern Michigan Eagles (9-4) were tied for the MAC West division but lost the tie breaker.
Best Win: Kent State Worst Loss: Buffalo
The San Jose Spartans (7-4) Second in Mountain West Western Division
Best Win: Wyoming Worst Loss: Utah State
It's Tuesday, December 20th at 7:30 on ESPN, hold onto your butts, because it's the Roofclaim.com Boca Raton Bowl! Live from the campus of Florida Atlantic University, from the 344th biggest city in the country Boca Raton, we are assessing hail damage and replacing shingles while watching some football. RoofClaim.com also agreed to sponsor the naming rights of FAU's basketball arena but both sides agreed to end the ten year deal after 1 year because of political pressure. Apparently all arena naming rights must be approved by the state government and insurance companies don't like Roofclaim.com because they get people to replace their roofs after storm damage and it costs the insurance companies money. So insurane companies lobbied state politicians in Florida to throw out the naming rights for FAU's basketball arena and UCF's football field. In order to cleanse yourself from the seediness of politics and corporations please enjoy the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl. Toledo is a 5 point favorite.
The Liberty Flames (8-4) the best record for an independent team in the nation.
Best Win: Arkansas Worst Loss: New Mexico St
The Toledo Rockets (8-5) winners of the MAC West
Best Win: Kent State, Eastern Michigan Worst Loss: Western Michigan
The R & L Carriers New Orleans Bowl is looking to ship the excitement straight into your face Wednesday, December 21 at 9 pm on ESPN. If you are looking to use R & L carriers to ship your six pack, I have been quoted that it will run you $262.54 and will only take one day for the basic package. You know what's not basic? The R & L Carriers New Orleans Bowl where South Alabama is a -4.5 point favorite.
The South Alabama Jaguars (10-2) finished tied for first in the Sun Belt West but lost the tiebreaker.
Best win: Southern Miss Worst Loss: UCLA, Troy
The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (8-5) tied for second in Conference USA
Best win: Middle Tennessee State Worst Loss: Indiana
Thursday December 22nd, at 7:30 on ESPN, are you brave enough to watch the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. Welcome to the campus of TCU in Fort Worth, Texas and being hosted by the good folks at Lockheed Martin who sold 67.04 billion in tools of war in 2021 alone. Are you going to tell Lockheed Martin that you are too busy to watch this sports washing event? When they call blow your ass into tiny pieces. You can't even say it to the Air Force Cadets? What about Baylor, who is favored by -5.5.
The Baylor Bears (6-6) placed 6th in the Big 12.
Best Win: Texas Tech Worst Loss: West Virginia
The Air Force Falcons tied for second in the Mountain West Mountain Division.
Best Win: San Diego St Worst Loss: Utah State
The Independence Bowl is one of the longest running minor bowls, beginning in 1976, the bicentennial ergo the name Independence Bowl, although one year it went 100% sponsor name. We here at the Bowl Beverage Bonanza prefer the sponsor and name combination. Radiance Technologies is a company that gives every employee part ownership of the company that get this MAKES SPACE LASERS, SECRET JETS, and ALL KINDS OF SPY STUFF. You can get a job cleaning toilets at Radiance Technologies and you are part owner of a freaking spy company. That's badass. Also good enough reason as any to watch the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, Friday December 23rd at 3 on ESPN. Houston is a 7 point favorite.
Houston Cougars (7-5) placed 5th in the American. Best win: UTSA Worst Loss: Tulsa
Louisanna Ragin' Cajuns (6-6) finished tied for third in the Sun Belt West. Best Win: Marshall
Worst Loss: ULM Monroe
Friday December 23rd, on ESPN at 6:30 pm, it's the Gasparilla Bowl! A bowl named after a mythical Caribbean Pirate, played in a stadium with a pirate ship!
I'm excited. Plus we might actually get to see the cannons fired, unlike waiting for touchdowns by mid life crisis Tom Brady. Wake Forest is a 1 point favorite.
