Bowl season is upon us.You probably have many questions.We’re here to help, with the absolute least you need to know about each and every bowl game.College football’s draw is in its anthropology, and what demands examination more than an offshore postseason contest sponsored by a drive-thru fried chicken chain with no restaurants inside the host country’s borders, or the 10th year of a football game named for a poisonous houseplant?Warning: This fact sheet is processed in a facility that may contain non-facts.(Saturday, December 20, 11 a.m., ESPN) The absolute least: The New Orleans Bowl has latched its jaws onto Earliest Start Time of the 2014-15 postseason honors, edging out the “traditional” leadoff New Mexico Bowl by nearly three and a half hours.There’s a Saints game in the Superdome the next day, and it’s nice that the worker bees who have to flip that setting overnight will have more time, but woooof: For those of you scoring at home, that’s a 10 a.m.Between the time change for Nevada fans and players and what we know of Ragin’ Cajuns fans, here’s a modest proposal: Everybody stay up Friday night.

(Saturday, December 20, 2:20 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Now that it’s no longer in the first slot, what standout characteristics does the New Mexico Bowl have going for it?ethereum roundBowl organizers would probably say the awards: The winning team’s trophy is handmade pottery and the MVPs are given leather shields, all handcrafted by local artists.bitcoin pizza portalWe would point out our favorite piece of bowl lore: the first time a postseason game was played in Albuquerque, a snowstorm hit two days prior, and they had to bring in helicopters to dry off the fields and spray-paint the grass green.ethereum news april 14Also worth noting: This is UTEP’s first postseason appearance since 2010, and a win would be the Miners’ first bowl victory since the 1967 Sun Bowl.bitcoin get network hashrate

(Saturday, December 20, 3:30 p.m., ABC) The absolute least: First, a now annual warning that bears repeating: Hold up, is a gentlemen’s club sponsoring a bowl game?ethereal plane wikiIt’s not that much of a Las Vegas Bowl.bitcoin math miningRoyal Purple manufactures “synthetic oil and lubricants,” for vehicles, not people.bitcoin blackberry walletOther than that, the Vegas Bowl is pretty self-recommending.kevin lee bitcoinIt is your thing, or it is not.bitcoin asic cardIt’s also the game where coaches get photographed with showgirls, and the one that forces us to wonder whether Southwest lets those headdresses onboard as carry-on baggage: The @LasVegasBowl stopped by to extend us an official invite.

Vegas here we come!#/EFJvT47uhq — Utah Football (@Utah_Football) December 11, 2014 (Saturday, December 20, 5:45 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Enthusiasts of college football’s only chive-bedecked bowl game need to bookmark two vital web destinations.The first is the Idaho Potato Commission’s Dr. Potato Blog, which is always updated when we check it every December, bless their hearts, and which spans the vast breadth of human interest in the noble potato, from how to make Waffle House hash browns at home to how to screw up baking a potato (WOE BETIDE YOU, NONBELIEVERS WHO TREAT ALL RUSSETS THE SAME).The other is the site’s potato recipe page, which faithfully churns out places to put potatoes that you might not have otherwise considered (inside a piece of bacon?In a deviled egg?), and which finally tacked “gluten free” onto the potato-crusted pizza recipe it’s featured for years.Finally, Western Michigan is in this game, so make sure you brush up on all of P.J.

(Saturday, December 20, 9:15 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: NEW BOWL, Y’ALL!This one’s high on the acceptability scale, both because it’s regionally specific (the game’s in Montgomery; the camellia is Alabama’s state flower), and because the Raycom attachment leaves us with a tiny shred of flickering hope that this game will someday be called by three guys named Dave.Also, let it not pass without note that this is South Alabama’s first bowl game, a mighty feat for a program that became a full FBS member only last year.(Monday, December 22, 2 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: ’NOTHER NEW BOWL!Since this game doesn’t yet exist, there’s not too much to know, unless you want to talk about comparing the relative merits of the art deco logo and Starship Troopers font on the game’s website.Instead, consider spending the time between now and kickoff in rapt contemplation of the thought of BYU and Memphis fans interacting in Miami.(Tuesday, December 23, 6 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: STOP MAKING NEW BOWLS.

