First and foremost, hat tip to the LA Times' Zach Helfand for the excellent chart he put together that inspired this post. You can follow him on Twitter at @zhelfand.
College bowl season is almost here. And as has been the trend in recent years, bowl season is more and more inclusive as the number of bowls seems to increase every season.
There are now 40 different college bowl games (41 if you count the College Football Playoff). That means 80 different schools will get bids to play in a bowl game at the end of this season.