College Football 2022: The 5 Most Anticipated Games Of The Bowl Season

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As a rabid college football fan, I felt this was the perfect time for me to announce that I am opting in to the college football bowl season. It’s the best time of the year. With the College Football Playoff decreasing the desire for players to play in the lower-tier bowls, a dedicated sicko committee member like myself is ready for mid football. Here are the five most anticipated games of the bowl season, excluding the College Football Playoff.

5. Transperfect Music City Bowl

Iowa vs. Kentucky

What better way to prepare for the College Football Playoffs on New Year’s Eve than watching a game where the combined offensive numbers might not reach 200 total yards? The Hawkeyes and Wildcats are destined to be a part of a hideous bowl game.

Iowa will be starting a third-string QB, while Kentucky will be without their two top offensive performers in, QB Will Levis and RB Chris Rodriguez have decided to opt out of the game. Betting the under would seem like the ideal situation for anyone looking at the action on this one. Or is this what Vegas wants us to think?

4. Duluth Trading Cure Bowl

#25 UTSA vs. #24 Troy

Bowl season kicks off this Friday, and fans are getting a dandy of a matchup in the Duluth Trading Cure Bowl. After researching, UTSA and Troy are real teams, and they are both ranked in the Top 25. A win for one of these programs will catapult expectations of the hundreds, and The Rock means hundreds, of their fans.

I’m torn about who I will root for in this one. Troy is led by head coach Jon Sumrall, who spent time at Kentucky as the linebackers coach while also playing for the Cats in the early 2000s. On the other side, UTSA is known as the Roadrunners. Huge Roadrunner fan back in my Looney Tunes days. I’m riding with the former Cat.

3. Wasabi Fenway Bowl

Cincinnati vs. Louisville

The Wasabi Fenway Bowl has everything a fan could want. First, it has the best name of all the bowls this season. Second, it is played on a baseball field. Finally, head coach Scott Satterfield just left Louisville, accepting the coaching job at *checks notes* Cincinnati.

While I’m sure, Satterfield will be nowhere near the sideline for this one. Oh yeah, both teams will be standing on the same sideline because this is being played on a baseball field. What should be the starting line for brawls that will break out in this one? I’m setting the early O/U at 2.5.

2. Capital One Orange Bowl

#6 Tennessee vs. #7 Clemson

The Capital One Orange Bowl has the potential to give fans exactly what they want to see. That would be the Orange Bowl. While I’m sure, there’s an annoying rule from the NCAA saying both teams cannot wear all orange. Imagine that being our reality?

Both teams have to be decked out in Orange from head to toe. The game shouldn’t be played with a football but rather with oranges. Fans are not allowed entry unless they are dressed in orange, and the only drinks served at the concessions will be orange juice and orange Crush. God, I hate both of these teams.

1. Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic

I was today years old when I found out the Cotton Bowl is actually called the Cotton Bowl Classic. It sounds more like a basketball tournament than a football game, but here we are. In my best Brad Nessler voice from EA College Football, “It will be the Green Waves of Tulane taking on the Trojans of USC.”

The darlings of the bowl season will look to take down the newly crowned Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams. Williams will have enough room on his fingers to write “fuck Tulane” However, he will be at his character limit. I wonder if Elon could add more characters for Williams?

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