Wake Forest Demon Deacons (7-5) were 6th in the ACC Atlantic. Best win: Florida St Worst Loss: Louisville
The Missouri Tigers (6-6) finished 4th in the SEC East. Best Win: South Carolina Worst Loss: Auburn
It's Christmas Eve and you are assembling some bullshit from "Santa" to put under the tree. So turn to ESPN at 8:00 for the Easy Post Hawaii Bowl. This is one of my favorite bowl games because the idea of it being Christmas Eve and I'm gambling on a game in a land that is the furthest away from any other inhabited place in the world. Enjoy that fun fact. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals. San Diego State are a 7 point favorite.
The San Diego State Aztecs (7-5) placed 2nd in the Mountain West. Best Win: San Jose St Worst Loss: Arizona
The Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders (7-5) finished 4th in Conference USA. Best Win: Rice Worst Loss: Louisiana Tech
After that awful Christmas without a single bowl game, we get some Boxing Day greatness, with the Quick Lane Bowl. The New Mexico State Aggies had to petition the NCAA to get into this game after a game against San Jose St was canceled. It's New Mexico State's first bowl game since 2017, their second since 1960 and the first one not played in a damn desert in their history (1 Arizona Bowl, and 3 Sun Bowls (El Paso, TX) They should be worried though because they most go to Detroit, home of the MAC title game vs MAC member Bowling Green, who is a -3.5 favorite.
New Mexico State Aggies (6-6) are an independent and are 5th out of 7 of those. Best Win: Liberty Worst Loss: Nevada
The Bowling Green Falcons (6-6) placed tied for 2nd in the MAC East. Best Win: Toledo Worst Loss: Eastern Kentucky (FCS)
It's the state flower of Alabama, it's a bowl, it's December 27th at noon, on ESPN. The Camellia looks like a rose but if that rose was raised in
Alabama Buffalo had to reschedule a game with Akron and win late just to qualify for a holiday trip to Montgomery, Alabama to play in a stadium used by high school teams built over a garbage dump 100 years ago. Georgia Southern is a 3.5 point favorite.
The Buffalo Bulls (6-6) placed 2nd in the MAC East. Best Win: Toledo Worst Loss: Holy Cross
The Georgia Southern Eagles (6-6) finished 4th in the Sun Belt East. Best Win: James Madison
Worst Loss: Georgia State
It's December 27th, at 3:15 and your TV is still on ESPN so enjoy the Servpro F1rst Responder Bowl. Servpro is fire and disaster cleaning and repair company. So in order to feed their families they are rooting for natural disasters to destroy your home. What a bunch of dicks. Best to keep an eye on them and what they are up to by watching the ServPro F1rst Responder Bowl. Memphis is a 7 point favorite.
The Memphis Tigers (6-6) were good enough for 8th in the American. Best Win: North Texas Worst Loss: East Carolina
The Utah State Aggies (6-6) placed 3rd in the Western division of the Mountain West. Best Win: Air Force Worst Loss: Weber St
Keep keeping that channel on ESPN because come 7:15 it's the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl. TicketSmarter is the official ticket service of the Big Ten and Pac 12 so it's only reasonable for TicketSmarter to sponsor the Ticketsmarter Birmingham Bowl featuring teams from the Sun Belt and the American. Click
here to get your tickets in a smarter way, TicketSmarter. East Carolina is a 7.5 favorite.
The East Carolina Pirates (7-5) finished 6th in the American. Best Win: UCF Worst Loss: Navy
The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (9-3) placed 2nd in the Sun Belt East. Best Win: Marshall Worst Loss: Old Dominion
Grab a cup of coffee because the Guaranteed Rate Bowl doesn't kick off until 10:15pm. It's played in the Arizona Diamondback ballpark so that is always visually appealing. You might remember the Guaranteed Rate Bowl under some of it's previous names such as the Copper, Insight.com, Buffalo Wild Wings, Cactus, and of course Cheez-It. Who knows how many more years we will get to enjoy the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, next year it could easily be the Wild Bill's Waco Market Pizza Bowl. Guaranteed Rate is like 749th mortgage company to sponsor a bowl so I am out of jokes for it. Warning: The goalposts are not made of cacti, which would be super sweet if it was. Wisconsin is three points favorite.
