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Power Ranking the 2021-22 College Football Bowls By How Funny Their Names Are

Jake Hunter
Dec 21, 2021
3 min read

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These rankings are in order from least-funny to most-funny.

43. The "Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl"

If you're going to name a bowl after a person and expect to do well in these rankings, then you need to pick someone other than the least funny human being alive.

42. The "Rose Bowl Game"

41. The "Frisco Football Classic"

40. The "Capital One Orange Bowl"

39. The "Military Bowl"

38. The "Bahamas Bowl"

37. The "Myrtle Beach Bowl"

36. The "Allstate Sugar Bowl"

You'll come to realize in these rankings that the most famous bowl games are often have the most boring names

35. The "Valero Alamo Bowl"

34. The "Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic"

Is cotton a crucial part of the tire-making business at Goodyear? One has to wonder after seeing this partnership.

33. The "Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl"

32. The "LendingTree Bowl"

31. The "EasyPost Hawai'i Bowl"

30. The "New Era Pinstripe Bowl"

29. The "Vrbo Citrus Bowl"

28. The "TaxAct Texas Bowl"

This isn't the only TaxAct bowl game on here, but it's the least-funny one.

27. The "Quick Lane Bowl"

26. The "Guaranteed Rate Bowl"

25. The "Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl"

Barstool Sports is big enough now that it's not really that funny if they sponsor a bowl game.

24. The "Outback Bowl"

This one might honestly deserve to be higher, but it's been in circulation for so long that I figured I'd move it down the list. Still, it's a football game named after a mass-production steakhouse.

23. The "San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl"

Who even uses credit unions anymore?

22. The "TransPerfect Music City Bowl"

For those who are wondering, TransPerfect is a translation software company. So obviously that should be synonymous with a football game played in the city of Nashville, Tennessee.

21. The "Tailgreeter Cure Bowl"

20. The "Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl"

19. The "AutoZone Liberty Bowl"

18. The "TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl"

17. The "SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl"

This name will land in the top three when SRS Distribution (a roofing company) is discovered to be in a money-laundering scheme with half of the casinos on the Vegas Strip in the next three years. Alas, it sits at #17 for now.

16. The "Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl"

Now I'm hungry, but I'm not really sure what for.

15. The "R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl"

14. The "Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl"

13. The "SERVPRO First Responder Bowl"

Nothing pays homage to our first responders like forcing a few hundred of them (presumably awarded with free tickets) sit in the Texas sun to watch Air Force and Louisville play in a Group of Five team's 90% empty stadium while the bowl executives and SERVPRO reps all high-five in the luxury suites as they pocket a few million off the TV deals. Nothing but respect to our first responders, though.

12. The "Playstation Fiesta Bowl"

When I think of the word "Fiesta", I typically think of a gaming console made by a company founded in Japan.

11. The "TaxSlayer Gator Bowl"

I like to think of this bowl not as the "TaxSlayer Gator Bowl", but rather the "TaxSlayer Gator Bowl" like they have a gator mascot that runs around eating IRS agents or something like that.

10. The "TaxAct Camellia Bowl"

Nature is in perfect harmony when tax software and flowers combine.

9. The "Famous Idaho Potato Bowl"

This game is sponsored by the "Idaho Potato Commission". Yes, that's a thing that exists.

8. The "Cricket Celebration Bowl"

Shoutout to all the crickets out there. This game's for you.

7. The "Duke's Mayo Bowl"

They couldn't get Hellman's to take over this year?

6. The "Cheez-It Bowl"

I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEESIEST, COACH!!!!

5. The "RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl"

I love bowl games that have URLs in the name.

4. The "Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl"

Even Frosted Flakes didn't want their names attached to this, so they're just pinning it all on their fake tiger.

3. The "PUBG Mobile New Mexico Bowl"

I feel like the developers of the game itself wouldn't be crazy to just call their next game "PUBG: New Mexico". I'd actually consider downloading that.

2. The "Wasabi Fenway Bowl"

Two of America's national pastimes:

1. Heading down to the ole historic ballpark for an afternoon

2. Losing three pounds of water weight through your eyes while your sinuses melt into oblivion because you thought you were grabbing a white chocolate-covered pistachio out of your friend's snack bowl instead of a horseradish-drenched pea

1. The "Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl"

I mean, come on. It's a bowl game named after a pirate festival that's being sponsored by the most benign-sounding business on the face of the planet. I'm pretty sure "Union Home Mortgage" is literally the placeholder text you see when you go to add your company's name to a business directory.

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