Vanderbilt is the SEC’s only team not selected to a bowl game. Ah, well. Vanderbilt is more of a bowling school than a bowl-game school anyway.
Compelling matchups abound as a record 13 league teams will participate in postseason games.
Fans annually gripe that there are too many bowls. Apparently, some fans find the thought of a 6-6 bowl qualifier so offensive they’d rather bicker with family members about politics or watch Hallmark Christmas movies that feature a familiar cast of actors, a PG-rated love story and a hokey plot involving a small-town mini-crisis that threatens to derail Christmas.