The Wisconsin Badgers (6-6) finished 5th in the Big Ten West. Best Win: Purdue Worst Loss: Michigan St
Oklahoma State Cowboys (7-5) Best win: Texas Tech Worst Loss: West Virginia
It's Wednesday December 28th, and we get four games again today, so praise the maker. It starts off with the Military Bowl presented by Peraton. Peraton does not make inside bikes, it in fact is our second sponsor that makes instruments of death, so that's fun. But don't worry, Peraton is donating all of the profits from the Military Bowl to the USO so the troops that are away from their families to support the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about can see a Trace Adkins concert or maybe this
show. Really though the most important thing is two college football teams are getting together so we can bet on it. So tune into ESPN at 2:00 pm and see if Duke can cover as a three point favorite.
The University of Central Florida Knights (9-4) finished second the American Conference. Best Win: Tulane Worst Loss: Navy
The Duke Blue Devils (8-4) placed 2nd in the ACC Coastal. Best Win: Wake Forest Worst Loss: Georgia Tech
It's our second game of the day, so you are clearly in the zone, Autozone Liberty Bowl, on ESPN at 5:30. The game is played in Memphis, Tennessee and uses the Liberty Bell as logo because the game was played in Philadelphia the first few years, but they kept the logo despite being in Memphis since 1965. It's kind of like the Utah Jazz (New Orleans), Los Angeles Lakers (Minneapolis), or the Des Moines Mayles (Waco). Arkansas Razorbacks are 3 point favorites.
The Arkansas Razorbacks (6-6) finished 5th in the SEC West. Best Win: Ole Miss Worst Loss: Texas A&M
The Kansas Jayhawks (6-6) ended up 8th in the Big 12. Best Win: Houston Worst Loss: Oklahoma
We haven't used it in a long time but find that remote because the San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl is the first game not being broadcast by Mickey Mouse. The San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl starts at 8 pm on FOX. We get yet another game played in a MLB park. This game was outright canceled in 2020 and a team outbreak of COVID canceled the game in 2021. When the San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl kicks off this season, it will be 1,096 days since the last one. Really makes you think about what is important in life, and all of those things don't mean shit compared to the San Diego County County Credit Union Holiday Bowl. Oregon is a 14.5 favorite.
North Carolina Tarheels (9-4) won the ACC Coastal. Best win: Pittsburgh Worst Lost: Georgia Tech
Oregon Ducks (9-3) finished 3rd the in the PAC-12. Best Win: Utah Worst Loss: No bad teams but got slaughtered by Georgia.
Make sure the batteries in the remote are good and charged because you will have to flip back and forth to FOX to ESPN at 9:00 for the Tax Act Texas Bowl. Don't forget to claim all those beverages on your 2023 when you win this year's Bowl Beverage Boogaloo using Tax Act of course. The winner of this game will have more wins in NRG Stadium than the NFL team that calls it home, the Houston Texans. Ole Miss is 3.5 favorite.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders (7-5) placed 4th in the Big 12. Best Win: Texas Worst Loss: Baylor
The Mississippi Runnin' Rebels (8-4) third in the SEC West. Best Win: Troy Worst Loss: Arkansas
It's December 29th, it's 2:00 in the afternoon so flip on ESPN, to view another MLB stadium bowl, as it's the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl. The game might not be great but you know that field is going to be cut fresh. Watch Minnesota trying to cover as a 10 point favorite, as you remember that great summer middle aged man feeling when you first look out the window at your freshly mowed lawn. That's right, you did that shit. That grass was longer than it was just a scant few hours ago, now it's shorter and that's because of you. Soak it in you glorious bastard. You deserve it.
