These bowl game names are getting confusing

On Jan. 6, this Friday, the Arkansas Razorbacks football team will meet the Kansas State Wildcats in the Cotton Bowl.  It’s a big game for the state of Arkansas, and we’re hoping the Razorbacks come out with a big win.

It’s only the second time in the Bowl Championship Series era that a bowl that isn’t part of the BCS has teams with better BCS rankings than teams in a BCS bowl.  So, the Cotton Bowl isn’t a BCS bowl?  I thought the Cotton Bowl was a big deal.

There sure are a lot of bowls to keep up with

I don’t completely understand the bowl system.  I also don’t understand why there are so many bowls these days.  When I was a kid, you had your Rose Bowl, your Orange Bowl, your Cotton Bowl, your Gator Bowl and a few others.

Now there are all kinds of bowls, and a lot of them have weird names.  The Meineke Car Care Bowl?

???

Bowls used to honor roses, oranges, cotton and alligators - things that mean something to America.  Now we have a bowl that honors a car care company.

Or what about the Chic-fil-A Bowl.  That sounds like a menu item.  I can just see a player in that bowl this year when he’s talking to his grandson 50 years from now.  He’ll go, “Sonny, when I was a young man, I had the proud honor to represent my school’s football team in the Chic-fil-A Bowl,” and the kid’s going to be like, “Huh?”

At least our Razorbacks got into a long-time traditional bowl, the Cotton Bowl.  It wouldn’t be the same rooting and  cheering for them if they were playing in the Acme Porta-Potty Bowl.

Go Razorbacks!  (We’d cheer no matter what bowl they were in.)

Nick & Ellie Glidewell