Big college football changes

RaceBannon said:

When I grew up the PAC 8 got one bowl bid to the Rose and we were THANKFUL for it even though USC or UCLA always went with a brief Stanford dynasty of two years. Even back then leagues other than the Big Ten or Pac 8 had nothing that great to protect so they let everyone go. That got the southern bowls like the Gator Bowl going.

NBC started the New Years day tradition of the Sugar, Rose, and prime time Orange Bowl in the 60's. But other bowls did exist. The WAC started the Fiesta Bowl around 1970 to give ASU a bowl game which turned out to be the BYU bolw game

One thing we do great in this country is take a good thing and expand it to death.

In 1975 when the Pac and Big Ten eliminated the champion only clause it was a big deal. Oddly enough the Rose was still the first bowl the Huskies made. The Sun Bowl in 79 was big against Texas. The minor bowls weren't quite as minor then and I always looked forward to any bowl the DAWGS made. Hell we played Bama in 86

The playoffs were always going to damage ALL bowls among causal fans and now even more rabid fans. The Rose isn't quite the same when you miss the playoffs. It just isn't

Life goes on