You can thank the despicable NCAA for just about everything nasty in college sports. From everything to allowing penises in women’s locker rooms to bringing the west coast colleges into the Big Ten, puke.
Bowl games for the big schools has now become passé with the new playoff system but a status payoff for the smaller colleges. These these kids graduate and go on to other bigger opportunities in their lives but take their bowl game(s) for life with them. For an example for us local people the Western University Broncos or the Bowling Green Falcons, priceless!
Yep, team and school loyalty. The TP and NIL have destroyed that.
For many jocks, there is no life after the bowl game. That was it.
Its the college presidents more so the NCAA, which is a sh!t organization. But when the presidents got involved in major decision making back in the early 90’s, that’s when it wall started to change.