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Bowl game schedule

For those of you who schedule Christmas decorating and shopping around football, here's the complete list of Bowl Games. Here's one website's ranking of which ones are worth watching.

Notre Dame is bringing its 6-6 W-L record to Hawai'i on December 24 to play the University of Hawai'i in the Hawai'i Bowl. Time was Notre Dame would turn down bowl bids if it didn't feel its record merited it, but no more. In its defense, I think part of their bowl losing streak (0-9 and counting) has been the mystique of the program. During the past 14 years they've been invited to bowl games in which their opponents have been far better teams because bowl owners know that Notre Dame's fans will travel to see the games, no matter how good or bad the team might be. It will be interesting to see whether an ND-UH matchup will fill Aloha Stadium, since it's a lot more expensive and time-consuming to get to Hawai'i than to, say, Shreveport (site of the Independence Bowl, which ND played in in 1997) if you live in the Midwest.