Boy I haven’t really ranted in a long time. But thanks to ESPN.com’s Bruce Feldman, you will be treated to one this morning. Why? Because Feldman is a busch league college football columnist. Feldman and Mark Schlabach released their pre-season bowl projections. A silly thing, I’m sure they’ll tell you, but it’s gets idiots like me to post about it, so I guess they win.

Anyway, the SEC has NINE bowl tie-ins and Feldman has UK listed for ZERO of them. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. And Feldman’s mistakes start at the top. His BCS championship game? Southern Cal. Versus Missouri. You had at me at hell no.

The sad thing is I like Missouri and Chase Daniel. But those boys won’t even win the Big 12. Feldman has Auburn in the Feista Bowl (vs. Pittsburgh) and Florida in the Sugar (vs. BYU, or Hawai’i redux). He has Ole Miss making the Liberty bowl. I’m OK with that. It’s possible. And forget about the Music City bowl, who broke an unwritten rule about taking a team in consecutive years already. But surely the PapaJohns.com or Independence bowls Bruce. Nope.

Arkansas likes the pizza bowl, Croom like independence. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Luckily, Schlabach slides UK into the Independence bowl against Oklahahoma State. I’m down with that. Not really, but it’s a third straight bowl.

I don’t know what ESPN did why Ivan Massel, who is much better at this bowl projections than Feldman. And that’s saying something. Feldman = busch league projections. Maybe you were going to the shake ups, the reaches. You win then Bruce.

But I think you actually believe Missouri will make the NC, BYU will crash the Sugar and Clemson can win the ACC. And I think you don’t watch college football.

I was going to wait a little bit before getting all worked up about UK’s chances to go bowling for a third straight year in football, but ESPN has left me no choice.

You see, College Football writer Mark Schlabach has released July bowl predictions to help keep people like me sane. And he has the Wildcats going to Mobile to take place in the newest SEC bowl (but not a new bowl altogether) the Papajohns.com bowl.

The good news: UK will be in a third straight bowl game. They would face a Big East opponent (Mark says Rutgers).

Bad news: The bowl is named after a website.

Now, the addition of the bowl gives the SEC nine tie-ins. I’m not quite sure if this is the ninth spot, but I doubt it since the Liberty Bowl projection has Ole Miss and the Independence Bowl has Mississippi State. I’m thinking this Papa John’s bowl jumped to the 7th best team in the conference. Or so I hope.

Of course, little brother Louisville is back bowling too in the International Bowl. Big East vs. MAC. The bowl may be closer in date to the BCS bowls, but you’d be playing in Canada. Not an upgrade.

Also, I went back and looked, this is the same match-up Phil Steele predicts. A bowl is a bowl right? Only if there’s free pizza!