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We gave the names of a bunch of ridiculous college football bowl games to a computer. Now it’s here to make fake bowl names for you.

See if you can use the Fake Bowl Name Generator to top the “Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl.”

College football’s bowl season is famous for its very silly bowl game names. We decided to feed a bunch of bowl names into a computer and have artificial intelligence come up with some new additions to the list:


What’d you come up with? Does this game sound like it has a fictional backstory? Drop it in the comments!

Where would these names rank on the list of the most ridiculous bowl game names ever?

3. (tie) magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl (2008)
St. Petersburg Bowl Presented by Beef ‘O’ Brady’s (2009)
Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl (2010-13) in St. Petersburg, Fl.
Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl (2014)

Basically every name the St. Pete Bowl has ever been known by, other than the current one. We swore this game would never top being sponsored by a faux-Irish restaurant that cannot use apostrophes correctly, a USB device, and invisible internet money ... and yet ...

2. Poulan Weed Eater Independence Bowl (1991-97) in Shreveport

For decades, this was the go-to example anyone would use when listing off consolation-prize games or complaining about there being too many bowls. Saying “the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl” just does not happen, unless the speaker is making fun of something about bowl season.

This name became so synonymous with the idea of an embarrassing bowl trip that, 19 years after it’d changed, then-Houston head coach Tom Herman summoned it to mock rival SMU.

If you’re satisfied with going 7-5 and going to the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl, then great. Then you’re in the wrong program and we’ll find a place for you to go. I hear there’s a private school up in Dallas that’s really looking to try to get to seven wins.

(Herman then lost an upset to that private school, proving the mere mention of the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl lowers one’s talent levels.)

Topping the legendary Poulan Weed Eater Bowl was something I never thought I’d see happen in my lifetime. This was the 47-game Oklahoma win streak of terrible bowl names ... and yet ...

1. The Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (2017-) in St. Petersburg

The St. Pete Bowl is the absolute god of incredible names. If the entire top five of this list was nothing but St. Pete Bowl names, no one could complain.

This one is so good that it was hard to believe it was real, despite one of the sport’s best reporters breaking the news. He had to circle back and announce on Twitter that he was not kidding.

Even better: the game brought to you by lawnmowers IS PLAYED ON FAKE GRASS IN A BASEBALL STADIUM. Fake grass THAT USED TO BE SOME OF THE WORST TURF YOU’VE EVER BEHELD. The game’s sponsor is completely useless within its own stadium. Diabolical.

What’s a “Gasparilla?”

Well, you see, Tampa has an annual event (about a month after this bowl game) called the Gasparilla Pirate Fest.

OK, but what’s a “Gasparilla?”

Per Wikipedia:

The theme of the Gasparilla Festival was inspired by the local legend of José Gaspar, a Spanish naval officer who turned to piracy. [...] Despite this colorful history, there is no evidence that a pirate named Gaspar or Gasparilla ever operated off the Florida coast. [...] In fact, researchers have found no contemporaneous records either in Spain or the United States that mention Gaspar’s existence, and no physical evidence of his presence in Florida has ever been uncovered.

To sum up: the bowl that was mostly known for ugly fake grass is now brought to you by a totally unnecessary lawnmower company that is CERTIFIED BADASS, BABY and has the same name as Diddy’s record label, all in honor of a pirate who might not’ve been real and who definitely had nothing to do with Tampa, St. Petersburg, colleges, football, lawnmowers, Bitcoin, USB connectors, Steamy Queso ‘O’ Poppers, or bowl games.

That’s one of the dumbest sentences ever typed, and I could not possibly love this sport more.

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