The problem with the playoffs is now it’s “Playoffs or Bust”, and once a team in out of the running, nobody cares.
It used to be winning your Conference Championship alone made for a great season, but now that’s not enough. Plus the sense that it’s always going to be the same teams every year, it’s just a matter of who Bama gets to play in the Championship Game.
Meanwhile, they are stripping away the traditions that made College Football great.
Overexposure was already a problem, even before the kneeling.
Too many post season bowls.
>>The down side of diversity ... I have a feeling these colleges don’t have a clue ... good news for those wishing the demise of NFL football though !!! <<
Agreed. Just look at what entailed at the University of Missouri — a big drop-off in the fan base.
Since most of the bowls now have corporate sponsors, as well as the big contracts from the networks, the organizers could care less if they played in front of 5 people or 50,000 people. I'm sure that they still get their cash.
In all likelihood, the organizers prefer the smaller live crowds, saves on overhead of personnel required to feed and secure us unwashed masses.
I never heard of the TaxSlayer Bowl growing up.
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.
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.
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.
dumb article....go back decades and you’ll see many of the minor bowl games with stadiums more than half empty...problem is the post season schedule is saturated with too many bowl games...
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Can’t judge college football by bowl attendence. College fans don’t travel well to bowl games that are far from home. I was at the 1985 Orange Bowl between Washington & Oklahoma and the crowd was on 57,000+/-.
Football games with thin crowds will be televised with close tight shots to make it appear stands are full and will hold shots to just the playing field where stands are not shown.
There are a lot of bowl games these days not a fair barometer when I was young there was sugar cotton orange rose liberty and gator
Then fiesta came and the floodgates opened
College is all we watch now
Geaux and Tide
I was in Gainesville yesterday
On way back to Nash now
It was so hot
93 temp and humidity
It ain’t called the swamp for nothing
Row one right behind tigers def line bench
I’ve never bought row one seats and The Swamp is perfect for that
The bench is right there like 5 feet in front of you
Just enough room for Coach O’s pretty Wife and Allie LaForce of CBS to walk back and forth
Had three high school football player boys with me
It was fun but I was literally soaked with sweat
too many bowl games. Is there 30 now? Half of division 1 goes to a bowl game.
This article is from JANUARY 2017....long before the recent NFL thug’s disrespecting our flag/anthem.
Are there any recent college football game attendance records to update this ‘news’?
There are also too many bowl games. The playoff system has the junkies clamoring for 8 teams instead of 4. Where will it end?