For the final Bowl Season Recap, it’ll cover games between Monday, December 30th, to Saturday, January 4th, from the narrative of a specific conference being flushed down the drain to high-scoring affairs. While everyone can’t watch every game, Bowl season contains a narrative that every game was a thriller this year. Unfortunately, not so much for the fans who believe that the SEC is the top conference, when the BIG 10 had the most bowl wins this year.
Transparent Music City Bowl: #19 Missouri beats Iowa: 27-24
Ok, maybe not this one for Missouri fans. Yet you beat an Iowa team led by Brenden Sullivan on a 4th and 1 stand? Do you Tigers have any form of shame to be led on like this? Even when you win, giving up that many points to IOWA when you play like that? For shame…
Reliaquest Bowl: Michigan beats #11 Alabama: 19-13
Alright, Alabama. You guys were whining about being snubbed out of the playoffs. You’re playing against a depleted Michigan team that barely has any of its starters playing, and you guys have most of your team starting as well. They are nowhere near the status they were last year, and even split snaps at quarterback to a guy who is going to literally transfer out soon. You guys definitely got this in the bag because of all this, right?
*Sounds of building collapsing can be heard in the background*
Alabama? ALABAMA? Don’t tell me you laid an egg to this Michigan team did you?..you did, didn’t you?
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl: Louisville beats Washington: 35-34
Washington ends up realizing that unless they’re at home, they have zero chance of winning elsewhere. Unfortunately for the Huskies, they were in Texas this bowl game, so Louisville will happily take this win from you.
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl: #20 Illinois beats #15 South Carolina: 21-17
If you ever tell any coach or player that bowl season doesn’t matter anymore, please go ahead and try telling that to the newlywed and coaches of this game. Yes, a couple really was celebrating their marriage in a college football game. Their gift was the teams were practically ready to turn this matchup into another instance of the Royal Rumble. And the best part about this? The players didn’t cause it, it was Illinois HC Bret Bielema taunting SC HC Shane Bremer, after one of Bret’s players went down. Apparently, it really got into Shane’s head.
Kinder’s Texas Bowl: LSU beats Baylor: 44-31
Oh Baylor, after suffering in mediocrity for a long time, you finally managed to get back to a bowl game! Good for you…unfortunately, it seems that the Tigers are far more superior than the Bears. Don’t let the score fool you, it wasn’t even close.
Taxslayer Gator Bowl: #14 Ole Miss beats Duke: 52-20
I would be talking about how Ole Miss completely wiped the floor against the Dukes, but apparently, Lane Kiffin is more worried about tweeting all about the playoffs, rooting for Penn State to beat SMU, conference prestige, and dissing Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia. Well Lane, if you didn’t happen to lose to Kentucky and Florida, you wouldn’t be in this situation, but here you are now…he’s still tweeting is he?
Servpro First Responder Bowl: Texas State beats North Texas: 30-28
The true battle for Texas, in a Texas stadium! Unfortunately, the soul of SMU stadium kind of died out after SMU’s flameout in the playoffs, but only true fans of College Football got to see the true Texas matchup! Luckily for the Bobcats, Drew Mestemaker, who didn’t have his first start since his JV squad back in High School, can crown themselves as Texas’s only team…well besides the Longhorns of course.
Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Minnesota beats Virginia Tech: 24-10
I mean, did you really pay any attention to this game, or did you just want to see a coach get a cooler of mayo dumped onto him? Somewhere in Tennessee, Will Levis really was eying this game out for that moment.
Bahamas Bowl: Buffalo beats Liberty: 26-7
The final non-playoff bowl of the season, and it had absolutely everything you could have asked for. A race on the blue track that had Kids racing against a dog, guys shirtless eating burgers while supporting Liberty QB Ryan Burger, an enthusiastic sideline reporter in Harry Lyles Jr. And to top it all off, Buffalo winning their 4th straight bowl game as a blue team, on a blue track. What a way to end this non-playoff Bowl season.
