College Football Bowl Schedule: Best, Worst Days To Watch

True sports fans will be planted in front of flatscreens all across America for the five BCS bowls, but what about the undercard? We’re running down the best and worst days to tune into the 2010 college football bowl season.
THE BEST
December 29. You’ve got the Sinister Weapons Bowl in the afternoon featuring one fanbase in pirate costumes and precisely one defense, Ron Zook getting mauled by Robert Griffin in the early evening, and for the Wednesday night owls, a 9:15 kickoff for an Alamo Bowl featuring an Oklahoma State team that punched wildly above their weight all season and an Arizona team that had hoped to contend for a Pac-10 title.
December 31. Strictly for the spiteful. Storylines packed with potential hilarity abound. Catholics Vs. Convicts Redux! Mark Richt Vs. George O’Leary! South Carolina has to come back to the Georgia Dome and pretend last Saturday never happened!
January 9. The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is maddening both in title and scheduling, but watching a vengeful Nevada outfit that was one bad night in Hawaii away from going undefeated throw themselves against Boston College will serve as a scintillating appetizer for the next night’s BCS national championship game. THE WORST
December 7-17. We’re all for resting players to have everyone at their best for postseason action, but final exams at many schools are already over and most players will be back at practice over the holidays. There will be no college football on television. This is horrid.
December 18. The first day of bowl play starts off with high potential for heartbreak. The leadoff bowl (New Mexico) pits once-mighty BYU against a UTEP team that’s as capable of winning by 20 as they are of losing by 40. (On second thought, this one might not be too bad.) It’s followed, however, by Northern Illinois vs. Fresno State in the Humanitarian Bowl. One team will be horribly unused to playing in snow. The other has just lost their head coach and a conference championship inside of a weekend.
January 8. The BBVA Compass Bowl has earned our undying enmity for being played at the ramshackle Legion Field, for inviting a Pitt team that’s unwatchable even by Dace Wannstedt’s standards, and for not lending itself easily to pizza jokes.