Quick Lane Bowl (Detroit): Bowling Green (7-5) vs. Without further ado, let’s rank all 41 games, from the Quick Lane Bowl to The Granddaddy of Them All.
The answer key for the quiz is near the end of the article. Speaking of sponsors, I’m adding a few elements, including breakout charts on the most-delicious-food sponsors, a Very Sickos Committee New Year and a quiz on how well you know your bowl promoters.
Not that it will stop the rest of us from tuning in. But also, you’ll probably survive without a trip to the Boca Raton Bowl. So if the program you root for didn’t reach bowl eligibility this season? Yikes. That’s more than a quarter of bowl participants. Of the 82 bowl teams, 21 have a record of 6-6. But the sad realization I came to while doing this exercise is how terrible so many of these matchups are. (I searched.) Picking the best bowls was relatively easy - especially the obvious choice of putting the CFP semifinals at the top of the list. I can still close my eyes and hear ESPN’s old “most wonderful time of the year” commercial jingle that has somehow been lost to the deep recesses of the internet.
