This is how dumb the college bowls have become (not to mention that any team that wins a couple of games pretty much plays in a bowl game now):

The names of the games have gotten so crass and commercialized that the Meineke Bowl and the Chick-fil-A Bowl seem like the Grandaddys Of Them All. I mean, PapaJohns.com Bowl? Are you kidding me?

Anyway, the madness starts Saturday with the EagleBank Bowl and the New Mexico Bowl—how’d you like to be the Grand Marshall for those parades?—so we here at Faceoff are going to provide you with the winners. Although in some cases, if not most, we will also provide you with the losers, and in many cases we will provide you with neither and you’ll have to figure them out yourselves.

The caveat is that at any time, but especially in this economy, you remember not to wager. If you must wager, though, please don’t wager on these picks. We sure won’t.

Before we get to that, though, here is tonight’s NFL pick: Colts (-6 1/2) over JAGUARS.

Bowls

EagleBank—Wake Forest over Navy
New Mexico—Colorado State over Fresno State
St. Petersburg—South Florida over Memphis
Las Vegas—BYU over Arizona
New Orleans—So. Mississippi over Troy
Poinsettia—Boise State over TCU
Hawaii—Notre Dame over Hawaii
Motor City—Central Michigan over Florida Atlantic
Meineke—North Carolina over West Virginia
Champs Sports—Florida State over Wisconsin
Emerald—California over Miami
Independence—Louisiana Tech over N. Illinois
PapaJohns.com—Rutgers over N.C. State
Alamo—Missouri over Northwestern
Humanitarian—Maryland over Nevada
Texas—Rice over Western Michigan
Holiday—Oklahoma State over Oregon
Armed Forces—Air Force over Houston
Sun—Oregon State over Pitt
Music City—Vanderbilt over Boston College
Insight—Kansas over Minnesota
Chick-fil-A—Georgia Tech over LSU
Outback—Iowa over South Carolina
Gator—Clemson over Nebraska
Capital One—Georgia over Michigan State
Rose—USC over Penn State
Orange—Virginia Tech over Cincinnati
Cotton—Texas Tech over Mississippi
Liberty—East Carolina over Kentucky
Sugar—Alabama over Utah
International—Buffalo over UConn
Fiesta—Texas over Ohio State
GMAC—Tulsa over Ball State
BCS Championship—Florida over Oklahoma

10:30 a.m., Friday, Sam says:

Bad job by me not getting on here yesterday but I was pretty swamped handling the craziness at Yankee Stadium. You can read my column on CC Sabathia here, my notebook on A.J. Burnett and other assorted news here and some other tidbits about the day on Pete Abraham’s excellent LoHud Yankees Blog here.

As for the NFL game, I’ll gladly take a loss because – as a former Jacksonville resident – I would have taken the Jaguars anyway. Now, on to the college picks …

EagleBank—Navy over Wake Forest
New Mexico—Colorado State over Fresno State
St. Petersburg—South Florida over Memphis
Las Vegas—BYU over Arizona
New Orleans—Troy over So. Miss
Poinsettia—TCU over Boise State
Hawaii—Hawaii over Notre Dame
Motor City—Central Michigan over Florida Atlantic
Meineke—West Virginia over North Carolina
Champs Sports—Wisconsin over Florida State
Emerald—California over Miami
Independence—Louisiana Tech over N. Illinois
PapaJohns.com—Rutgers over N.C. State
Alamo—Missouri over Northwestern
Humanitarian—Maryland over Nevada
Texas—W. Michigan over Rice
Holiday—Oklahoma State over Oregon
Armed Forces—Air Force over Houston
Sun—Oregon State over Pitt
Music City—Vanderbilt over Boston College
Insight—Kansas over Minnesota
Chick-fil-A—LSU over Ga. Tech
Outback—South Carolina over Iowa
Gator—Clemson over Nebraska
Capital One—Georgia over Michigan State
Rose—USC over Penn State
Orange—Virginia Tech over Cincinnati
Cotton—Texas Tech over Mississippi
Liberty—Kentucky over E. Carolina
Sugar—Alabama over Utah
International—Buffalo over UConn
Fiesta—Texas over Ohio State
GMAC—Ball State over Tulsa
BCS Championship—Oklahoma over Florida