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Are Bowl Games Becoming Meaningless?
ChillyDawg
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Back in 1985 we had a total of 18 bowl games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985–86_NCAA_football_bowl_games with then ending on January 1st with the Rose, Cotton, Fiesta, Sugar & Orange bowls.
In 2021-22 we have over 40 bowl games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–22_NCAA_football_bowl_games .
Nowadays it has turned into nothing more than a corporate sponsorship parade of bowl games full of teams with barely over .500 season records. The bowl season has been watered down and diluted.
In the past it was a badge of honor for a successful football season. Today it's just another corporate sponsored mass production assembly line event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PyfXAkQY-c
ESPN College Football: Mark Schlabach joins The Paul Finebaum Show to discuss Mike Leach and Texas Tech, the state of bowl games and more.
In 2021-22 we have over 40 bowl games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–22_NCAA_football_bowl_games .
Nowadays it has turned into nothing more than a corporate sponsorship parade of bowl games full of teams with barely over .500 season records. The bowl season has been watered down and diluted.
In the past it was a badge of honor for a successful football season. Today it's just another corporate sponsored mass production assembly line event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PyfXAkQY-cESPN College Football: Mark Schlabach joins The Paul Finebaum Show to discuss Mike Leach and Texas Tech, the state of bowl games and more.
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Slick Rick on Mitch's podcast a couple weeks back predicts that bowl games will eventually become the non-conference schedule the first 2-3 weeks of the season. Interesting idea.
The cancelations and lack of anyone outside of the teams getting fucked caring should finally deal the death blow. I assume a new plan for next season is already being worked on. That's probably a bad assumption. They probably assembled a brain trust of Jenn Cohens to figure out how to overercome the apathy and sell the bowl games better. In other words more of the same.
But basically once James got rolling the minor bowls we? went to were meaningless
Rose Bowl or bust
The change today is the devaluation of the Rose 🌹
I didn't watch NFL for about 10 years, after hearing an announcer say "In today's game, Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke, Tommy Nobis would all be out of the game on 3rd and 5 or more, for an extra defensive back"...Fuck that, players play, and winners win, so I'm told...I'm going to go check on the mail now, and then take a nap...
I'd try reducing to a total of four bowl games and make it the quarterfinal round. Or a max of eight and make it the second round. You'd get better matchups and better games, and make the surviving bowl games that much more meaningful and fun, if it was the round of 8 only.
Making the semis bowl games means there are two meaningful bowls. Making it the quarterfinals means there are 4. Thats my thinking. I'm not saying it's creative or brilliant and won't satisfy everyone, but I think it's a simple solution that would work.