How many years before bowl games go away? With transfer players and those going to NFL opting out of bowls I don’t see the major sponsors sticking around. Certainly not at the current level.Fan interest isn’t going to improve either. Look at the Orange Bowl, it was potentially a great game yet the stands are maybe half full.
Damn near the entire offense, and a couple defensive stars. This entire bowl season has been full of boring, lame games due to transfers and opt-outs.
14 fsu starters didn’t play. UGA was missing 3 I believe. If you’re using this game to prove some sort of point you’re delusional.
If you believe that today's result would have been substantively different with both squads at full strength, YOU'RE the delusional one here.
As a guy from (& still in) MO, with two boys who went to Mizzou, I’m so glad they won the Cotton Bowl! M-I-Z Z-O-U!!!!
All 3 of our local teams won. Good chance that’ll happen again next season from what I saw. As long as KState beats KU during the regular season. I still feel the disappointment of the walkoff field goal MU kicked. Ugh
The "portal" bullshit needs to wait till bowl season is over. Otherwise make it flag football for all the pussies.
The respective number of players who chose to sit out on each team says something about the strength of their programs. Culture counts. And anyone who thinks Georgia is not a top four team is insane.
How does the NCAA go about setting the "naming" price for any bowl game not connected to the playoffs when no top players want to be there?
A great example has been the rose bowl for years. It's the oldest, sure, but that's all it has going for it. When not part of the playoffs, it's not an open bowl. It's a locked-in bowl, so nobody outside of the two conferences has cared about it one bit. And for the last what, decade or so, the Big 10 hasn't cared about it either. It's a glory game for the PAC, because their champion isn't good enough for the four-team playoffs (including his year, even though Washington slipped in), so they treat it like a big deal. The Big 10 looked at it as a consolation prize. Whatever team got roped into it had all kinds of players sit out. Of course, they still beat the PAC champ because I mean, who doesn't? But the point is, the bowl season is completely meaningless outside of the "playoffs". I'm hoping the expanded 12 team version will finally kill it off. It would make far more sense to have bowls as a preseason game than an afterthought game where teams are entirely different than they were during the season with transfers and opt-outs.
Bowl games were a reward for a good season and an opportunity to play another team that they normally would not play. Those days are long gone and money has completely ruined what was the best sport in the world. We'll see how this complete shit show turns out in the next couple of years...but it has losing its attraction for me very quickly.
This alone is what will change the current system. If enough people stop paying money and attention it will get fixed in a hurry.
