It’s Friday, and college football’s bowl season is finally here. Why the sport insists on having a nearly two-week break between the end of the regular season and bowl season, I’ll never know, but here we are with two bowl games for you to watch at work and as a bonus, two lower-division playoff games tonight.
Hometown Lenders Bahamas Bowl: Miami (Ohio) vs. UAB (10:30 AM CT, ESPN): Bowl season gets underway at 10:30 AM in the Bahamas with a pair of 6-6 G5 teams squaring off, and really, I can think of no better argument against the way ESPN handles bowl season than the fact that two 6-6 G5 teams get a trip to the Bahamas while the SEC’s bowl rotation consists of Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Houston, Nashville, Memphis, and Birmingham.