College football bowl thread: Pop-Tarts Muzik

Here is the 2024-25 college football bowl schedule (excluding those affiliated with the CFP). All times Central. Rankings are from the final College Football Playofffs rankings.

Dec. 14
Celebration: Jackson State vs. South Carolina State 11 am ABC
Veterans (Montgomery, Ala.): South Alabama vs. Western Michigan 8 pm ESPN

Dec. 17
Frisco: No. 25 Memphis vs. West Virginia 8 pm ESPN

Dec. 18
Boca Raton: James Madison vs. Western Kentucky 4:30 pm ESPN
LA: California vs. No. 24 UNLV 8 pm ESPN

Dec. 19
New Orleans: Georgia Southern vs. Sam Houston 6 pm ESPN2

Dec. 20
Cure: Jacksonville State vs. Ohio 11 am ESPN
Gasparilla: Florida vs. Tulane 2:30 pm ESPN

Dec. 23
Myrtle Beach: UTSA at Coastal Carolina 10 am ESPN
Potato: Fresno State vs. Northern Illinois 1:30 pm ESPN

Dec. 24
Hawaii: South Florida vs. San Jose State 7 pm ESPN

Dec. 26
Game Above (Detroit): Pittsburgh vs. Toledo 1 pm ESPN
Rate (Phoenix): Kansas State vs. Rutgers 4:30 pm ESPN
68 Ventures (Mobile, Ala.): Arkansas State vs. Bowling Green 8 pm ESPN

Dec. 27
Armed Forces: Navy vs. Oklahoma 11 am ESPN
Birmingham: Georgia Tech vs. Vanderbilt 2:30 pm ESPN
Liberty: Arkansas vs. Texas Tech 6 pm ESPN
Holiday: No. 21 Syracuse vs. Washington State 7 pm Fox
Las Vegas: Texas A&M vs. USC 9:30 pm ESPN

Dec. 28
Fenway: North Carolina vs. Connecticut 10 am ESPN
Pinstripe: Boston College vs. Nebraska 11 am ABC
New Mexico: Louisiana vs. TCU 1:15 pm ESPN
Pop-Tarts (Orlando): No. 18 Iowa State vs. No. 13 Miami (Fla.) 2:30 pm ABC
Arizona: Colorado State vs. Miami (Ohio) 3:30 pm CW
Military: East Carolina vs. North Carolina State 4:45 pm ESPN
Alamo: No. 17 BYU vs. No. 23 Colorado 6:30 pm ABC
Independence: No. 22 Army vs. Marshall 8:15 pm ESPN

Dec. 30
Music City: Iowa vs. No. 19 Missouri 1.30 pm ESPN

Dec. 31
ReliaQuest (Tampa): No. 11 Alabama vs. Michigan 11 am ESPN
Sun: Louisville vs. Washington 1 pm CBS
Citrus: No. 20 Illinois vs. No. 15 South Carolina 2 pm ABC
Texas: Baylor vs. LSU 2:30 pm ESPN

Jan. 2
Gator: Duke vs. No. 14 Ole Miss 6:30 pm ESPN

Jan. 3
First Responder (Dallas): North Texas vs. Texas State 3 pm ESPN
Mayo (Charlotte): Minnesota vs. Virginia Tech 6:30 pm ESPN

Jan. 4
Bahamas: Buffalo vs. Liberty 10 am ESPN2

 

Mizzou's bowl is just six to seven hours away. No idea what the tickets would cost, and hotel rates there are outrageous, so I doubt I'll go. But I'd like to.

 

Pop Tart swag or Mayo swag? Hmmmmmmm….

 

Sort of related, but me and a buddy took the Yankee Stadium tour on Thursday just to kill some time waiting for that night's show, and they still had the football field from Notre Dame-Army since they'd be hosting the Pinstripe Bowl after. I had always assumed that the football sightlines would be awful in a baseball stadium, but other than getting a seat directly behind a foul pole, they weren't bad at all.

 

Somebody in the Red Sox brain trust is seething that the Pinstripe Bow gets to start an hour later and be on ABC instead of basic cable.

 

After last year's 63-3 Orange Bowl debacle when Florida State essentially opted out against Georgia is that future contracts between bowls and conferences will include a provision that part of payouts to the schools will instead go to the players in order to ensure their participation.

Virtually every bowl game is sponsored. The title sponsor could just pay out part of the fee to the player as NIL.

 

Also this weekend, for us fans of option and service academy football:

Army vs. Navy, noon PST, in Baltimore (CBS)

Both teams are having a good season, so there might be more offense than usual.

 

With those offenses (which I find entertaining), each team should wear tearaway jerseys.

 

It’s a consolation prize for losing Soto.

 

I want to know what's in the swag bags for the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl.

 

Wicked pissah. ... Why all the fuss?

 

Wonder if that was intentional to schedule them at roughly the same time, part of the contracts, or just the way things worked out.