NCAA approves 3 more bowl games, now 42 bowls
65% of FBS teams will play in a bowl game.
Just let every team go to a bowl at this point.
The worst two in the nation can play in the Pine Bowl in Orono, Maine or at Barrow Stadium in Barrow, Alaska-
The NCAA approved three more bowl games.
One at Texas' DKR Memorial Stadium, Arizona Stadium in Tucson and the Citrus Bowl meaning there will be THREE bowl games at the Citrus Bowl.
Honestly the NCAA a should just allow all schools to hold postseason practice.
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Most of those analyses that say School X lost money on the bowl game completely neglect to mention the bowl game's actual payout; they just ask the school how much they spent on travel and compare it to the bowl's travel allotment.
So how the heck is this better than expanding the NC playoffs from 4 teams to 8. Very few people will watch these bowls vs. 4 more games with top ranked teams battling it out.
Not sure that's a good comparison. Expanding the playoffs to 8 teams means the two excellent teams in the NCG play three more games while expanding the number of bowls simply means 6 more almost crappy teams get to play one more game.
Personally i dont get why people would be bothered by this. To me it's like being pissed because they add more stuff at the Chinese buffet. So what if it's not that great; it's free and you can have as much as you want. And if you don't want it -take something else- nobody's forcing you to eat (watch) all of it just cause it's there.
What an 8-team playoff would mean is that two teams would play two more games, two teams would play three more games and there would be four more berths open for teams to get into the bowls that already exist.
For comparison: North Dakota State, who won the FCS Championship, went 15-1 during 2014-15. I have a feeling that the kids playing for a National Championship won't mind the extra games in the least.
those players are injured in the extra game(s), jeopardizing their professional careers.
Let's ask Willis McGahee for his opinion.
is the continued dilution of the post season bowl system. To the point of team's with losing records or 6-6 records competing featuring mediocre players. As stated by someone else, why not allow all team's to practice after the regular season removing that incentive and then limit the bowls to 20 allowing the top 40 teams in the FBS to compete giving some meaning to the regular season. More is not always better.
The only reason to complain about the extra bowl games is if you care about the college football regular season. Games are not very meaningful if the outcome is to determine who plays in the Old Spice Aftershave bowl or the Doctor Paul Smith Chiropractic Practice Bowl. each bowl game cheapens all the rest by making them even less special, and cheapens the regular season by making games mean less. There is such a thing as too much of a thing. Forty-two bowl game is an example of too much.
I would watch that in a heartbeat. Nothing like a bowl game in a blizzard with polar bears.
Da (Polar) Bears!
the week of Dec 14-18 so that I have something to do at work.
I know we like to say "It's Happening!" lately, especially now that a certain thing has in fact happened, but 42 bowl games? The One Hour Martinizing Bowl is happening.
Fresh as a flower in just one hour!
I don't really care as much as some people do. Two shitty teams playing in early december is better than watching no sports at all.
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a rule that states the teams have to have at least 6 wins to qualify for a bowl game?
bad to not make a bowl these days.
I remember when 6-5 wasn't a sure thing, and crap teams from the mid-majors had almost no shot at a bowl game.
Central was 10-0-1 actually. They tied Toledo 7-7 in the Glass Bowl.
There were only 15 bowl games then and the MAC had no tie in with the bowls. Michigan lost to North Carolina in the Gator Bowl that year when John Wangler suffered a horrific knee injury. tOSU lost to USC in the Rose while Purdue and Indiana (yes, that Indiana) won their bowl games over Tennessee and BYU respectively.
Obama's America.
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Hah almost had me!
Regardless of political affiliation, this is such a dumb and empty statement. You are the perfect example of why we can't speak about politics and such on this board - inflammatory trolling of people/things you don't agree with absolutely no factual basis for your remarks.
So... no one else gonna mention how there's a polar bear chilling in one of the pictures?
There will be more polar bears than people watching that game
I like the novelty of that one. I'm curious enough to tune in.
People may rip on the new bowl games, but there is no better feeling than gettting out of work early on a random Tuesday in Mid-December and being able to watch a LIVE football game.
The CMU game last year at the Bahamas Bowl sticks out. So does the Memphis-BYU game, two teams I knew little about and cared less about, but ended up being an amazingly entertaining game.
Okay!!
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I would watch a bowl game in Barrow
to not get a bowl bid now. . .
...you're saying there's a chance?
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More bowls is NOT a good thing.