University of Missouri football Tigers head coach Eliah Drinkwitz walks the sideline during the team’s home game against New Mexico State Nov. 19. This Friday, having barely guided Mizzou to bowl eligibility for a third time in his 3-seasons tenure, Drinkwitz will send the 6-6 Tigers into action against Wake Forest in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, Fla. (L.G. PATTERSON/AP PHOTO)
The bowl season is now three years removed from the last time every postseason game was played. The pandemic whittled the 2020 bowl season down…