Episode 21: Bowled Over (feat. Matt Brown and the Sickos Committee)

As the year gets colder and the days in 2024 become shorter, we tend to cling to the warmth and comforts of the holiday season; Crackling fires, warm cocoa, and one of the more underrated parts of the season: a football game on your TV almost every day for the month of December. For most fans and alumni across the country, things such as roses, oranges, and sugar become more than table placements this time of year and bring about the same amount of warmth as their holiday counterparts. The same can be said equally for bowl season’s not as historic but just as fun siblings with drink coolers filled with french fries and mayo, celebrity hosted games, and edible mascots. 

Yet, this fun and wacky tradition is facing an uncertain future as the game of college football continues to roar towards a more professional model. For schools not known to be superpowers in this sport, those unique bowls are sometimes all they have to look forward to. As Bowl Season enters into a new landscape this season, I sat down with two fans and experts to understand where a Pop Tarts Bowl can fit into a College Football Playoff world.