WE HAVE ENOUGH BOWLS.These squads won their leagues, but have to spend part of Christmas break playing in FAU’s stadium, which we can’t even call Owlcatraz anymore.(Tuesday, December 23, 9:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: This should be a corker of a crowd, with the Aztecs playing in their own stadium and the town’s military presence.And since we last did this fact sheet a year ago, we have learned a thing!“Poinsettia plants are less toxic than once believed,” says the Mayo Clinic’s blog.Even the ASPCA calls poinsettias “generally overrated in toxicity.” Is the Poinsettia Bowl’s honorary title of “Most Dangerous Bowl Game for Pets” in peril?(Wednesday, December 24, noon, ESPN) The absolute least: And now, a guest appearance from colleague Matt Hinton, who called this latest unnecessary newcomer the most corrupt game of the postseason, which is really, really, reaaaaally saying something!The Bahamas Bowl is a brand-new contest that will pit a 7-5 also-ran from the MAC (Central Michigan) against a 7-5 also-ran from Conference USA (Western Kentucky) in Nassau, in a game sponsored by a Southern fried chicken chain (Popeyes) that doesn’t operate a franchise in the Bahamas.

How could such a felicitous arrangement be anything but on the up and up?(Wednesday, December 24, 8 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: The official bowl of early-onset dadlife, the Hawaii bowl gifts participating players with sunglasses, swim trunks, a towel, and what we have to assume is an aggressively floral shirt.(Friday, December 26, 1 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Formerly known best as “the bowl game played in the Cotton Bowl (the stadium) that isn’t the Cotton Bowl (the game),” the Z-Hod is now distinguished as one of several bowls advancing the hegemony of Big Fried Chicken while America’s last pizza bowl slips quietly away.And DID YOU KNOW: Both FBS football teams that lost to Purdue this season made the postseason?(Friday, December 26, 4:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: The aforementioned Last Pizza Bowl, the erstwhile Little Caesars, is now sponsored by a tire service center chain.What a world, what a world.Vindicating factor: The Detroit-based game has partnered with Detroit-based Fathead to give each player a custom Fathead of himself.

If there’s a Football Jesus in heaven, there’s an enterprising lineman out there submitting a shot of himself belly-flopping into a pool, at the moment of impact, for his wall decal pose.(Friday, December 26, 8 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: This is the game that replaced the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, hastening the demise of our annual “spot the fake menu item” Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl quiz.As such, we do not recognize its existence, and thank you for understanding.(Saturday, December 27, 1 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: As near as we can tell, this is the absolute only bowl game to both (a) benefit the USO, and (b) sponsor its own official pub crawl.There’s something to be said for knowing your audience, although we don’t see Rails on any of those lists.Anyway, enjoy crawling to the Military Bowl.That stamp seems pretty serious about making you.@HollyAnderson I actually think getting drunk and crawling would be a better way to move the ball than Virginia Tech's offense.

— Michael Baumann (@MJ_Baumann) December 18, 2014 (Saturday, December 27, 2 p.m., CBS) The absolute least: Helen of Troy no longer holds title sponsorship rights, but please rest assured that the players do still take home hair dryers.Somebody sent us one like five years ago, as a joke, but it’s a great hair dryer.)(Saturday, December 27, 3:30 p.m., ABC) about his days as a college quarterback.Back then, he was just a guy who was better than teammate Terry Bradshaw, but he gave up the game because it interfered with duck-hunting season.In retrospect, this sponsorship was probably inevitable.(Saturday, December 27, 4:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Noted college football mecca New York City hosts a bowl game in noted college football palace Yankee Stadium, this year for the first time without either New York’s College Football Team Syracuse or New York’s College Football Team Rutgers.(New York’s College Football Team Buffalo has yet to put in an appearance.)

