Do you have your holiday shopping done? Have you already seen The Last Jedi? If you have a free afternoon and/or evening, college football’s bowl season starts today.
With only five options on deck today, I’m simply going to give you the slate, rather than pick certain selections out.
Early (12:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Eastern):
Troy vs. North Texas (1:00 p.m., ESPN/WatchESPN): The first contest of the 2017-18 bowl season features the Mean Green from Conference USA (who Florida defeated at home in 2016 in a shutout game mostly memorable for Luke Del Rio being injured) and the Sun Belt’s Troy in the New Orleans Bowl.