Bowls will spend over $5 million in gifts to players
A new bowl season means a new list of bowl swag for college football players.
According to the Sports Business Journal, bowls will spend at least $5.4 million on gifts to players this year. It's up 11 percent from the previous year, but there are also new bowl games like the Bahamas Bowl and Camellia Bowl, as well as the Miami Beach Bowl and the Boca Raton Bowl.
• Players are allowed to receive up to $550 in gifts from bowl games You can click the link above for the full breakdown. Here are some highlights:
• Players in eight bowl games get Fossil watches. We need to see if we still have ours buried somewhere.
• The Zaxby's Heart of Dallas Bowl is giving away a "Big Game football" and a backpack and a beanie. And, presumably, lots of fried chicken.
• The teams that go to the Belk Bowl get a shopping trip to Belk, not Kohl's.
• Holiday Bowl participants get a $445 Best Buy gift card. The Russell Athletic Bowl and Citrus Bowls give away a $447 gift card. The $2 could be the difference in a 50" and a 50.1" TV.
• Military Bowl players get an XBox One and an Under Armour backpack.
• Players in the Bahamas Bowl get an Ogio Marshall backpack and a New Era hat. Oh, and a trip to the Bahamas.
• Predictably, the New Era Pinstripe Bowl only gives out New Era products. However, according to SBJ, they wouldn't identify the products. The Goodyear Cotton Bowl and College Football Playoff Championship Game also declined to say what would be given away, though in the case of the CFP game, players will have already received gifts from either the Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl.
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Nick Bromberg is the assistant editor of Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at nickbromberg@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!
