At its core, bowl season embodies many of America’s truest tenets: midweek football (often in the middle of the day), crude corporate sponsorship and regionalistic jingoism, all under the auspices of higher education. It’s a flawed, beautiful, month-long melting pot, but in the end, there can only be one true champion.
No, we’re not talking about Georgia here. We’re talking about the MAC.
The conference known for dominating the Tuesday and Wednesday night time slots added another notch to its belt last year, finishing with the top bowl-winning percentage (.667) among FBS leagues. That earned the MAC the prestigious honor of claiming the 2022–23 Progressive Bowl Challenge Cup.