As the college bowl season swings into full force, don't forget to check out our college writers' picks. And for your own recreational purposes, check out our Bowl Previews for every game.

And just for fun, here's another reason to hate the BCS -- it has ruined Jan. 1.

I spent my life honing my New Year's Day remote-control navigational skills, intuitively jumping from game to game at just the right moment to catch all the big plays. Now it doesn't matter. Only two games kickoff at the same time, and none are games that I really care to drag myself out of bed for. And how did the Outback, Gator and Capital One bowls ever make it to New Year's Day? For all the talk about protecting the integrity of the bowl system, college football has destroyed the best thing about the bowls -- New Year's Day.