Welcome to a bowl season like no other.
For the first time, there are 40 games (excluding the national championship).For the first time, there is something called the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl.And for the first time, all three Bay Area teams are involved.Their games are scattered across the bowl calendar and across the country, with San Jose State on the field Saturday in the Cure Bowl followed by Cal in the Armed Forces Bowl and then Stanford in the Rose Bowl.On the home front, the Foster Farms Bowl, in its second year at Levi's Stadium, will match UCLA against Nebraska.