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How can there be too many bowl games when you can sing all their names in 51 seconds?

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Go ahead and delete the files in your brain that contain the audio of someone singing every United States state’s name. You have to make room for this instead, every current bowl’s name being sung.

We have an *extremely* catchy, 51-second song to help you remember all 40 bowl games, from the New Mexico to the Cotton!

Posted by SB Nation College Football on Tuesday, December 22, 2015

This will surely change about nine seconds after bowl season ends, when 16 games get added and 11 change sponsors and one gets raided by the feds, so tune in now.

Leaving your team before your bowl to focus on the NFL Draft? That’s what’s popping now? UCLA loses an offensive lineman to the pros with a game still to go.

Mercy. Pete Lembo, former 10-game winner at Ball State, is the second MAC head coach in a year to leave for an assistant job elsewhere, and this is a mere special teams gig (with assistant head coach title, granted). That brought us to 25 teams changing head coaches this year, but that’s not all, folks.

Things went better for the MAC on the field, where Toledo beat No. 24 Temple in the top mid-major showcase after this dubious onside kick recovery and Akron won the first bowl in school history, powered by this 69-yard punt.

The Potato Bowl served its purpose as always: Medium-quality, microwaved sports in front of dozens of people and one giant potato boss who is more scary than lovable, with a side of disturbing potato ads.

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Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey probably should’ve won the Heisman, but he’s the AP’s player of the year and will enter 2016 as the Heisman favorite anyway.

Dennis Franchione, former head coach of your school and others, is retiring from Texas State, bringing us to 26 teams changing head coaches this year.

The latest troubling Nkemdiche situation: Denzel was hospitalized again. Few details are available.

Houston fans haven’t been this mad since the Geto Boys broke up, but Bill Connelly’s gone and said Western Kentucky might’ve been the country’s top mid-major this year.

Go ahead and try to find a bad review of Michigan’s new defensive coordinator hire, besides some Ohio State fan.

The relevant mayors for Northwestern and Tennessee are each betting local whiskey on the Outback Bowl, and our power rankings of the chosen whiskeys astounded me.

The Fiesta Bowl is going to be tremendous, and the keys to victory are quite straightforward.

’Twas the night before Christmas, the Michigan State-beats-Michigan-with-holy-shit-that-fumbled-punt version.

TODAY’S BOWLS! You’ll all get to see how good San Diego State’s been for two months (unless Tommy Tuberville does the Random Tommy Tuberville Team Quality Generator thing), and Boise State-NIU is just not gonna be as live as it would’ve been in almost any other year in this decade.

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