2014 Camellia Bowl results: Bowling Green out-funs South Alabama

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Only once in its previous 10 games had Colorado State averaged under 6.1 yards per play. The Rams averaged 10.3 against Wyoming, 9.3 against Tulsa, 8.6 against New Mexico, 8.2 against Hawaii, and 6.1 against a good Air Force defense.

If you’re the sort of person who watched only one bowl game on Saturday, you probably didn’t pick the Camellia Bowl. The Camellia Bowl was the one to pick. Bowling Green won, 33-28, by the way.

A very brief rundown of just the last seven minutes:

Of course, he kept coaching, because this is a bowl game and noses can be fixed later!

The first full day of bowl games concludes with the Camellia Bowl on ESPN. It’s one of the new bowls on the slate this season, and it matches up Bowling Green and South Alabama this year.

In just its third season of FBS play, South Alabama is going bowling. Bowling Green, on the other hand, is making its third straight bowl game. The Falcons enter this game at 7-6 fresh off a 51-17 thrashing at the hands of Northern Illinois in the MAC Championship.

The bowl season begins as an undercard should: with figures from lower weight classes tasting the glare of the spotlight. Only one power team (Utah) plays before next Friday, but there are great players and tight matchups to keep us entertained. You have reasons to watch the early bowls beyond “it’s college football, and you’ll be starving for it soon.”

1. Remember Broadway and Fajardo?

The Raycom Media Camellia Bowl is one of the new bowls on the slate this season, though it’s not a new bowl game entirely.

From 1961 to 1975, and then once more in 1980, the Camellia Bowl was played in Sacramento, Calif., and hosted three NAIA and Division II championship games. The last time the game was played, in 1980, Boise State won a thriller over Eastern Kentucky, 31-29, as the Broncos became Division I-AA champs. With a handful of new bowl games needed with the new College Football Playoff beginning, officials decided to bring back the Camellia Bowl, even with a new location in Alabama.