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I assume the goal was at one point to go wall to wall for people who took off between Christmas and New Years. And you gotta burn off bowls somewhere.

I can find a vague reason to watch any of them, though today’s slate has less pull than tomorrow’s for me.

Winner. "Capital One Bowl Week" was born of this.

Notre Dame - Florida would attract some eye balls, including mine.  Instead, ND played ISU in the Underpants bowl.

Or was it the Tampax Bowl?  Charmin Bowl?  Did we ever have a Pepsi or Coke Bowl?  Why not a Dr. Pepper Bowl?  They could have Tech play State.

I'd like to see a "2000 Flushes Bowl".  The AMX Bowl?  The BMW Bowl?  The Pepto Bismol Bowl.

The Tito's Vodka Bowl.

Weird that they put so many bowl games on weekday afternoons.

Who's watching these, other than college kids on Winter Break?

My company used to have a "shutdown" twice a year, once during 4th of July week (which is right after the end of the fiscal year for us) and once between Christmas and New Year's Day. For public companies, employees holding large amounts of banked vacation time must be treated as a financial liability, and Wall St hates that, so the entire purpose was to get employees to burn through some of their PTO. I think the Christmas->New Year's week is a very common time for people in corporate office jobs to take time off, even if not officially a "shutdown". 

We've since gone to a PTO honor system which negated the financial incentive for a forced shutdown. However, in my role, most of my customers are off for the holidays so I'm working from home, as it's incredibly slow. So having these games on gives me something to put on in the background while I work. 

We already have 5 Dr. Pepper Bowls in early December. Please. No Mas.

Who even drinks that stuff? It's disgusting.

Who even drinks that stuff? It's disgusting.

Hillbillies.

Hillbillies.

Ahh, State fans then? 

My company used to have a "shutdown" twice a year, once during 4th of July week (which is right after the end of the fiscal year for us) and once between Christmas and New Year's Day. For public companies, employees holding large amounts of banked vacation time must be treated as a financial liability, and Wall St hates that, so the entire purpose was to get employees to burn through some of their PTO. I think the Christmas->New Year's week is a very common time for people in corporate office jobs to take time off, even if not officially a "shutdown".

We've since gone to a PTO honor system which negated the financial incentive for a forced shutdown. However, in my role, most of my customers are off for the holidays so I'm working from home, as it's incredibly slow. So having these games on gives me something to put on in the background while I work.

Yup.  The Christmas-NYD shutdown is really common in High Tech.  Somewhat less common in other professional fields, and as we've noted before, it's completely missing in manufacturing.

I used to work on Christmas Day back when I was in semiconductor manufacturing. Wafer fabs run 3 shifts and don't ever shut down. That sucked and is one of the many reasons I left semiconductors.