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College Football: Ranking the 2023 New Year’s Six bowls by watchability

By Christopher Mangum

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - DECEMBER 02: Head coach Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines leads his team onto the field prior to the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes during the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 02, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - DECEMBER 02: Head coach Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines leads his team onto the field prior to the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes during the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 02, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images) /
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Ohio State will face Missouri in the Cotton Bowl (College football New Year's Six)
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – NOVEMBER 25: Kyle McCord #6 hands the ball off to TreVeyon Henderson #32 of the Ohio State Buckeyes during the second half of a college football game against the Michigan Wolverines at Michigan Stadium on November 25, 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Michigan Wolverines won the game 30-24 to win the Big Ten East. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) /

5. Cotton Bowl (No. 7 Ohio State vs. No. 9 Missouri)

When you think Big Ten vs. SEC, you think Ohio State or Michigan taking on Alabama or Georgia. Well, this year’s Cotton Bowl is almost that, but not quite.

Missouri managed to climb the ladder of the SEC this fall, going 10-2 all said and done with losses against LSU and Georgia — this earned the Tigers a New Year’s Six bid to the Cotton Bowl as a reward for their first 10-win season in a decade.

While I think this game has the potential to be something special, and there is no doubt that Missouri deserves to be there, I just am not sure that it will be anything memorable.

Ohio State is right off the heels of its third straight loss to the Michigan Wolverines, and frankly, the Buckeyes’ best players — especially Marvin Harrison Jr. — will likely have the NFL Draft on their minds, not a non-College Football Playoff bowl game.

This is not a must-miss game, but it’s also not a must-watch, so I’m putting it at No. 5. If Kyle McCord’s backup and Brady Cook somehow give us a shootout thriller, I will admit that I was wrong, but I just don’t see that happening.

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