Bowl games are supposed to be fun. They mean something different for every college football team, but there is one commonality: they’re a reward after a long, hard season. That reward should be fun, and this year, the bowl system embraced the fun in the most delightful manner possible.
Bowl season is still underway, with many interesting matchups in prolific games on the horizon, but Saturday served as the crescendo for the chaos. Big names were competing in eight games that made the most of the unusual circumstances bowls create. Let’s start with the one everybody is talking about, the Pop-Tarts Bowl.