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Why do people watch the fourth and fifth tier bowl games?

I'm honestly curious here. I'm not going to bother watching Tulane and UCF, which are both top 25 teams. Why would I watch the Toilet Bowl with 6-6 Bowling Green and 7-5 Southwest Florida Atlantic Barber's College?

They need to kill 2/3 of these stupid games.

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  • whatshouldicareabout
    whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 12,990

    I'm honestly curious here. I'm not going to bother watching Tulane and UCF, which are both top 25 teams. Why would I watch the Toilet Bowl with 6-6 Bowling Green and 7-5 Southwest Florida Atlantic Barber's College?

    They need to kill 2/3 of these stupid games.

    What are you going to watch instead?
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Many happy memories of pretending to work in mid-December whilst streaming the Bahamas Bowel or whatever.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,615 Standard Supporter

    I'm honestly curious here. I'm not going to bother watching Tulane and UCF, which are both top 25 teams. Why would I watch the Toilet Bowl with 6-6 Bowling Green and 7-5 Southwest Florida Atlantic Barber's College?

    They need to kill 2/3 of these stupid games.

    What are you going to watch instead?
    Youtube, Netflix, other tv, read a book, do crap I've been putting off for months
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,615 Standard Supporter
    I haven't bet since last winter, but if I'm going to, I want to at least have a little knowledge and familiarity with the teams. If it's a MAC team versus Memphis or something, there's none.
  • FireTheJanitor
    FireTheJanitor Member Posts: 1,483

    chuck said:

    I'm honestly curious here. I'm not going to bother watching Tulane and UCF, which are both top 25 teams. Why would I watch the Toilet Bowl with 6-6 Bowling Green and 7-5 Southwest Florida Atlantic Barber's College?

    They need to kill 2/3 of these stupid games.

    Because once they're over, there isn't anything else worth watching until April. It's hard...letting go of CFB right as dark winter has set in. I'm depressed just thinking about it.
    Any college football > no college football.
    Coming clean here: I’ve watched none of the shitfest so far outside of part of SJSU playing Eastern Michigan while eating lunch at a bar one day. Some brutal gaymes so far.
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,720 Founders Club
    edited December 2022

    I'm honestly curious here. I'm not going to bother watching Tulane and UCF, which are both top 25 teams. Why would I watch the Toilet Bowl with 6-6 Bowling Green and 7-5 Southwest Florida Atlantic Barber's College?

    They need to kill 2/3 of these stupid games.

    So we that can crush the power 5 teams that lose them.

    Quitter USC vs Tulane in a NY6 is a fucking abortion.
  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,142
    edited December 2022

    Nothing else better to do in my case

    Did you watch Coastal Carolina against ECU in the Birmingham Bowel? If so, you need to take a walk on the beach and get some perspective on where your life went wrong
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937

    Nothing else better to do in my case

    Did you watch Coastal Carolina against ECU in the Birmingham Bowel? If so, you need to take a walk on the beach and get some perspective on where your life went wrong
    I saw Avatar 2 and went to dinner instead
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Nothing else better to do in my case

    Did you watch Coastal Carolina against ECU in the Birmingham Bowel? If so, you need to take a walk on the beach and get some perspective on where your life went wrong
    I watched, and I was GRATEFUL.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,046
    I don't. Both on principle - I don't want to contribute to the viewership - and I too have many other things I'd rather watch and do.

    Rewarding mediocrity with some stupid post-season game is fs. If I were in charge, any team under 9 wins wouldn't be bowl eligible and I'd go back to the non-corporate names, and then only have the Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton and then maybe like the Gator, Citrus, Holiday, Alamo and Peach. 10 bowls, 20 teams and that's fucking it. WFC about anything beyond that?
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,046

    I don't. Both on principle - I don't want to contribute to the viewership - and I too have many other things I'd rather watch and do.

    Rewarding mediocrity with some stupid post-season game is fs. If I were in charge, any team under 9 wins wouldn't be bowl eligible and I'd go back to the non-corporate names, and then only have the Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton and then maybe like the Gator, Citrus, Holiday, Alamo and Peach. 10 bowls, 20 teams and that's fucking it. WFC about anything beyond that?

    ESPN doesn’t give a shit if you watch or not. They have so much air time to fill on their 8 different channels hence the Boca Vista Bowl. 3.5-4 hours of air time filled with bad runs paying ESPN.

    As much as I hate ESPN, I have to remind myself that without them, I’m probably not seeing 70% of the games currently televised.
    So, my vote doesn't count?
  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,142
    I don’t know how anyone could bash the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowel. Any time you have a chance to watch powerhouses like Minnesota and Syracuse play, you have to take it. You just have to.
  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,633 Founders Club
    I’m also looking forward to rooting against FSU today. The hype train for “The job Mike Norvell has done” and Florida States nine wins and if there were a twelve team playoff “no one would want to play the Noles” has been thoroughly annoying. Getting their doors blown off by a 6 win Oklahoma team would be heartwarming. I’ll be watching!
  • EsophagealFeces
    EsophagealFeces Member Posts: 13,142
    This SU-UM game is an abortion of football. The field is such shit. They shouldn’t play the game at Yankee stadium.