Cure Bowl 2021: 3 reasons to watch Northern Illinois vs Coastal Carolina

The college football bowl game season officially kicks off Dec. 17 and the best game of the day is The Cure Bowl 2021, featuring Northern Illinois and Coastal Carolina.

These two teams will be heading down to Exploria Stadium in Orlando to compete in this bowl game that is used as a platform to raise awareness for cancer research, according to the Cure Bowl website.

We’re taking a look at three reasons why you should tune into this bowl game, featuring teams from the Sun Belt and The Mid-American Conferences.

It’s Day One of the college football bowl games season

While technically not the very first game of the 2021 bowl game season, it is being held on the first day of bowl season.

College football fans have had just one game to tide them over since conference championship games — the Army-Navy game.

The first day of college football bowl season is a special one, as it kicks off a marathon of 40+ bowl games around the country. This game will be a great primer to dive into the full slate of games.