(Saturday, December 27, 8 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: [DANCE BREAK.] Pacific Life no longer sponsors the Holiday Bowl.The first year of the Holiday Bowl without the Pacific Life sponsorship, and accompanying excuses to play the Whale Tail Fight Song for four hours, was 2010.The best film that hit theaters in 2010, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was The King’s Speech, so it was a great year for tragedies all around.Still, you will want to follow the game’s Twitter feed this postseason for adorable photographs of players posing with dangerous/cuddly animals at the San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld.(Monday, December 29, 2 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: SCARY GOOD MATCHUP FOR THE LIBERTY BOWL SIREN, with two high-octane offenses headed by two former colleagues: .@TonyCaridi I am not worried, I taught @JakeSpavital all of his signals — Dana Holgorsen (@Holgorsendana) December 9, 2014 .@Holgorsendana Game On, Old Sport./8MkzLO1iHX — Jake Spavital (@JakeSpavital) December 9, 2014 .@/YinnkCVJgZ — Dana Holgorsen (@Holgorsendana) December 9, 2014 (Monday, December 29, 5:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: This game has a tangled history that we’ll get to in just a few paragraphs; separate it from its peers in the corridors of your mind with the knowledge that (a) this bowl’s organizers are occasionally menaced by bears, and (b) Florida Citrus Sports run the only year-round must-follow Twitter accounts for their games, including: That's the price for 22 DVDs of Mr.

RT @Cody_Stoots: what's up with the $447 Best Buy gift card number?Is there a hidden message?— RussellAthleticBowl (@RussellAthBowl) December 8, 2014 (Monday, December 29, 9 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: ARKANSAS-TEXAS BACK, in the belt-bucklin’est game this side of the Mississip.Pay careful attention to social media dispatches from this game as well; this is the game with the Rodeo Bowl, and you simply can’t miss out.Yes, as in, the players do the rodeoing.(Tuesday, December 30, 3 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: 2007 Sugar Bowl rematch!And it looks to be as good of a football matchup in 2014 as Nashville is a music town in 2014!A modest proposal: Rather than play Everett Golson, Malik Zaire, Anthony Jennings, and Brandon Harris all in one game?JaMarcus Russell, all-time quarterback.(Tuesday, December 30, 6:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Off the field, the Belk Bowl provides players with a shopping spree to (where belking else?)Belk, putting it neck and neck with the Hawaii Bowl in early-onset dadlife enabling.

A playoff between the floral shirts of the West and the no-iron khakis of the East would instantly age all participants and onlookers to a permanent chronological state of 47 years old.On the field, Mark Richt is going to approach former Bulldogs and current Cardinals defensive coordinator Todd Grantham at midfield before this game, and they’re going to shake hands, and Grantham is going to put just a little too much aggressive squeeze into his side of things, and Richt is going to serenely ignore it and ask how Grantham’s family is doing, and he’s going to mean it, and that’s going to make Grantham soooooo much madder.(Tuesday, December 30, 10 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: DOES THE HEGEMONY OF THE AMERICAN CHICKEN-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX KNOW NO BOUNDS??Good news: This game is no longer played on a football field stuffed into a baseball stadium, a concept we’ve never liked.Bad news: It’s being held at the 49ers’ new digs, home of the Pac-12 championship and a building with all the charm of a shelf of irregular jeans: Congratulations to the @pac12 for playing their championship game in a giant shiny roofless Old Navy outlet store — SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) December 6, 2014 (Wednesday, December 31, 12:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: A perennial front-runner in the “wacky bowl events” arena, the Peach hosts an annual milkshake-making contest between its two teams.

(Wednesday, December 31, 4 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: We’re happy for the playoff-bound Ducks, but it just won’t be the Fiesta without this guy: Making the Fiesta Bowl still worth it: Boise State returning to the site of so much previous glory; the chance for one more look this year at Nagurski winner Scooby Wright III; and the fact that this bowl comes with its own space race.(Wednesday, December 31, 8 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: This is the Capital One Orange Bowl, which is no longer played in the now-nonexistent stadium the Orange Bowl, and which is not to be confused with the former Capital One Bowl, which was itself formerly the Citrus Bowl and before that the Tangerine Bowl, which was not the Tangerine Bowl that’s now the Russell Athletic Bowl, both of which are now played in the Citrus Bowl, the stadium, though the Orange Bowl is not.(Thursday, January 1, noon, ESPN2) The absolute least: The new Outback Bowl Trophy is NOT shaped like a crystalline Bloomin’ Onion; do we have to do everything for y’all?

