Charlotte football qualifies for a bowl game for the first time ever, and this is their HEAD COACH celebrating. If you think there are too many bowls, you are just wrong.
There are not too many bowl games
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I would say there are too many bowls in regards to making a bowl isn't really that special anymore. However, I'm not one to complain about more football, especially now that sports gambling is legal
Just think if there are too many 6 win teams this year and they don’t get selected. 4, 6 win teams didn’t get picked last year.
I too hate fun and other people’s happiness
Agree, the more football the better to me. I'm one of the sick bastards that watches most of them.
D-1A (or whatever it is now) has more teams now than it did previously, too.
If you don't like em, don't watch them.
I honestly wouldnt care if all 130 FBS teams were allowed to go, if enough bowl games existed for it. There will still always be some prestige in what bowl you are going to, as opposed to just making a bowl. A raw w-l total is a garbage metric for determining postseason eligibility anyway. Plenty of G5 teams that ISU beat at 4-8 or 5-7 made bowls while ISU sat at home simply due to SoS differences.
Why would anyone care how many bowl games there are? Nobody is forced to watch, strapped to a chair with toothpicks prying their eyes open. It is so easy to change the channel. I mean, super easy.
The Iowa State football program would still be stuck in the dark ages if there were only 15 bowl games.
God forbid some 20 year old kids get to play 1 more game after a decent season.
God forbid some 20 year old kids get to play 1 more game after a decent season.
Bowl Games give teams another month of practice and lets fanbases have the opportunity to travel. I don't see anything wrong with that.
You can't put a price tag on the extra practices teams get during bowl season, which also helps drive parity in college football. Take away a bunch of bowl games and the gap between the haves and the have nots only gets wider. Bowls need to drop conference affiliations and go to a true selection order, that would fix a lot of the middle of the road bowl match ups.
I think the additional practices is what helps schools get better - more time with coaches. I think this is what helps G5 teams that go to lower bowls to advance at a faster rate than P5 that don't go to bowl games - I always felt ISU was held back because they didn't get these extra practices for many years. If the NCAA wants to level the playing field allow all schools these extra practices.
To piggy back off of this point, what do teams actually do in during the practices in preparation of a bowl game? Do they separate the team in to two groups, those on the two deep to prepare for the game and those who are younger and do a mini camp? Or do they spend the whole time preparing for the game? Anyone have any insight in to this?
Completely agree with all of this. I would definitely support getting rid of affiliations and use a power ranking to match teams for bowls.
The bowl practices are all about getting the young guys extra reps. I'm sure they spend time on the scheme they want to roll with for the bowl game but for the most part it's for the young guys.
I only watch about 2 or 3 bowls. I literally don't care how many there are.
It seems like everyone would win by getting rid of conference-bowl affiliations. Limiting most teams to the same few locations every year seems to be a great way to generate location fatigue among fans. A bowl is a big commitment for a lot of people. My family had a great time at the Alamo bowl last year, but I can't see us going back in consecutive years. We've got finite opportunities to travel and infinite places we'd like to go. Tough to justify using one of those chances on a repeat trip to SA.
