With the national championship game between No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson less than a week away, everybody needed to whet their appetites with some college football.
Thankfully, the latter stages of bowl season provided us college football junkies with some excellent showdowns.
The Fiesta Bowl between LSU and Central Florida was a barnburning delight, while Kentucky and Penn State got after each other in a Citrus Bowl defensive slugfest. Even the Outback Bowl between Iowa and Mississippi State could have gone either way. The Rose Bowl was lopsided early but became a dandy.
Those games came on the heels of Florida's domination of Michigan on Saturday to kick off the big games outside of the College Football Playoff.