Holy nightmare matchups, Batman!

We've got some bowl matchups to discuss. But first I want you to see my favorite part of the Florida - Alabama game.


A lot of people have said I'm a bad person for wishing ill on Tim Tebow.

I am not. I am a bad person for lots of other reasons, but I stand by my opinion that Tim Tebow has been over-fellated this year. A friend said to me that it was fun when he was a freshman phenom but now it's just tiring. I don't like any team that would put a plaque on the stadium walls of a "speech" he gave while he was still enrolled in the school (albeit probably taking 3 credits or something). And so I rooted for Alabama, and look at me now.

Yes, I may have had to root for a team coached by Nick Saban, who I am pretty sure has had hair plugs (that head of hair is just incredible). But at the end of the day, I stand by my decision.

That said, the title game isn't probably going to be very good. Texas - Alabama? Hard to get excited about.

So let's talk about some bowl matchups I am excited about.

First, I fully support the TCU - Boise State matchup, and here's why: because they're playing each other, I don't have to care about either of them. Whichever wins will be a top 5 team and it will be great, but it's once impossible to judge whether they deserve to be there because they're playing the other non-real conference team. So if Boise State wins? whatever. And if TCU wins? Huh.

It's basically like whoever wins that game is the better of the two teams that no one can really tell if they're good or not.

I already shared my disinterest in the title game.

The entire list is below. I shamelessly ripped off of ESPN's Web site.

A few thoughts:

1) Best name of a bowl this year: R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl or Papajohns.com Bowl? Or Jesus, the Brut Sun Bowl or the Advo Care V100 Independence Bowl? I don't even know what that last one means. It's very troubling to me that the sponsors keep getting weirder and weirder on these bowls.

Do Emerald Nuts believe that I am more likely to buy their product because they sponsor the bowl my team is going to get destroyed in? And if so, then why did they drop the "nuts" part of the bowl, which really was the best part.

Does Meineke think the "Car Care" part of the bowl name is necessary? Are there a lot of other services that Meineke offers that I might get it confused with? Like they want to be clear, this is the Meineke Car Care Bowl, not the Meineke Mani-Pedi Bowl or the Meineke SAT Prep Bowl.

2) I think the Brut Sun Bowl is going to be fun -- Stanford vs. Oklahoma. An interesting matchup and a chance for people to see whether the Pac-10 is really good. Also a good game for those of us who don't miss being part of the Big East? The Sugar Bowl. I seriously can't imagine how much fun Florida is going to have dismantling everything that Cincinnati has prided itself on. It will be just the dressing down that Brian Kelly needs before he heads to Notre Dame, where he'll probably enjoy many dressings down in the 2010 season.

3) Did anyone know that Temple still had a football team? I could have sworn they left Div I-A a few years ago.

4) Does it bother anyone else that my team has to play the day after Christmas but the mighty Troy and Central Michigan teams get a January bowl? I mean, yes, it's the GMAC bowl (I honestly don't even know what that stands for and will not be bothering to look it up), but still. I thought the whole point was to put the most important bowls at the end. And that? Is not important.

Anyway, that's all I've got in me tonight.

2009-10 College Football Bowl Schedule

New Mexico Fresno State vs. Wyoming	Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium	Dec. 19 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
St. Petersburg UCF vs. Rutgers	St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field	Dec. 19 8 p.m.	ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Southern Miss vs. Middle Tennessee	New Orleans Louisiana Superdome	Dec. 20 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
MAACO Las Vegas Oregon State vs. BYU	Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium	Dec. 22 8 p.m.	ESPN
S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Utah vs. Cal	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 23 8 p.m.	ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii Nevada vs. SMU	Honolulu Aloha Stadium	Dec. 24 8 p.m.	ESPN
Little Caesars Marshall vs. Ohio	Detroit Ford Field	Dec. 26 1 p.m.	ESPN
Meineke Car Care Pitt vs. North Carolina	Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium	Dec. 26 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
Emerald Boston College vs. USC	San Francisco AT&T Park	Dec. 26 8 p.m.	ESPN
Gaylord Hotels Music City Kentucky vs. Clemson	Nashville, Tenn. LP Field	Dec. 27 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
AdvoCare V100 Independence Texas A&M vs. Georgia	Shreveport, La. Independence Stadium	Dec. 28 5 p.m.	ESPN2
EagleBank Army or UCLA vs. Temple	Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium	Dec. 29 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
Champs Sports Miami vs. Wisconsin	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Dec. 29 8 p.m.	ESPN
Roady's Humanitarian Bowling Green vs. Idaho	Boise, Idaho Bronco Stadium	Dec. 30 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
Pacific Life Holiday Arizona vs. Nebraska	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 30 8 p.m.	ESPN
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Houston vs. Air Force	Fort Worth, Texas Amon G. Carter Stadium	Dec. 31 Noon	ESPN
Brut Sun Oklahoma vs. Stanford	El Paso, Texas Sun Bowl	Dec. 31 2 p.m.	CBS
Texas Navy vs. Missouri	Houston Reliant Stadium	Dec. 31 3:30 p.m.	ESPN
Insight Minnesota vs. Iowa State	Tempe, Ariz. Sun Devil Stadium	Dec. 31 6 p.m.	NFL Network
Chick-fil-A Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee	Atlanta Georgia Dome	Dec. 31 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
Outback Northwestern vs. Auburn	Tampa, Fla. Raymond James Stadium	Jan. 1 11 a.m.	ESPN
Capital One Penn State vs. LSU	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ABC
Konica Minolta Gator West Virginia vs. Florida State	Jacksonville, Fla. Municipal Stadium	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	CBS
Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi Ohio State vs. Oregon	Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl	Jan. 1 4:30 p.m.	ABC
Allstate Sugar Florida vs. Cincinnati	New Orleans Louisiana Superdome	Jan. 1 8:30 p.m.	FOX
International South Florida vs. Northern Illinois	Toronto, Canada Rogers Centre	Jan. 2 Noon	ESPN2
Papajohns.com South Carolina vs. UConn	Birmingham, Ala. Legion Field	Jan. 2 2 p.m.	ESPN
AT&T Cotton Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss	Arlington, Texas Cowboys Stadium	Jan. 2 2 p.m.	FOX
AutoZone Liberty Arkansas vs. East Carolina	Memphis, Tenn. Liberty Bowl	Jan. 2 5:30 p.m.	ESPN
Valero Alamo Michigan State vs. Texas Tech	San Antonio Alamodome	Jan. 2 9 p.m.	ESPN
Tostitos Fiesta Boise State vs. TCU	Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium	Jan. 4 8 p.m.	FOX
FedEx Orange Iowa vs. Georgia Tech	Miami Land Shark Stadium	Jan. 5 8 p.m.	FOX
GMAC Central Michigan vs. Troy	Mobile, Ala. Ladd-Peebles Stadium	Jan. 6 7 p.m.	ESPN
Citi BCS National Championship Game Texas vs. Alabama	Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl	Jan. 7 8 p.m.	ABC