I feel badly. 11 Warriors is not providing coverage of all the exciting college football bowl games that are going on right now under your nose. So I thought I would provide some updates. This is exciting stuff; that's why I'm telling you so.
Tonight the 8-4 Marshall Thundering Herd took on the 7-5 South Florida (So Fla) Bulls in the (this is no bull) Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl. The Herd prevailed 38-20 trampling the So Fla Bulls on their regular home-field cow pasture in Tampa.
Wednesday night the 7-5 San Diego State Aztecs fought the 8-4 Ohio Bobcats in the DXL Frisco Bowl in Frisco, Texas (aka Dallas-Ft Worth metro area). Either the Bobcats were too frisky hissing and snarling as they clawed their way to a 27-0 win or else the Aztecs just played dead.
On Tuesday night the 10-3 Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) Blazers went against the 8-5 Northern Illinois Huskies in the Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, Florida. Boca Raton is Spanish for "mouse mouth," but don't ask what a cheribundi is. It has something to do with squeezing the juice out of a hot tart, but I'm not going there. The Blazers blazed new trails just two seasons after having shut down their football program, and won their first bowl game-- ever.
Last weekend had five, count them, five (5) outstanding bowl contests you definitely should know about.
In the Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl, the 10-2 Fresno State Bulldogs chewed up and spit-out the 7-5 Arizona State Sun Devils, a mighty Power 5 football power in the Pac-12 left-coast conference. The mastication ended at 31-20.
In the Autonation Cure Bowl at Disney World aka Orlando, Florida, most fans took pictures of the kids with Mickey Mouse and then went to a Mickey Mouse bowl game to see the 6-6 Tulane Green Wave swamp the 7-6 Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns 41-24.
The 10-2 Utah State Aggies stomped the flightless 8-4 North Texas State Eagles 52-13 and left their feathered carcasses on the cold turf of the New Mexico Bowl Presented by Progressive in freezing Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The 10-2 Georgia Southern Eagles flew by the 7-5 Eastern Michigan Emus (actually Eagles) 23-21 in the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in fabulous Montgomery, Alabama.
And last but not least, in the famous R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, the 10-2 Appalachian State Mountaineers easily climbed over the 8-5 Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders 45-13.
Those of you who watched these games, will you please fill in the exciting details for those who were unable to enjoy them?
And don't worry, we've got you covered for tomorrow's two Friday nights under the lights when:
7-5 Toledo takes on 8-4 Fla Int'l in the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl in the Nassau soccer stadium, and also
7-5 Western Michigan takes on 6-6 BYU in the Famous (I did not add Famous) Idaho Potato Bowl on the Smurf Turf in Boise, Idaho.
