I don't care how many bowls there are but I just wish they could nuke how they're ran. Get rid of the guys making millions for setting up a bowl game while a lot of schools lose a lot of money just going to the bowl.
There are not too many bowl games
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I'm guessing those that are saying there are too many bowl games were at the other end of the spectrum when we were nervously hoping just to get that 6th victory some years.
Agree only we didn't get a chance to go to SA last year so would love to go this year or sometime in the future.
I almost feel like the "there are too many bowls games" response is a cliche people spit out without ever even stopping to analyze if that even makes sense or not. They've heard it enough, so it must be a strong take!
Just because certain games don't interest you personally, it doesn't mean the bowl shouldn't exist or doesn't have merit for the host city, the teams, and the fanbases.
I'm not sure if the comment is more selfish or elitist.
Just because certain games don't interest you personally, it doesn't mean the bowl shouldn't exist or doesn't have merit for the host city, the teams, and the fanbases.
I'm not sure if the comment is more selfish or elitist.
Are they still doing the humanitarian bowl? That’s one bowl that definitely needs to be cancelled.
Give me all the bowl games, but send conference affiliations with bowls to the sun. Come up with a process where any bowl can host any school.
There are people who complain about more college football, and those people are wrong.
I can tell you players from ISU enjoyed the Boise experience more than they enjoyed the Shreveport experience the year prior.
Details?
There were just more activities in Boise that all members of the team could do. I believe one day they went snow mobiling.
Shreveport there was really nothing to do unless you were old enough to go to the casinos.
Thanks, just curious as to what the players got to do as most of us weren't/aren't talented enough to experience it!
I probably watch the top 12 or 15 bowl games and stop after that. I don't care about Charlotte and Middle Tennessee State playing in some podunk bowl in a podunk stadium in Birmingham or Montgomery.
If they want to play them that's fine, so I'm not in the "there are too many bowls" camp, but my level of interest drops off significantly after the top tier games.
If they want to play them that's fine, so I'm not in the "there are too many bowls" camp, but my level of interest drops off significantly after the top tier games.
But then Iowa wouldn't get a New Year's Bowl for being the 7th place BIG team...
Yeah it's one thing to question adding more teams/games to the NCAA tourney, but that's a tournament.
These are just football games.
I think there's some bowl pools out there that make it more interesting. I know some people who bet $5/game so they have to do some homework and really pay attention.
I wasn't there for Boise, just going by what friends told me. But I was there for Shreveport.
I will say in Phoenix (2000) one night a bunch of us went to a fancy club in Scottsdale, as we were getting out of the shuttle van security was hauling out some Oregon st. players who started a fight inside (OSU was playing ND in the Fiesta Bowl a few days after our game).
That's why you need to get in a bowl game pool or make a small wager on those games to make it a bit more interesting.
