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The 10 worst college football bowl names of 2022, ranked

College football bowl season is here! Which means it’s time for us to sit back and enjoy some postseason action between teams playing in, uh, some very fun exhibition games, many of which may not include the teams’ stars who could be preparing for the NFL.

And it also means you’re in for some bowl names that are just plain weird.

We don’t watch the Microsoft Super Bowl or the Pepsi World Series presented by Starbucks (sorry, I shouldn’t give anyone ideas!). But college bowls have all sorts of sponsors that, when combined with the name of the game, turn into some weird-sounding stuff.

So here they are: The 10 worst names for bowls this year:

10
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl

Sounds more like the name of a boring conference you’d attend than a football game.

9
Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl Presented by Stifel

Only on the list because I want to troll Jimmy Kimmel for sponsoring a bowl. But also, this is wayyyyyyy too long.

8
TaxAct Texas Bowl

Try saying it 10 times fast. You can’t.

7
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl

Not GRRRRRRRRRREAT!

6
Wasabi Fenway Bowl

This sounds like that game you play where your favorite food and the street you grew up on is your new movie star name.

5
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl

First, it makes the list because it’s super confusing: There’s a Cheez-It Bowl that is NOT this game.

Second: Cheez-Its combined with some sort of citrus makes me nauseous.

4
Duluth Trading Cure Bowl

Word Salad, Part I.

3
Cricket Celebration Bowl

(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

It’s not a celebration of the wonderful game of cricket! Or a celebration of the noisy insect! But it sure sounds like it!

2
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl

Word salad, Part II.

1
Duke's Mayo Bowl

On this list now and forever because a bowl of mayo is an awful image.

So is this:

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