Does anyone remember when there were just a handful of bowl games that represented the cream of the cream of college football teams. Let's see: Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, at some point the Fiesta Bowl and Sun Bowls crept into the mix. At the end of the college season you could argue how the top 5 teams ranked amongst themselves...but you KNEW who the top 5 were! Now there are 33 bowl games PLUS the BCS Championship Game. 33 bowl games played between December 20th and January 8th (oh yes...no longer does the season end on January 1st!). 34 bowls! That is 68 football teams that get to play in a bowl game. Is anyone NOT playing in a bowl game? Gee wow!
And some of the names are...well...hysterical...here are a few:
The MagicJack St. Petersburg bowl (on the TV as I type)
R+L Carriers New Orleans
Meineke Car Care Bowl
Papajohns.com bowl (I love the .com bit)
Chick-Fil-A Bowl
Konica Minolta Gator Bowl
the AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Of the "original" five:
AT&T Cotton Bowl
FedEx Orange Bowl
Allstate Sugar Bowl
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
and
Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi (curiously not the Citi Rose Bowl Game)
And then the most curious...we have the International Bowl in Toronto...the two teams playing? Buffalo and Connecticut...don't you think at least one should be Canadian?
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