It’s college football bowl season! And we here at For The Win are pretty excited about that because it’s more great (and sometimes terrible but also still great) football, it’s a chance for NFL prospects to boost their draft stock, it means more college football during the week and eventually, a new national champion will be crowned.
But we’re also excited for bowl season because it’s that time of year when winning teams douse their winning coaches with what’s commonly known as a Gatorade bath — but in recent years, the contents have gone so far beyond anything resembling Gatorade. Or water.
The coaches’ celebratory baths have evolved lately with the baths from giant water coolers now sometimes being related to the bowl games’ sponsors. And that’s made the jubilant post-game scenes even better, as coaches now give on-field interviews covered in snacks or beverages — and, hopefully, eventually, a major condiment.
So as the 2021 college football bowl season gets ready to kick off, we’ve ranked the 11 best things that should go in the coolers for players to dump on their coaches. These are purely edible suggestions, as fun as it would be to see the winning coach from the Myrtle Beach Bowl get a cooler full of sand dumped on him. And the ranking and items suggested are based on the bowl’s sponsors, the bowl name itself and other random things.
Bowl organizers: Please feel free to take every single one of these proposals.
