Posted on 10/07/2017 9:58:39 PM PDT by 11th_VA
I’m with you. I think the playoffs ruined College football.
It’s a new variant of the Everything Is For Sale Bowl.
Overexposure is a problem.
I think it was about twenty years ago I read that there were 122 teams in division IIA and 29 bowl games that year.
I have hardly watched any college ball the last five years and stopped watching NFL probably seven years ago.
It used to be the Gator Bowl, I believe.
Good points. Comparisons of attendance figures at bowl games over time don’t really make sense. For one thing, you had to be a conference champion just to get invited to some of these bowl games (SEC for Sugar Bowl, Big 10 and Pac 10’for Rose Bowl, etc.). Secondly, you have so many stupid bowl games these days that it seems like every Division I team with six wins gets invited to one.
Missouri alums don’t want to watch snowflakes who might boycott practice. They are poorly coached because no decent coach would go there after the protests.
The bowls are a scam. The schools are FORCED to buy the tickets. The only reason college teams go to the lower tier bowls is it allows them 6 extra weeks of practice and they get ahead for next year.
They are expensive, game tickets, airfare, hotels, food plus just things in general when you are there gets pricey quick. Then depending on where you go, you are surrounded by obnoxious drunk foul mouthed people, ruins the experience.
No, they want every last buck. Also when they pan the crowd they want to show advertisers (not sponsors) this is a popular game.
The reason they went to playoffs is that TV ratings were declining...I think the playoffs helped for a couple of years but now they can’t raise the ante.
But the students have class the next day!....
/sarc
If in Jax then it’s orobably the Gator Bowl successor
Which used to be one of the few bowls in the Sixties
Bingo -- We have a winner. Hard to get excited about an 8 and 5 team playing a 7 and 6 team unless you have some connection to the college, and even then... Slash the number of bowl games in half and stop rewarding mediocrity and attendance will roar back.
Most of the bowl games are for strictly for entertainment value as to serve as the last chance to get the football fix before the only thing left is the NFL playoffs.
I suspect it is because there are too many bowls and the number seems to grow each year..
Are there any sum totals of all bowls, year by year, to compare?
Anything associated with Camping World will be ignored by our household.
I happened to catch a half-time Temple University advertisement for the school.
They bragged that one of the great attributes of the university was that it was teaching the students to advocate “social change”.
Yup—a change is coming—and they are not going to like it.
Bingo.
Kutztown and Villanova bump
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