Honor the noble appetizer’s winning streak, at least.(Thursday, January 1, 12:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: While we’re talking about games no longer played in their titular stadiums, here’s the Cotton Bowl, which no longer takes place in the Cotton Bowl, and which has nothing “classic” about it.What it does have is an excellent matchup of teams with contrasting styles, and the suffering that stems from their trying to adjust to it: Michigan St. center Jack Allen on mimicking the pace of Baylor's offense in practice: "Being fat, it's not fun."— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) December 16, 2014 (Thursday, January 1, 1 p.m., ABC) The absolute least: The other Tangerine Bowl, the one that was just the Tangerine Bowl for a couple years?This isn’t associated with the former Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, which is now the Cactus Bowl, which we will get to in a minute, and which itself is not the all-star Cactus Bowl, but its actual own bowl game, and the other half of the Florida Citrus Sports must-follow tandem: Underrated part of hosting @GopherFootball: ample opportunities to naturally work "Bemidji" into conversation.

/a58EfQXBLT — BWW Citrus Bowl (@BWWCitrusBowl) December 18, 2014 (Thursday, January 1, 5 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: This is … the Rose Bowl?This is probably the only game we can say this about, always?You have to buy tickets to watch the floats being decorated, for fuck’s sake.Either you already know about the Rose Bowl or you meant to click on a hockey link and wound up here instead, in which case, thank you for reading this far.(Thursday, January 1, 8:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: As a semifinal, this one sells itself.It’s Alabama and it’s Ohio State; it’s a Nick Saban–Urban Meyer rematch; it’s the site of the Crimson Tide’s last postseason humiliation; and it’s a chance for the Big Ten, under a former SEC head coach, to knock the SEC out of the national championship race.But let’s not kid ourselves about what we’re here to see: (Friday, January 2, Noon, ESPN) The absolute least: INTERIM COACH FIIIIIIGHT!!!(Friday, January 2, 3:20, ESPN) The absolute least: Finally, a discernible Florida-based January bowl game that has never been associated with any sort of citrus fruit.

It did, however, used to be sponsored by Outback, but instead of falling back down that rabbit hole (which we’ll do again in a minute anyway), let’s revisit the former Gator Bowl’s most famous moment: (Friday, January 2, 6:45 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Another SeaWorld-sponsored football game that gives elite athletes the opportunity to interact with such illustrious native San Antonians as the Pacific walrus.(Friday, January 2, 10:15 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: We can’t even find the mental RAM to be despondent that this former pizza bowl (Domino’s) has never found another pizza-based title sponsor to call its own, not when TicketCity has decamped from the Heart of Dallas Bowl to add another link in the never-ending sponsorship exasperation hootenanny chain.Sing along if you know the tune: This is the TicketCity Cactus Bowl, which is not the TicketCity Bowl, which is also not the all-star Cactus Bowl, but is in fact the former Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, while of course the current Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl is the Citrus Bowl, and we are not setting one more foot in that winter fruit web of lies.

Are we just out of words?Is that what’s happening?In a Too Many Cooks–type scenario, this would be about when the blood started hitting the camera lens.(Saturday, January 3, noon, ESPN) Your absolute least: Somehow, this game’s not featuring Pitt again this year, though the Panthers will be bolstering their rich tradition of playing bowl games under an interim coach.(Sunday, January 4, 9 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: Chronologically, this is the last college football you can consume before the national championship game.You will eat it and you will like it.Click here to see what happens next.(Monday, January 12, 8:30 p.m., ESPN) The absolute least: The teams haven’t even been determined yet, and there’s little to say about the game itself, set as it is within the sterile confines of the Jerry Dome, but one thing is certain: We’ve finally worked up a postseason college football event with a more unwieldy name than “San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.”