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With 35 choices, what bowl game was considered the best of them all? This list ranks 'em all Arkansas State players celebrate their 23-20 win over Ball State in this year's GoDaddy Bowl at Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium. The game was tabbed as the seventh-best bowl game of the season in a CBS Sports.com ranking of the 35 bowl games. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

-- Not only was the the bowl game with the most at stake, it was also the best of the 35 bowl games played this season. At least that's the opinion of of , who ranked each of the games in order based on the games and how they played out.So when Florida State made its late drive against Auburn to win the national title game, it earned the game the No. 1 status from Fornelli as well.The Orange Bowl, featuring Clemson's win over Ohio State, was No. 2, followed by the wild Chick-fil-A Bowl in whgich Texas A M staged a big second-half comeback for the win. The New Mexico Bowl, featuring Colorado State's comeback win over Washington State, was No. 4, and the Sugar Bowl, with Oklahoma beating Alabama, earned the No. 5 ranking.Mobile's , which found Arkansas State making a late drive to beat Ball State and win the game for the second straight year, was voted the No. 7 bowl game. Birmingham's , with Vanderbilt topping Houston, earned the No. 22 spot in the rankings.