Breaking down—and predicting—every remaining game as we close out the college football season with a flourish.
Forty-plus names, games, teams and minutiae making news this bloated bowl season:
WELCOME TO BOWL SEASON. LET’S HOPE IT’S ABOVE AVERAGE
We are approaching the 120th anniversary of the first bowl game: the 1902 Rose Bowl, a 49–0 Michigan rout of Stanford. Unlike in recent decades, that game assuredly was not timed around the sunset over the San Gabriel Mountains; there were no stadium lights back then, so playing the fourth quarter after dark would have been inadvisable.