I don't even know who runs it anymore. There is no governing body to my knowledge right now.
Attendance has made some of the early bowls hard to watch.
Hopefully there’s enough TV revenue to keep them going. I LOVE the cross sectional games of average teams playing for little more than pride. THAT is college football. When guys give their all when they’ve got nothing to gain but bragging rights it leads to some GREAT entertainment. JMO
Man I’ve LOVED flipping on the TV to find random teams on that I haven’t watched all year. I got to see Rhule’s assistant coach TTech. I got to watch Lane melt down going on 4th downs in his own red zone. WTH?
Well, IMO, a 6-6 season being enough to be a bowl eligible kind of seems like a low bar (especially since two of those six wins are usually against non P5 patsies who are essentially coming in to get whipped just for the check). 8-4 to me seems like a more reasonable cut off.
Today’s best game will be Washington and texass in the Alamo..
The Kansas - Arkansas game was an exciting game. Who says that two 6-6 teams playing each other can't be exciting?
You need to add the 5 team play-in to keep it fair... 133 teams in FBS LOL
Of the ones shown 4 for B1G and 5 for the SEC.
The 5 team play-in should occur during week 0. Then the tournament starts during week 1. If you lose, you are out of the tournament, but you can still play other teams that lost for entertainment and pride.
I said this in a post last week. 24 of these games could be played in Cancun, Las Vegas, Honolulu, and San Diego, where fans and the players could have a vacation and the kids could play a little football.
The bowls are located where they are because of local groups or regional tie-ins that organize and promote the bowls with corporate sponsors. Like the Quicklane Bowl is in Detroit because that's where their corporate HQ is. If those other warm weather sites you listed want a bowl I'm sure they're welcome to try and organize something but it's next to impossible because they have to get contracts with conferences. Who, no doubt, are reticent to abandon historical bowls. Shreveport and Mobile aren't just going to step aside because you'd rather go to Vegas.
There is no reason in the world why Quicklane couldn't sponsor a bowl, have all of their commercials on TV during the bowl, but play the game in a full 18,000 fan stadium in Cancun. There are bowls where the sponsors' corporate HQ are not in the same town as the bowl.
Personally I enjoy watching the “meaningless” bowl games as much as the playoffs. I get to watch teams I haven’t seen all year and it seems more like the college football I grew up with.
