It's the only bowl game so far between ranked teams, or at least one consensus ranked team and another finding support in one of the polls

Last year's Fight Hunger Bowl was one of the most obviously skippable bowl games ever. This one should be better.

It's one of a few bowls featuring former conference mates now split apart by realignment.

It could be a brisk game in Fort Worth, with two teams that run when they do anything well on offense. But the number of games this season are dwindling, so tune in

College football on TV is better than no college football on TV, right?

Both of these teams are at least solid on defense. When it comes to scoring on their own, however ... well, it's harder than it looks

The SEC ran out of bowl eligible teams before filling this slot, so it sent its surrogate instead.

The holidays -- a perfect time to watch an all-out offensive slugfest between two teams named after bears. Or something

The bowl game in Charlotte is one that feels like it should have "Rocky Top" playing during timeouts.

Get a hefty dose of patriotism and some good defense in a matchup between a WAC team and a MAC team who might actually be able to stop the scoring every once in a while