The Syracuse Orange (7-5) ended the season 3rd in the ACC Atlantic. Best Win: Purdue Worst Loss: Wake Forest
The Minnesota Golden Gophers (8-4) finished 2nd in the Big Ten West. Best Win: Wisconsin Worst Loss: Iowa
Just keep it on ESPN because the Cheez-It Bowl starts at 5:30. Now bear with me, this Cheez-it Bowl is actually the bowl played in Florida (Miami then Orlando) that has been played under the following names
- Blockbuster Bowl (1990–1993)
- Carquest Bowl (1994–1997)
- MicronPC Bowl (1998)
- MicronPC.com Bowl (1999–2000)
- Visit Florida Tangerine Bowl (2001)
- Mazda Tangerine Bowl (2002–2003)
- Champs Sports Bowl (2004–2011)
- Russell Athletic Bowl (2012–2016)
- Camping World Bowl (2017–2019)
This is not the Cheez-It Bowl that was played in Arizona under the following names
- Copper Bowl (1989)
- Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl (1990–1991)
- Weiser Lock Copper Bowl (1992–1995)
- Copper Bowl (1996)
- Insight.com Bowl (1997–2001)
- Insight Bowl (2002–2011)
- Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (2012–2013)
- TicketCity Cactus Bowl (2015)
- Motel 6 Cactus Bowl (2016, 2 games)
- Cactus Bowl (2017)
- Cheez-It Bowl (2018–2019)
Got it good. Also side note, really weird that Florida St (-9) and Oklahoma are playing in something called the Cheez-it Bowl.
The Oklahoma Sooners (6-6) finished 7th in the Big 12. Best Win: Kent State, Oklahoma St Worst Loss: West Virginia
Florida State Seminoles (9-3) 2nd in the ACC Atlantic. Best Win: Syracuse Worst Loss: Wake Forest
The Valero Alamo Bowl ends your evening at 9:00 on ESPN. It's our second matchup of the year with two ranked teams and the first with both being from power conferences. The game is played in the Alamo Dome which has hosted the Spurs for 9 seasons, the Big 12 championship 3 times, 6 NFL preseason games, hosted the Saints for a few games after Hurricane Katrina, a NCAA Final Four, and is currently used for the home stadium for the UTSA Roadrunners. It also hosted a Candanian Football League team for season, the San Antonio Texans. It also has hosted 2 Royal Rumbles 1997 (Stone Cold Steve Austin won) 2017 (Randy Orton) and will host the 2023 version. You want some gambling on that too? Get at me bro. Texas is a 4 point favorite.
The Texas Longhorns (8-4) placed 3rd in the Big 12. Best Win: Kansas St Worst Loss: Oklahoma St
The Washington Huskies (10-2) finished 2nd in the PAC-12. Best Win: Kent State, Oregon Worst Loss: Arizona St.
It's Friday, December 30th and the Duke's Mayo Bowl starts at noon on ESPN. There is one and only one reason to watch the Duke's Mayo Bowl. The winning coach does not get Gatorade dumped on them but in fact gets buried in mayonnaise. Here is South Carolina's coach getting it
last year. It's a thing of beauty. Will it be Mike Locksley of Maryland or NC State's Dave Doeren. There is no way of knowing until the game's over because this one is pick 'em.
The Maryland Terrapins (7-5) placed 4th in the Big Ten East. Best Win: Michigan St Worst Loss: Wisconsin
The North Carolina State Wolfpack (8-4) 3rd in the ACC Atlantic. Best Win: Florida State Worst Loss: Boston College
At 2:00 you can flip it over to CBS as it is our second of 3 games not aired by ESPN/ABC because it's the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl is hitting you from El Paso, Texas. The Sun Bowl has been played since 1935. The UCLA Bruins must be grrrrrrreat because they are 4.5 point favorites. The Sun Bowl also hosts a basketball tournament which was won by the Kent State Golden Flashes. So grab a bowl of Frosted Flakes and enjoy the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl.
