Obscure, irrelevant bowl games: C/D? S/D?

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Since Southern Miss and Arkansas State have commenced a solid month of second-rate halftime shows, announcers in Hawaiian shirts, 6-5 Mountain West teams throwing for 600 yards, and way too many commercials for Gaylord Hotels.

So how about it? Does anyone ever watch these things? Are any of the games actually going to be any good? Any classic WTF moments from Carquest Bowls and EV1.net Houston Bowls past? And has anything ever rolled off the tongue quite so poetically as "The San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl"?

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

These bowls serve one purpose in my life- to have something to watch on TV when I'm visiting my parents over the holidays.

I'm also saddened that the Cotton Bowl has become a second tier bowl game.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Sun Bowl + Verne Lundquist > sex

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I had fun back in college getting drunk watching IU play in the Peach Bowl or Auto Parts'R Us Bowl. Did we win, I don't remember.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Go Rockets!!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

How is it in our football media saturated age that I only find out tonight that Carson Palmer has a brother and he is a pretty good college QB at UTEP?

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 22 December 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

hey, that BYU/Cal game was pretty darn great!

what can I say, I'm a junkie. I'll now be switching over to that there San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 23 December 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Midshipmen lookin good! whatup Blount!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 23 December 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

The Nevada-Central Florida game was great; UCF came back from 10 down in the last two minutes to tie and force OT, only to have their kicker shank an extra point and lose 49-48. The crowd on hand (Christmas Eve, Hawaii, two less-than-marquee names) maybe topped 5,000.

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Sunday, 25 December 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I didn't even watch the Cal/BYU game, and I'm a Cal fan!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

wow. watching this Oregon/Oklahoma game .... it's official: the mighty Keith Jackson has turned into Pat Summerall. he sounds senile and oblivious.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 30 December 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

...oh, but what a finish!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 30 December 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Oklahoma does have the best jersey name I have seen in awhile with their defensive lineman "AH YOU".

I know Michigan is down this year, but I was still suprised Nebraska won their bowl game. After the Raiders fell apart after the Superbowl, Callahan seemed to me to be one guy you did not want running your team.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 30 December 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

The head dude for the Peach Bowl just said that the new 5-yr. contract with Chick-Fil-A allows them to take "Peach" out of the title and call it the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

But "Peach" is such a comfortable word. "Chick-Fil-A" just makes me think of soggy sandwiches wrapped in foil.

And if I see another one of those goddamned "Eat Mor Chikin" commercials, I'm gonna dropkick my tv.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 31 December 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

presumably this means it will never be scheduled for a sunday

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 31 December 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

haha so it's pretty funny to be watching a rerun of the peach bowl not knowing the results, see miami kick their fg and then go 'hmm, i wonder who won' and then see the results. ye gods.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Minnesota Golden Gophers to thread!!!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

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