Best-bets for Dec. 28: bowl barrage and “SWAT” stuff

1) Football. Eight bowl games are packed into one day, including three with top-25 teams. ESPN has games at 11 a.m. and 2:15 and 5:45 p.m., then Army (ranked No. 22) and Louisiana Tech at 9:15. ABC has ones at noon, 3:30 p.m. — with Miami (shown here, No. 13) and Iowa State (No. 18) — and 7:30, with Colorado (No. 23) and Brigham Young (No. 17). CW has a 4:30 game. Read more…

1) Football. Eight bowl games are packed into one day, including three with top-25 teams. ESPN has games at 11 a.m. and 2:15 and 5:45 p.m., then Army (ranked No. 22) and Louisiana Tech at 9:15. ABC has ones at noon, 3:30 p.m. — with Miami (shown here, No. 13) and Iowa State (No. 18) — and 7:30, with Colorado (No. 23) and Brigham Young (No. 17). CW has a 4:30 game.

2) More sports. Lest we think there aren’t enough sports choices, CW precedes its bowl game with college basketball (noon and 2 p.m.) and follows it with a wrestling rerun (8). More basketball is on CBS (2 p.m.), Fox (1:30, 4 and 8) and beyond.

3) “SWAT,” 8 p.m., CBS. In a rerun, a sniper is terrorizing Los Angeles. Also, Tan questions his leadership skills; on the lighter side, Powell and Alfaro try a game of “SWAT tag.”

4) “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place,” 9:55 and 10:30. In the first rerun, Billie temporarily transfers her power to Roman; in the second, she has a visitor from the wizard world. They’re preceded by “Cinderella” (2015), a gorgeous film directed by Kenneth Branagh.

5) James Bond or Indiana Jones. Choose an action hero and watch his first three films. Bond? BBC America has “Dr. No” (1962) at 2:30, “From Russia With Love” (1963) at 5, “Goldfinger” (1964) at 7:30. Indy? Out of order, the Paramount Network has “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) at 5:30 p.m., “Last Crusade” (1989) at 8 and “Temple of Doom” (1984) at 11.

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