Maybe the best part about bowl season, at least if you’re one of the players, is all the free stuff. Every bowl trip means extra practice and often it involves travel during the holidays, but hey, free stuff, man! Under NCAA rules, bowl games are allowed to hand out hundreds of dollars’ worth of gifts, in varying degrees of quality. (Quality is not mandated, unfortunately.)
According to Sports Business Journal, NC State and Vanderbilt players will enjoy a gift suite, a Timely Watch Company watch (whatever that is), a New Era skullcap, and a commemorative football.