If a computer were to generate outlandish names for college football bowl games, it would be hard to beat the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparillo Bowl.

But this is an actual bowl game to be played this Thursday. It features the matchup no one in the college football world has ever requested, a game between Florida International and Temple.
Don’t care? I don’t blame you.

Scanning the list of 41 bowl games, there are only four that seem worth watching. They are the two playoff games, the national championship, and the Citrus Bowl between LSU and Notre Dame. Even the usually entertaining Music City Bowl is a sedative, pitting Kentucky against Northwestern.

One of the tidbits I noticed from the schedule is there’s even a Dollar General Bowl to be played in Mobile, Ala. If this game were indicative of the Dollar General landscape, it would be played in Warren County nine times.

Some bowls are already in the books, like the third Celebration Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. Attendance figures show there were 16,700 people willing to pay between $50 and $175 a ticket to see North Carolina A&T play Grambling State. This would have been the perfect time to scour the crowd and conduct a Gallup Poll: “What were you thinking when you bought a ticket to this game?”

Give yourself 10 bonus points if you knew Grambling State is in Louisiana. Give yourself 20 bonus points if you knew the mascot for North Carolina A&T, which is the Bulldog.

I mention all this bowl absurdity only to mock college football and the NCAA for its hypocrisy. It’s OK to have 41 mostly meaningless bowl games in the name of revenue, but it’s not OK to pay the players. It’s the players who are filling the stands, well kinda. The coaches are sure getting their share.

Looking at the website for the Camellia Bowl, a game played Saturday where our very own MTSU beat Arkansas State, it shows the bowl had 53 total sponsors. This includes the title sponsor to make it officially the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl.

College football has fully sold out to the almighty dollar. Thus we have the upcoming slugfest between Wyoming and Central Michigan in the Idaho Potato Bowl, a bowl with 26 sponsors.

In a way, college football is a microcosm of society. The guys who are doing all the work, the players, get paid nothing while some guy at the top gets all the money.