Yesterday’s Boca Raton Bowl game was supposed to pit 6-6 South Florida against 6-6 Syracuse. But the Bulls were really the only team that showed up yesterday.
USF raced out to a 31-0 halftime lead that completely demoralized the Syracuse Orange. The game got so lopsided that the ESPN announcer team didn’t even want to talk about the game by the end of the third quarter.
With just 1:02 remaining in the third, Matt Barrie and Dan Mullen started joking about wanting to find other things to talk about once the game reached a 38-0 USF lead. They debated between talking about the new season of The Crown or ranking all-time great Christmas movies.
“In the 4th quarter, I’d like to talk about everything that bugs me about Love, Actually,” one of them suggested.
Ultimately, USF won the game 45-0 with quarterback Byrum Brown leading the Bulls in both passing and rushing.
With the Boca Raton Bowl game a blowout late in the 3rd quarter, the ESPN commentary went off the rails.
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— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 22, 2023
After depriving us of any bowl games to watch on Wednesday, it might have been better to not have any bowl game on Thursday at all than for it to be one as lopsided as that one.
Did you watch the entire game?