It’s been, well, about as good as bowl season as we deserved:
Multiple bowl games—from the Pinstripe Bowl to the Independence Bowl—canceled
Army was left out of games entirely (at first; they’re now in the Liberty Bowl) thanks to the SEC force-filling teams like 2-8 South Carolina into the Gasparilla Bowl just to prove a point that they #LetThemPlay
Just three of the first nine games have been a one-score affair
Opt-outs even among the
good games—thinking here of Jaret Patterson of Buffalo and Brenden Knox of Marshall—have led to lower levels of quality than you’d expect even out of the illustrious Camellia Bowl or LendingTree Bowl