Somebody told me that the bowl season has begun in college football. Actually, doesn't the bowl season start about ten minutes after the regular season now?

I can't think of anything less interesting than the college bowl season, especially the early part of it when all the games are named after gardening implements and dot.coms I've never heard of and would only visit if they promised naked pictures of Elisha Cuthbert. Yesterday, for example, you had the Meineke Car Care Bowl, which pitted Wake Forest against UConn. I might've watched that game had there been a free tire-rotation in it for me. Or had it been a sweet-sixteen match-up in the NCAA basketball tournament (sorry, but UConn and Wake Forest have no business playing in a bowl game).

Wake Forest won that game by the way - and if you're a fan of Wake Forest, you may possibly care. Then last night, Penn State was matched up with Texas A&M in the Valero Alamo Bowl - at the same time the Giants-Pats game was running on about fifty channels. I'm sure Aggies and Nittany Lions diehards were tuned to that one, but no one else was. Penn State won it by the way, gaining revenge on behalf of their coach Joe Paterno who was wished dead by a male A&M cheerleader during a pep rally (the cheerleader is lucky Joe Pa didn't find him and beat the hell out of him).

I could go on slamming these games and making snarky comments, but really, what would be the point? What gratification would I receive from slamming the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl in which Texas beat Arizona State? A game most people will remember as the one where Mack Brown's stepson had a brain-fart and tried to pick up a live ball as it was bouncing toward the sideline (the game shall forever be known as the Idiot Stepson Game, and will not be quite as famous as the Cal-Stanford Band Game or the Flutie Hail-Mary Game, mostly because Idiot Stepson's blunder had no effect on the outcome)?

Better just to ignore these early bowl season match-ups, and prepare myself for the really big games coming up on New Year's Day and after. Like the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl, which pits traditional college football powerhouse Texas Tech against their arch-rivals Virginia. Yeah. Gotta make sure to stock up on salsa and chips for that one.