The ball will drop on 2015 and the curtain will rise on a bowl sponsored by a dubiously Australian chain restaurant in stadium with a pirate ship. The Outback Bowl pits a surprise 10-2 Northwestern team gunning for a record eleventh win, continuation of a storied bowl winning streak, and the coveted Crystal Boomerang.
#DETACHABLEBOOMERANG because you should be able to menace a group of Kangaroos,
which Wikipedia tells me can be called a mob, a troop, or a court
The most disappointing thing about the Outback Bowl is not its exclusion from the mysterious New Year's Six grouping or its noon kickoff time in the Eastern time zone; it is the lack of absurd and bogus Australian trappings.