If you are not a college football fan, and do not care if you never had a bowl game in your life, you might wonder what all the excitement going. If you have a hot-blooded man in your life, you just ask him.

There will be 34 NCAA bowl games this year and the excitement is all about prestige and in money, much money, as in more than a collective $ 139 million for the participating teams and their respective conferences.

The actual payouts to bowl Reflected down to $ 127 + million, but the actual $ 139 + million figure arise because some additional payments for participating teams on the automatic qualifiers from the six major BCS conferences, the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific 10 and Southeastern Europe.

A team must win to six games to bowl-eligible, according to NCAA standards. Some of the teams qualify automatically receive bowl bids, and others are invited to participate in the lesser bowl games.

Almost every news organization that does publish the bowl game lineups so by the date of the elections, the first (December 19) to the last (the Bowl Championship Series title game on January 7).

I decide to do it this year about the importance of the bowl payout on his first base, and then the prominence of the game on ITS participants. The first five bowl games were listed in the BCS super-prestigious competitions with the largest payouts.

Here’s the complete lineup for the 2009 season (which extends into 2010).

A) $ 17,000,000 – The BCS National Championship Game between Alabama (13-0) and Texas (13-0) on Jan. 7th

2) $ 17,000,000 – Sugar Bowl with Florida (12-1) and Cincinnati (12-0) on Jan. 1st

3) $ 17,000,000 – Fiesta Bowl with Texas Christian (12-0) and Boise State (13-0) on Jan. 4th

4) $ 17,000,000 – Rose Bowl with Oregon (10-2) and Ohio State (10-2) on Jan. 1st

5) $ 17,000,000 – Orange Bowl with Georgia Tech (11-2) and Iowa (10-2) on Jan. 5th

6) $ 4,250,000 – Capital One Bowl with Penn State (10-2) and Louisiana State (9-3) on 1 January.

7) $ 3,300,000 – Outback Bowl with Northwestern (8-4) and Auburn (7-5) on 1 January.

8) $ 3,005,000 – Chick-fil-A Bowl with Virginia Tech (9-3) and Tennessee (7-5) to 31 December.

9) $ 3,000,000 – Cotton Bowl with Oklahoma State (9-3) and Mississippi (8-4) on 2 January.

10) $ 2,500,000 – Gator Bowl with West Virginia (9-3) and Florida State (6-6) on 1 January.

11) $ 2,350,000 – Holiday Bowl with Nebraska (9-4) and Arizona (8-4) on 30 December.

12) $ 2,250,000 – Champs Sports Bowl with Miami, FL (9-3) and Wisconsin (9-3) on 29 December.

13) $ 2,250,000 – Alamo Bowl with Texas Tech (8-4) and Michigan State (6-6 am) 2 January.

14) $ 1,900,000 – Sun Bowl with Stanford (8-4) and Oklahoma (7-5) to 31 December.

15) $ 1,700,000 – Liberty Bowl with East Carolina (9-4) and Arkansas (7-5) on 2 January.

16) $ 1,600,000 – Music City Bowl with Clemson (8-5) and Kentucky (7-5) on 27 December.

17) $ 1,350,000 – Insight Bowl with Iowa State (6-6) and Minnesota (6-6) to 31 In December.

18) $ 1,100,000 – Independence Bowl with Georgia (7-5) and Texas A & M (6-6) on 28 December.

19) $ 1,000,000 – Las Vegas Bowl with Brigham Young (10-2) and Oregon State (8-4 am) 22 December.

20) $ 1,000,000 – Meineke Car Care Bowl with Pittsburgh (9-3) and North Carolina (8-4 am) 26 December.

21) $ 1,000,000 – St. Petersburg Bowl with Rutgers (8-4) and Central Florida (8-4 am) 19 December.

22) $ 1,000,000 – Eagle Bank Bowl with Temple (9-3) and UCLA (6-6) on 29 December.

23) $ 850,000 – Emerald Bowl with Southern California (8-4) and Boston College (8-4 am) 26 December.

24) $ 750,000 – GMAC Bowl with Central Michigan (11-2) and Troy (9-3) on 6 January.

25) $ 750,000 – Poinsettia Bowl with Utah (9-3) and California (8-4) on 23 December.

26) $ 750,000 – Little Caesars Pizza Bowl with Ohio (9-4) and Marshall (6-6) on 26 December.

27) $ 750,000 – New Mexico Bowl to Fresno State (8-4) and Wyoming (6-6) on 19 December.

28) $ 750,000 – Humanitarian Bowl with Idaho (7-5) and Bowling Green (7-5) on 30 December.

29) $ 750.000 – International Bowl with South Florida (7-5) and Northern Illinois (7-5) on 2 January.

30) $ 700,000 – Texas Bowl with Missouri (8-4) and Navy (8-4) to 31 December.

31) $ 600,000 – Armed Forces Bowl with Houston (10-3) and Air Force (7-5) to 31 December.

32) $ 398,000 – Hawaii Bowl with Nevada (8-4) and Southern Methodist (7-5) on 24 December.

33) $ 325,000 – New Orleans Bowl with Middle Tennessee (9-3) year Southern Mississippi (7-5) on 20 December.

34) $ 300,000 – Papjohns.com Bowl with South Carolina (7-5) and Connecticut (7-5) on 2 January.

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

Read more about my football coverage, including:

“Ed Bagley Poll Top 25″ rankings for week 14, you get more humor. Would you believe that Florida is sixth and 23 Southern California rank? Do not laugh out why.