It's 7:55 p.m. on Saturday and it's almost time for the St. Petersburg presented by Beef O'Brady's Bowl pitting the University of Central Florida against Rutgers.

Wow. They are both Knights. UCF is just plain ol' Knights while Rutgers are the Scarlet ones.

How interesting.

Is that enough intrigue to make me watch what amounts to an exhibition game played under the false importance of a "bowl?"

What to do? Do I watch or do something else, like Twitter-stalk Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde or harvest my crops in Farmville (those peas, potatoes, carrots and wheat aren't going to pick themselves).

Maybe I'll do a little Wii bowling — you know, work on that wicked hook with my Mii that bears a striking resemblance to Kim Jong Il.

Truthfully, almost anything has a bigger appeal to me than watching this snoozer.

Bowl games are like the preseason in the NFL. Sure, it's football and any football is good in my book. But, in the grand scheme of things, there is nothing on the line to get my fandom into a froth.

There are 33 bowl games this year — a staggering number if you think about it — but only one has anything real at stake.

That would be the Citi BCS Championship Game between Texas and Alabama Jan. 7.

Even the other BCS Bowls are glorified scrimmages. What does Florida get out of beating Cincinnati other than a ton of greenbacks?

Bragging rights? Do you think the Gators are into winning bragging rights at the end of a season in which they thought they would be playing for a national title?

You bet your Tim Tebow-autographed Eye Black Stickers they aren't.

One could argue (and I am) that bowl games are less important than regular season games played in September. Those games often mean much more than, say, the Chick-fil-a Bowl or the Outback Bowl or the Papajohns.com Bowl.

Hmm. Suddenly, I'm feeling hungry.

It doesn't help that the bowl schedule is more bloated than former Kansas coach Mark Mangino.

Sixty-six of the 119 NCAA Division I-A teams will play in a bowl game in the next three weeks.

That bowl overkill gives us matchups like Ohio University against Marshall, Fresno State vs. Wyoming and Southern Mississippi vs. Middle Tennessee State.

Forced viewing of the poorly named Humanitarian Bowl, pitting Bowling Green vs. Idaho, has been banned by the Geneva Convention.

Believe me, there is nothing humanitarian about this matchup.

Need more proof of the meaningless nature of the bowl season: there are four Mid-American Conference schools in bowl games. Four! And my alma mater, Kent State, still can't crack the bowl lineup?

Let me know when Texas and Alabama kick off. I have Twitter-stalking to do.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.