The top 4 most watchable non-New Year's Six bowl games

Bowl season is upon us. Or rather, college football exhibition season, if that’s how you feel about it.

Nevertheless, the holidays will be littered with games from the Bahamas to Idaho. We’ll see winning coaches drenched in mayo and covered in corn flakes. We’ll see teams battle for trophies bearing the names of sugary cereal, mortgage lenders and late-night talk show hosts. Some of our favorite players are playing (shoutout to Grayson McCall for sending bettors into a frenzy) while others are skipping.

As usual, this bowl season is shaping up to be a beautiful mess.

Outside of the New Year’s Six games, some of these will be truly difficult to digest. We’ve seen some historically bad football played during bowl season.

But some of the games not played around New Year’s could be really fun.

Here are the four most watchable games from that non-NY6 class, with apologies to the Cure Bowl, featuring No. 24 Troy and No. 25 UTSA.