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Worst College Football Bowl Names

First Posted: 3/18/10 Updated: 5/25/11

Worst College Bowl Names

US News:

The "Tostitos Fiesta Bowl." I can live with that. Chips. A party. Football. They go together.

But a lot of the other college bowls are horrific-sounding concoctions that George Orwell couldn't have dreamed up. The marketing geniuses who ink these sponsorship deals mainly care about just one thing--getting the corporate name in front of the masses. If there's a particular message or product they're trying to sell, they cram that into the name too. And why worry if it sounds like self-parody? Football fans, they assume, are probably too thick to notice.

So with the sponsorship season coming to a climax, here are some of the absurdities that will be tripping across the TV screen:

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The "Tostitos Fiesta Bowl." I can live with that. Chips. A party. Football. They go together. But a lot of the other college bowls are horrific-sounding concoctions that George Orwell couldn't have...
The "Tostitos Fiesta Bowl." I can live with that. Chips. A party. Football. They go together. But a lot of the other college bowls are horrific-sounding concoctions that George Orwell couldn't have...
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