Thirteen days will have passed in between the day when all bowl matchups were announced and the day when college football’s greatest time of the year kicks off.
Until then, we’ll spend our days analyzing all 39 matchups to the eighth decimal place, attempting to predict each matchup correctly, and debating about why (insert team here) got snubbed from the playoff/New Year’s Six/Belk Bowl.
Although the transitive property doesn’t always apply in football (Eastern Michigan is 30 points better than Ohio State according to the property), one interesting method of comparing bowl matchups is common opponents. Only two MAC matchups feature teams with a common opponent this year.