Clint Lamb
With the College Football Playoff expansion on the horizon, people now worry about the future of normal bowl games. After years of being a staple of college football, several bowls, including a few prominent ones, have diminished in prominence.
And you know what, maybe a few of them need to get axed.
My first vote goes to the latest addition of bowl games, which was announced on Wednesday. What is the name of this bowl? None other than the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl, which is now set to be played Dec. 18 on ABC. Included will be the No. 1 selection for the Mountain West facing off against the Pac-12’s No. 5 selection.
No, I am not joking. And to be honest, I wouldn’t have believed me either.
Finally, a college football bowl named after a human being…the inaugural Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl on December 18th at @SoFiStadium pic.twitter.com/SylNjHUPK2
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) June 17, 2021
Like, what are we doing here?
We need to save bowl games, and this is college football’s big move? Are they hurting for bowl sponsors? I guess my ego could handle the Clint Lamb Birmingham Bowl, but I demand that it include Rutgers and Kansas facing off every year with damn near winless records.
Kimmel landed the partnership after signing a multi-year deal with SoFi Stadium, home of the Rams and Chargers. In that deal, the host was given official naming rights, according to Yahoo Sports, and Kimmel must’ve thought, “Hey, this is a great way to stroke my ego and make headlines.”
See, this is what happens when you start throwing absurd ideas out there like a 12-team playoff. Once you’ve crossed that threshold, there are no more rules. It’s the Wild Wild West out here.
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Will the teams play football, or will they kneel for the anthem, speak out against toxic masculinity, burn down a Wendy’s, berate people in believing SCiEnCe, then go watch a women’s soccer game?
All the while calling their female coeds bitches and raping + throwing them around….kind of like how Jimmy boy was on The Man Show previously yet claims to he the authority on women’s rights.
I’ll be sure to not watch that one
ESPN has the rights to air these bowl games. This is going to be one of the Tuesday games with teams barely above .500. Jimmy Kimmel’s name is being shoved in there because of ABC and ESPN are owned by the same company. This is an easy way for Disney to promote one crappy show with terrible ratings on a network with terrible daytime ratings. Football fans really don’t care as long as it’s live football being played.
Be honest, would you be more likely to watch this or the drivel ESPN usually has in those daytime slots?
You are 100% correct with this. But if I were home on said Tuesday afternoon, I’d probably watch a rerun of Forged in Fire or House Hunters over that. Just because something is called a bowl game doesn’t make a matchup like Nevada vs. Miami Ohio watchable
Thanks for not saying Fresno State.
Go Dogs!
I take it all back. December 18th is a Saturday.
Still a crappy bowl I probably wont watch.
Call it The Blackface Bowl
The woke loser bowl.
Foe him it should be called the soy bowl
It should be called “the Man Show Bowl”
Whatever..I won’t be watching this POS’s bowl
I would actually watch Rutgers and Kansas (sorry fans) over the new Kimmel woke bowl. Can you imagine the celebration after winning your 1st game!