Every year during bowl season, I'm in a foul mood. I hate the system. The games (minus the 2007 Fiesta Bowl) suck because they are always characterized by sloppy play between teams who haven't faced live competition in a month and whose players spend the week leading up to the game sneaking out past curfew. Meanwhile, college football automatons flood my Twitter feed with orgasmic excitement about the match-ups of teams who could give a crap about whether they win or lose these games.
Sooner fans generally inform me that my opinion is flavored by the Cowboys always playing in what they refer to as a "dot com" bowl. Basically, OSU plays in a lesser bowl named after a sponsor instead something tradition rich. That isn't the case this year. The Cowboys are playing in the Fiesta Bowl while the Sooners are at the Insight.com Bowl and I'm only slightly more happy for reasons having nothing to do with the game. (A bump in program prestige that should assist in recruiting pleases me.)