Tonight, the South Florida Bulls and the Marshall Thundering Herd will face off in the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl, one of the most-named bowl games in this year’s rotation (only behind, in our opinion, the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl and the Makers Wanted Elk Grove Bahamas Bowl).
While many will focus on the silliness of the name, and fewer will focus on the actual matchup between two good-but-not-great Group of Five teams, I want to take a moment to lament what we have lost.
This year’s Gasparilla Bowl will take place in Raymond James Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.