The final Big Ten bowl of the coming season is ... the Alamo Bowl?

The bowl schedule for the coming college football season is set, with dates, times, football networks, and for all I know, lousy halftime entertainment.

To cut-and-paste the lineup, click here.

Incredibly, the 34 bowls are the very same 34 as last season. The St. Petersburg B owl has survived. So has the New Mexico Bowl and the Papajohns.com Bowl and the International Bowl and the EagleBank Bowl.

You Big Ten fans in the crowd may already know this, but the Alamo Bowl will be held on Jan. 2, 2010, a day after the Rose, Capital One and Outback Bowls.

"You saw three better Big Ten teams yesterday," the Alamo Bowl could advertise on the day of the game,  "now see ours."

I've covered Rose, Orange, Peach (now Chick-fil-a), Holiday, Alamo, Sun, Outback, Capital One and Insight.com (now Insight) bowls. I know it would be a disappointment to you Hawkeye fans, but I would love to cover a Motor City Bowl sometime.

The day after Christmas. Downtown Detroit. Iowa against a Mid-American Conference team. Wouldn't that be grand?

But seriously, folks, there is just one bowl game, and that's the Rose. Iowa hasn't been there since the 1990 season. One trip to Pasadena beats all the Outbacks and Alamos put together.

And that's the truth, Ruth.