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Today opens the bowl season — 34 scheduled games plus a college football playoff. For an opening weekend, the matchups are fairly strong too.
Here’s what’s on-tap, why to watch them, and who we give the nod too.
New Orleans
9 p.m. (ESPN)
App. State -7.0 (10-2) vs. MTSU (8-5)
A conference winner and a conference runner-up should be a practical toss-up, but the Mountaineers are just such a much better team than the Blue Raiders. MTSU rebounded from a slow start to go on bit of a tear, highlighted by clobbering UAB (then lost two weeks ago on the CUSACG.