Is it possible that 12 bowl games have been played already? Whew, they really fly by when you don't watch them.

But cheer up. The Jan. 1 and BCS bowls are just around the corner, as Monday will bring an orgy of prestigious, if completely inconsequential, college football games.

If you missed my preview of the pre-Jan. 1 bowls, you can see it here. And not to pat myself on the back too much, but if you are an astute reader you will probably note that I didn't get a single prediction wrong. And if you are an especially astute reader, you unfortunately probably also will note that I didn't make any predictions. Anyway, on to Jan. 1 and beyond ...

January 1

Outback Bowl: Penn State vs. Tennessee
Location: Tampa, Fla.
Penn State coach Joe Paterno hopes to be recovered enough from his leg injuries to be on the sideline for the Outback Bowl. If Paterno does make it back, he'll be surrounded by several bodyguards charged with protecting him. But the thing that will save him the most will be his cocoon of old man smell -- a protective sphere of olfactive stimulation that only the bravest dare approach.

Bowl Fun Fact: The winners of the Outback Bowl receive free Bloomin' Onions for life and 10 percent off one angioplasty.

AT&T Cotton Bowl: Nebraska vs. Auburn
Location: Dallas
A few years ago, this would have been a smashmouth, knock-down, drag-out football game featuring two storied programs with long histories of running the ball. But, no, all of a sudden Nebraska became too good for that. "Ooh! Ooh! Look at us! We've decided the forward pass is not just a fad! Look! Watch us fling the ball through the air! Yippee!" Sellouts.

Bowl Fun Fact: Cotton bowls may be soft and lightweight, but, yeah -- if you try to eat a bowl of soup or some cereal out of them? Prepare for a mess.

Toyota Gator Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. West Virginia
Location: Jacksonville, Fla.
West Virginia is a good bet to beat Georgia Tech, and that raises some interesting problems for Mountaineers fans who travel to Jacksonville for the game. Should they bring couches along with them to burn? Should they just purchase cheap couches in Jacksonville to incinerate? Should they burn the couches in their hotel rooms? Or should they just start breaking into homes in the neighborhood surrounding Alltel Stadium to set aflame all the couches they find inside? I suppose there is no right answer.

Bowl Fun Fact: Georgia Tech quarterback Reggie Ball is academically ineligible for the Gator Bowl. Unfortunately, this lessens the chances of seeing any spectacular catches out of Calvin Johnson because it's now more likely that passes will be thrown in the general vicinity of his hands instead of way over his head or several feet behind him.

Capital One Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Arkansas
Location: Orlando, Fla.
This year's Capital One Bowl features perhaps the best matchup of all the non-BCS games, and two standout running backs -- Wisconsin's P.J. Hill and Darren McFadden of Arkansas -- will be center stage. But don't overlook the quarterbacks. They will be charged with the task of taking the snap and immediately turning to hand the ball off. Unless their coaches have decided to just bypass them completely by snapping the ball directly to the running back -- in which case they can just stay home and spend the holiday with their families.

Bowl Fun Fact: What's in my wallet, Capital One? Let's see here ... Forty-six dollars. Two credit cards. My driver's license. A couple of pictures. And some fuzz in the depths of the billfold. Oh, gross, and there's a black, spirally hair mixed in with the fuzz. Disgusting. How did that get in there?

Rose Bowl presented by Citi: Southern California vs. Michigan
Location: Pasadena, Calif.
Neither team truly wants to be here, and if they aren't going to give a game that has absolutely no bearing on anything the respect and attention it deserves, then neither will I.

Bowl Fun Fact: There are currently 32 bowls, and the Rose Bowl is the granddaddy of them all. So apparently the Rose Bowl got around a good bit back in its day. Must have been all the roses. The ladies are suckers for that stuff.

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Boise State vs. Oklahoma
Location: Glendale, Ariz.
Can the underdog knock off the power? It will be tough, but I think the Sooners can take down the undefeated Broncos.

Bowl Fun Fact: If Rhett Bomar were still on Oklahoma's roster, his contract would pay him $135,000 in incentives for qualifying for a BCS bowl.

January 2

FedEx Orange Bowl: Wake Forest vs. Louisville
Location: Miami
All year, Wake Forest has been proving its doubters wrong, so there's no reason the Deacs can't do it again. I mean, really, the only reason is that Louisville is superior to them at every position. So I guess that's actually 22 reasons. Or 25 if you throw in the kicker, the punter and a return man. But regardless, I think my point still holds. More or less.

Bowl Fun Fact: I once tried to FedEx an orange bowl but wasn't allowed to send it because oranges are considered biodegradable materials.

January 3

Allstate Sugar Bowl: LSU vs. Notre Dame
Location: New Orleans
Notre Dame haters can't keep saying that the Golden Domers play a weak schedule. Just think about it -- LSU will be no less than the third top-10 team to crush the Irish this season. No other program has been embarrassed by more highly ranked teams in the past 12 months than Notre Dame. I mean, it's not even close. So take that, haters! But it's not as though Notre Dame is entirely incapable of springing the upset here. Although I doubt it will happen because I have a strong hunch that Brady Quinn will play poorly on purpose in hopes the Detroit Lions won't take him with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft. But that approach could backfire for Quinn.

I imagine playing poorly actually would somehow raise his stock in Matt Millen's eyes.

Bowl Fun Fact: One of Charlie Weis' lifelong dreams is to spend an entire day in a sugar bowl.

January 6

International Bowl: Cincinnati vs. Western Michigan
Location: Toronto
Now you've gone and done it, international community. You take our jobs. You burn our flag. You insult our president. You beat us in every sport that's ever been invented. Well, we've had enough -- and now it's all coming back at you. We're giving you Cincinnati and Western Michigan. Put that in your long cigarettes and smoke it.

Bowl Fun Fact: The International Bowl will be the first postseason bowl game played on foreign soil since 1937. And is it a coincidence that a world war began just two years after college football was taken from the international community? Yes, it is a coincidence.

January 7

GMAC Bowl: Southern Miss vs. Ohio
Location: Mobile, Ala.
Next-to-last but not least on the 2006-07 bowl schedule is the GMAC Bowl. Actually, hmm ... "next-to-last but not least" isn't really a saying, is it? It's "last but not least." I wonder if "next-to-last but not least" has never caught on solely because of the GMAC Bowl -- because it is next-to-last and it does kind of having a stinky least feel to it.

Bowl Fun Fact: Ohio coach Frank Solich's keys to the game are: (1) win the time of possession battle; (2) limit turnovers; (3) don't accidentally ingest a whole bunch of GHB.

January 8

Tostitos BCS Championship Game: Ohio State vs. Florida
Location: Glendale, Ariz.
Outside the obvious national title implications, the subplots in the BCS title game are endless. For instance, can Urban Meyer pull the upset and parlay it into landing his dream job at Notre Dame? Can Florida fans find a way to blame a loss on Ron Zook? And, most important, can Ohioans somehow find it within themselves to get up for this game just one day after watching their beloved Ohio University Bobcats play in the prestigious GMAC Bowl?

Bowl Fun Fact: At the time of his death in 1950, George Orwell was working on a book called "1998" in which he predicted the downfall of society would be brought on by computers deciding who plays for the college football national championship.

DJ Gallo is the founder and sole writer of the award-winning sports satire site SportsPickle.com. He is also a regular contributor to ESPN The Magazine and has written for The Onion and Cracked. His first book – "SportsPickle Presents: The View from the Upper Deck" – will be in stores soon.