Call it the Christmas gift of the college football season.
Cynics tend to decry the bowl season, and say that many of the games are useless matchups designed to create artificial interest in the sport, but true college football fans know that a majority of the games involve interesting/compelling games that are worth watching.
The biggest and most important of those involve the four teams in the College Football Playoffs. Top-ranked Alabama faces fourth-ranked Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl and second-ranked Clemson meets No. 3 Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl.
However, those are not the only important games.