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Gators safety Matt Elam and the Florida defense will try to contain Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater on Jan. 2 in the Sugar Bowl. / Gator Country photo by Curtiss Bryant

Bowl Week is finally here. Sure, there have been a number of bowls already, but they were all bowls and matchups that nobody cares about. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some intrigue around these meaningless bowls. For instance, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl that was played Saturday. The intrigue did not rest in the game itself, won by Arizona State over Navy 62-28, but in the question of how do you hold a game to fight hunger sponsored by a company that makes food that nobody will eat? Then there was the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg. Do they include the city name to avoid confusion with all the other Beef 'O' Brady's Bowls? And what grammatical inbreeding is necessary to put an apostrophe on both sides of the “O”? And did anyone else watch the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl? The game came down to the last minute, and there were no irrigation malfunctions, no linebackers missing tackles or kickers missing field goals because of the debilitating assault of light sprinkler water on their uniforms and no overtime. Either it has to change its ad campaign to reflect truth in advertising, or maybe Wild Wings has gotten so boring that everyone wanted to go home.

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