Complaining about the number of bowl games is passe – since we’re not going to see a real playoff anytime soon, what difference does it make if there are 17 games or 34, because it’s all arbitrary anyway.

Plus, for all the whining about obscure bowl games, we all usually wind up watching a few of them anyway, because, hey, football is football, and when there’s nothing else on, you can’t go wrong with the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.

Chris and I are going to take a shot at picking all the bowl games this year because, let’s face it, we’re degenerate gamblers. Chris admits he doesn’t know a whole lot about the college game outside of the Pac-10, while I think I know a fair amount, but when it comes to Middle Tennessee State, I know nothing.

Let’s go bowling …

New Mexico Bowl – Dec. 19
Wyoming vs. Fresno State (Chris & Elliott)

St. Petersburg Bowl presented by Beef O’Brady’s – Dec. 19
Rutgers (Chris) vs. UCF (Elliott)

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl – Dec. 20
Middle Tennessee State vs. Southern Miss (C&E)

MAACO Las Vegas Bowl - Dec. 22
Oregon State (C&E) vs. BYU

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl – Dec. 23
Utah (C&E) vs. California

Sheraton Hawaii Bowl - Dec. 24
Nevada (C&E) vs. SMU

Emerald Bowl – Dec. 26
Boston College vs. USC (C&E)

Meineke Car Care Bowl – Dec. 26
North Carolina vs. Pittsburgh (C&E)

Little Caesars Bowl – Dec. 26
Ohio (C&E) vs. Marshall

Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl – Dec. 27
Kentucky vs. Clemson (C&E)

Independence Bowl – Dec. 28
Texas A&M (E) vs. Georgia (C)

Champs Sports Bowl – Dec. 29
Miami (C&E) vs. Wisconsin

EagleBank Bowl - Dec. 29
UCLA (C&E) vs. Temple

Pacific Life Holiday Bowl - Dec. 30
Nebraska (C) vs. Arizona (E)

Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl - Dec. 30
Idaho (E) vs. Bowling Green (C)

Texas Bowl – Dec. 31
Missouri (C) vs. Navy (E)

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl - Dec. 31
Air Force vs. Houston (C&E)

Brut Sun Bowl – Dec. 31
Stanford (C&E) vs. Oklahoma

Insight Bowl - Dec. 31
Minnesota (C) vs. Iowa State (E)

Chick-fil-A Bowl – Dec. 31
Virginia Tech (C&E) vs. Tennessee

Outback Bowl – Jan. 1
Northwestern (E) vs. Auburn (C)

Capital One Bowl - Jan. 1
Penn State (C&E) vs. LSU

Konica Minolta Gator Bowl - Jan. 1
West Virginia (C) vs. Florida State (E)

Rose Bowl presented by Citi – Jan. 1
Oregon (C&E) vs. Ohio State

Allstate Sugar Bowl - Jan. 1
Florida (C&E) vs. Cincinnati

AT&T Cotton Bowl – Jan. 2
Oklahoma State (E) vs. Mississippi (C)

AutoZone Liberty Bowl - Jan. 2
East Carolina vs. Arkansas (C&E)

International Bowl – Jan. 2
South Florida (C&E) vs. Northern Illinois

Papajohns.com Bowl - Jan. 2
Connecticut vs. South Carolina (C&E)

Valero Alamo Bowl - Jan. 2
Texas Tech (C&E) vs. Michigan State

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl – Jan. 4
TCU (C&E) vs. Boise State

FedEx Orange Bowl - Jan. 5 
Georgia Tech (C&E) vs. Iowa

GMAC Bowl – Jan. 6
Central Michigan (C&E) vs. Troy

Citi National Championship - Jan. 7
Texas (E) vs. Alabama (C)