The Pittsburgh Panthers (8-4) placed 2nd in the ACC Coastal division. Best Win: Syracuse Worst Loss: Georgia Tech
The UCLA Bruins (9-3) was 5th in the Pac 12. Best Win: Utah Worst Loss: Arizona
Back over to ESPN at 3:30 for the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. It started in 1946 and the excitement hasn't stopped. In case you wondered how to make sure you were watching the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl and not the TaxSlayer Crocodile Bowl? I got you fam.
Notre Dame is a two point favorite.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-4) Best Win: Clemson Worst Loss: Marshall
The South Carolina Gamecocks (8-4) placed 3rd in the SEC East. Best Win: Tennessee Worst Loss: Florida
The Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl kicks off at 4:30 and airs on something called the Barstool network which is an app. All I know about the Barstool network is that some people really love them and some really hate them. The first Arizona Bowl known as the Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl featured two teams from the same conference (MW) and was the first non championship game to do so since the 1979 Orange Bowl. Ohio is 1 point favorite.
The Ohio Bobcats (9-4) won the MAC East. Best Win: Buffalo Worst Loss: Iowa State
The Wyoming Cowboys (7-5) placed 2nd in the Mountain West Mountain Division. Best Win: Air Force Worst Loss: San Jose St
The Capital One Orange Bowl, 8:00 on ESPN, is the first of the New Year's 6 Bowls. There is going to be a shitload of orange in the Orange Bowl as Clemson is a 5.5 point favorite over Tennessee. Which is great because oranges are good for you.
One medium-sized orange has:
- 60 calories.
- No fat or sodium.
- 3 grams of fiber.
- 12 grams of sugar.
- 1 gram of protein.
- 14 micrograms of vitamin A.
- 70 milligrams of vitamin C.
- 6% of your daily recommended amount of calcium.
So wrap up our long day of five games with a tasty orange, because your body is going to need it before we do it all again tomorrow with 4 more games.
The Tennessee Volunteers (10-2) finished 2nd in the SEC East. Best Win: Alabama Worst Loss: South Carolina
The Clemson Tigers (11-2) were ACC Champions. Best Win: Wake Forest Worst Loss: Notre Dame
It's Saturday December 31st, end your year and start your day, at noon on ESPN with the AllState Sugar Bowl. You'll be in good hands with this New Orleans tradition. The average American eats 60 pounds of sugar a year. So maybe make your New Year's Resolution to eat less sugar, because you aren't giving up bowl games. That shit is essential. In the Essential Allstate Sugar Bowl, Alabama is a 6.5 point favorite.
The Kansas State Wildcats (10-3) won the Big 12. Best Win: TCU Worst Loss: Texas
The Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2) tied for the SEC West but lost the tie breaker. Best Win: Texas Worst Loss: LSU
If you don't like Sugar maybe you enjoy an entire city playing country music, because at noon on ABC, it's the Transperfect Music City Bowl. Sorry Jason, Transperfect is not what you think it is and isn't a solution to your the Ukrainian mail order bride accidently sent a dude problem. Transperfect is a translation service so if you want, Nick has been terrible at bowl picks in hundreds of different languages, Transperfect is the service for you. Iowa is favored by 2.5.
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The Iowa Hawkeyes (7-5) placed 2nd in the Big Ten West. Best Win: Purdue Worst Loss: Iowa State
The Kentucky Wildcats (7-5) finished 4th in the SEC East. Best Win: Miss St Worst Loss: Vanderbilt
At 4:00 on ESPN, it's the VRBO Fiesta Bowl. What a cash grab this game is. It isn't even the final game for one of the teams. What kind of bowl game is that. Not one I want any part of, I can you that. If you want you rent a VRBO in Glendale just click
here. Michigan is 7.5 favorite in this game, but really this game is silly.
