| Franklin Am. Mortgage Music City Bowl | Dec. 30 | 6:40 p.m. | Nashville, TN | ESPN |
| Wake Forest vs. Mississippi State | ||||
| Insight Bowl | Dec. 30 | 10 p.m. | Tempe, AZ | ESPN |
| Iowa vs. Oklahoma |
Four bowls? On a Friday? Before New Years? ESPN is generous, they are.* The Music City Bowl, another outdoor bowl in a location that is relably pretty chilly in the middle of the winter, features two teams that are the football version of "it's that guy." Wake Forest...? They started that four fingers for for quarters thing? Right? They were ok a few years ago? Yeah. Missisippi State...? They had that African-American head coach? They lost 3-2 to Auburn? Yeah. But Nashville is not far from the best bacon in the world.** Cook some and eat it with your fingers. Alternatively, buy the Momofuku cookbook, and to everything with it that Chang and Meehan tell you to. either way, you will be spending your time more profitably than if you watch this game.
The nightcap brings the second representative from the state of Iowa, and we burned the LaQuercia card this afternoon. Tell you what: get up, get in to it, and get involved. Find a pig's head, cut the jowls off, and make jowl bacon, aka guanciale. Not difficult. Then you can make bucatini alla matriciana that will make the angels weep. The fellow in the orange Crocs has a good recipe.
*Not that anyone asks me, but it seems as if spreading out the bowls in the first week of January for better TV scheduling amounts to a tax from participating schools to ESPN.
**The post linked here garnered the Cod his only STFU Foodies mention. A special day, it was.
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