The Cougars will play in the Sun Bowl the day after Christmas, but first there will be bowl gifts. Lots of them.
'Tis the season for bowl games, meaning your Washington State Cougars and 79 other programs who did or did not win at least six games have earned extra practices to develop their young guys, added a nice little recruiting pitch to their resumés and get to play a celebration game of sorts in a far-away oasis, such as El Paso, Texas.
Those are fun things from a football perspective, but for the players, the biggest perk of all is the bowl game gifts they'll each receive.