The Michigan Wolverines (13-0) won the Big Ten. Best Win: Ohio State Worst Loss: Nothing you idiot, Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement.
The Texas Christian Horned Frogs (12-1) lost in the Big 12 Championship game. Best Win: Kanas State Worst Loss: Kanas St WHOA MIND BLOWN.
The only way your TV is still on ESPN at 8:00 must be because the batteries in your remote died after that last worthless game and here comes another one. It's the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl. One of the team's in this "playoff" didn't even with the division of it's conference and it's playing for a national title? What is going here? I can't believe they put these two pointless wastes of time back to back. I hope we can get back to normal soon. The defending champ Georgia is a 6.5 point favorite.
The Ohio State Buckeyes (11-1) 2nd in the Big Ten East. Best Win: Penn State Worst Loss: Michigan
Georgia Bulldogs (13-0) won the SEC. Best Win: Kent State, Tennessee Worst Loss: Getting stuck in this pointless game.
We are back to normal on January 2nd with the Reliaquest Bowl at noon on ESPN2. It used to be the Outback Bowl so no free blooming onion for ya next day. Maybe we will get lucky and Reliaquest, a cyber security company, will give away some free AOL hours or something. Max, back when the internet when through your wall mounted phone line, you had to purchase hours worth of online time through American Online. They would give out promo discs for a free couple of hours of internet use. A trust me you needed hours to do anything because it was slow as hell. Mississippi State is a one point favorite despite their hilarious coach, Mike Leach passed away since their final regular season game.
The Mississippi State Bulldogs (8-4) placed 3rd in the SEC West. Best Win: Ole Miss Worst Loss: Kentucky
The Illinois Fightin' Illini (8-4) finished 2nd in the Big Ten West. Best Win: Minnesota Worst Loss: Indiana
You know what pairs great with Cheez-It crackers? Some goddamn oranges and grapefruits. This game was called the Tangerine Bowl for 37 years until changed to just Citrus in general. Tangerines just couldn't handle the spot light and shriveled up. The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl starts at 1 on ABC. LSU is a 14.5 point favorite in this matchup of conference title game losers.
The Louisiana State University Tigers (9-4) won the SEC West. Best Win: Alabama Worst Loss: Texas A&M
The Purdue Boilermakers (8-5) won the Big Ten West. Best Win: Illinois Worst Loss: Syracuse
We've got three games at once, friends. We've reached Nirvana. The Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic features my personal favorite bowl game scenario. The Group of 5 team that got to crash the party is going to play like their hair is on fire. USC is a two point favorite with the Heisman trophy winner at quarterback. The Cotton Bowl Classic used to be played in the Cotton Bowl. The actual Cotton Bowl also used to host the F1rst Responders Bowl and now is bowless. Sad.
The Tulane Green Wave (11-2) won the American Conference. Best Win: UCF Worst Loss: Southern Miss
The University of Southern California Trojans (11-2) lost in the Pac-12 championship game. Best Win: Norte Dame Worst Loss: Utah x 2
The Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential features the Utah Utes for the second consecutive season and are 2.5 point favorites. When I think of Prudential, I still think of the mid nineties NBA on NBC Sunday afternoon game.
You are hearing the banger theme song right now aren't you. Get your piece of the Rock at the beautiful Rose Bowl. It really is ascetically pleasing, but not as ascetically pleasing are Pat Riley's hair after young me rooted with all his heart against those sons of bitches, Chicago Bulls. Max has no idea what I am talking about. Back in the day Max, you got 1 NBA week and it was always the damn Bulls, always.
The Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions (10-2) were third in the Big Ten East. Best Win: Purdue Worst Loss: Ohio State
The Utah Utes (10-3) won the Pac-12. Best Win: USC Worst Loss: Florida
