Let's go bowling!

 The College Football Playoff people announced their College Football Playoff lineup yesterday, and it was pretty much what everyone thought it would be.  It's Alabama vs. Cincinnati and Michigan vs. Georgia, and the only upset is the committee didn't find a way to screw the Bearcats so it could get Notre Dame in there.

Notre Dame instead will play Oklahoma State in the Consolation, er, Fiesta Bowl. So it's all good. 

Know what else is all good?

The holiday bowl schedule has been released! 

There are 42 of these things now, which is pretty hilarious if you think about it, and more evidence that the times are indeed changing, no matter how much we shake our bony fists and splutter. Remember when the only Mid-American Conference school to go bowling was the conference champ, and it played in the lame-o Tangerine Bowl?

Well, no more!

This year there are eight MAC schools in bowls, including the entire MAC West. Even the Blob's alma mater, Ball State, is in a bowl, proudly lugging its 6-6 record with it. The Cardinals will play Georgia State in the TaxAct Camellia Bowl on Christmas Day, so don't forget to tune in. What else have you got to do on Christmas Day?

Until then, let's contemplate some of the other bowls, which have even more ridiculous corporate names than ever. There's the LendingTree Bowl and the PUBG Mobile New Mexico Bowl and the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl. You've got your Tailgreeter Cure Bowl and your Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl and your Frisco Football Classic, which apparently are not the same thing.

There's an EasyPost Hawai'i Bowl. A Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl AND a Military Bowl Presented By Peraton. A Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, a Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl and a SERVPRO First Responder Bowl.

There's even a Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, which is not nearly as cool as the greatest bowl name of all time, the Poulan Weed Eater Independence Bowl.

Me?

Well, I have always wondered what a bowlful of first responders would look like. So the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl is for me.

That one goes off in Dallas at 3:15 p.m. on December 28, and pits Air Force against Louisville. I can't wait.

The rest of you?

You'll just have to make do with the Wasabi Fenway Bowl. Sorry.