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Every week, we'll take a look at where the bowl eligible Penn State Nittany Lions are projected to go bowling. This post is sponsored by the song "Almighty Malachi, Professional Bowling God" by Stephen Lynch.
SB Nation (Jason Kirk)
Bowl: TaxSlayer Bowl
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Date: Jan. 2, 2016
Opponent: LSU
CBS Sports (Jerry Palm)
Bowl: Music City Bowl
Location: Nashville, TN
Date: Dec. 30, 2015
Opponent: Ole Miss
Sporting News (Bill Bender)
Bowl: Music City Bowl
Location: Nashville, TN
Date: Dec. 30, 2015
Opponent: Arkansas
ESPN (Brett McMurphy)
Bowl: Foster Farms Bowl
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Date: Dec. 26, 2015
Opponent: Utah
ESPN (Mark Schlabach)
Bowl: TaxSlayer Bowl
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Date: Jan. 2, 2016
Opponent: Georgia
Fox Sports (Stewart Mandel)
Bowl: Music City Bowl
Location: Nashville, TN
Date: Dec. 30, 2015
Opponent: Georgia
With things starting to take shape, it looks like Penn State's chances of going to the Foster Farms Bowl are decreasing. In its place are two other bowl games for Big Ten teams in the 5-7 range: the Music City Bowl and the TaxSlayer Bowl. Nashville or Jacksonville, baby. It's every backup NFL QB's nightmare.
As for the matchups, we've touched on Georgia more than enough, Ole Miss would be a fun game, Arkansas would be ugly as hell but still generally entertaining (especially if BERT TEARS), and Utah would be cold vomit on a paper dish. The game I'd most look forward to, though, is the one we haven't seen on this list before: LSU. Not only is Leonard Fournette a great test for the Nittany Lion run defense, but there's about a 75 percent chance that the Tigers wouldn't have Les Miles on the sidelines for this game, so we'd get to see a Bob Shoop defense against a Cam Cameron offense. That seems like it would be a good time.
So, per usual, I ask: which of these possible matchups do you think would be the most fun?