Seems like only yesterday, but it’s that time of year once again when college football hauls out the Magic 8 balls and the Ouija boards to make the post-season bowl selections.

A total of 68 teams will be chosen this year to compete in 34 bowl games ranging from the St. Petersburg Bowl to the FedEx BCS National Championship.

Quite a collection of bowl games the NCAA has on tap, everything from the Papajohns.com Bowl to the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.

I would have thought that the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl would feature two of the military academies squaring off against one another, it would seem only appropriate, but no. This bowl pits a team from the Mountain West Conference against one from Conference USA.

Navy is out of the running having already been tapped to play in the EagleBank Bowl against an opponent from the Atlantic Cost Conference and Army is 3-8 overall.

However, all is not lost. Air Force from the Mountain West is bowl eligible with a 9-4 record, so maybe the Whirlybird Bowl will have a military representative after all.

Fear not sports fans. What has become over the last several years the dismal military matchup between Army and Navy is scheduled for today and the midshipmen and cadets will be out in force, so don’t store the grill away for the winter and toss out the Johnsonville Brats just yet.

Bowl eligibility has become the current buzz word in the world of college football, and any team with six wins on its record has a shot at reaching post-season play.

Apparently it doesn’t make any difference what conference a team plays in, or who the opponents are, win six and you have a chance.

Shoot, you can even be an independent, just like Notre Dame — six victories will get you there.

Yes, indeed, the Fighting Irish who were beaten by 2-8 Syracuse and then got hammered by USC netting less than 100 yards in total offense, are 6-6 and in the running for either the Brut Sun Bowl or the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl. Figure that one out!

Here are some interesting facts.

Every member in the Atlantic Division of the ACC is bowl eligible. Seven members of the Big 10, including Wisconsin and Minnesota who are both 3-5 in the league, also have a chance of being selected. So is LSU in the SEC with a 3-5 league record and a 7-4 overall mark.

In the Big East, only Louisville and Syracuse have been eliminated from bowl contention. Even Connecticut (3-3 league) and South Florida who is 2-4 in league games but 7-4 overall have a chance.

The National Football League is becoming nearly as convoluted.

Here you have teams with 6-5 records who are leading their conferences and headed for the playoffs, while others are 8-3 and “still in the hunt” for a wild card berth. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Every year I try to come up with a new and unique name for a college bowl game and last year it was the Toilet Bowl, designed for teams that had the worst overall records in college football.

If this game was to be played this year, the University of Washington would be at the top of the list of teams to be selected.

Here’s my contribution for 2008.

How about a bowl game sponsored by Jack In the Box restaurants and call it the Breakfast Bowl?

The game would be for ham-and-eggers, you know, teams that are bowl eligible but really shouldn’t be playing in one because they truthfully aren’t good enough.

The trophy would consist of a ginormous bowl filled with scrambled eggs and all the fixings, served by the funny-looking guy in the pointy hat, and the highlight would be the winners munching on the gooey mess while raising their helmets in victory. Of course, you’d have to have a small mountain of hashbrowns on the side.

Not a bad idea, a bowl game for ham-and-eggers. Believe me, there are a lot of those types of college teams to choose from this season.