NCAA Approves 32 Bowl Games for Next Year....

[Big Papa]

Here they are:

The 32 bowls are: Alamo, Allstate Sugar, AT&T Cotton, AutoZone Liberty, BCS National Championship, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces, Brut Sun, Capital One, Champs Sports, Chick-fil-A, Emerald, Fed Ex Orange, Gator, Gaylord Hotels Music City, GMAC, Humanitarian, Insight, International, Meineke Car Care, Motor City, New Mexico, Outback, Pacific Life Holiday, Papajohns.com, PetroSun Independence, Pioneer Pure Vision Las Vegas, R+L Carriers New Orleans, Rose, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia, Sheraton Hawaii, Texas and Tostitos Fiesta.



WTF is the Texas and Tostitos Fiesta?

 

[Silent Nature]

That's actually just Texas Bowl and Fiesta Bowl.

They just didn't use the comma to separate both of them.

 

[IronBuckI]

Texas Bowl and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, I would think.

 

[OSU SPORTS]

Looks like the NFL network will televise some bowl games

http://www.fanblogs.com/bowl_games/006990.php

 

[buckeyefool]

I think they had one or two last year also.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

With 64 teams, it's going to be tough not to eventually include a team with a losing record. You can really no longer hang your hat on having a schedule full of "bowl teams"...

 

[IronBuckI]

I say that we let every team in the country go to a bowl game, and give everyone a fucking participation trophy. That way everyone is a winner.

 

[pianobuck46]

Sure--wouldn't want the little darlings to feel bad! :tongue2:

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:

 

[jlb1705]

I say that we let every team in the country go to a bowl game, and give everyone a fucking participation trophy. That way everyone is a winner.

Bowls are about money first and foremost. Rewarding teams for having a good season is secondary to that. The money that conferences earn from bowl games goes to the athletic departments and helps fund non-revenue sports. In that regard, any expansion to the bowl lineup is a good thing.

As a fan, I don't really care who's playing, and apparently neither does a significant segment of the viewing public. They wouldn't be adding more bowls if they weren't making money, and they also wouldn't be adding games to the season or finding ways to have football games on Tuesdays. I don't care if it's two 6-6 teams squaring off in a bowl. That doesn't mean it won't be an entertaining game, and it's often a chance to bring together two teams that would not otherwise ever square off against each other.

 

[Zurp]

I say that we let every team in the country go to a bowl game, and give everyone a fucking participation trophy. That way everyone is a winner.

And give the Big East a bunch of games against teams like Akron A&M, Buffalo School for the Blind, and Pittsburgh School of Fine Arts, so they can show off their kick-ass bowl record, again.

I don't mind more bowl games. Bowl season only comes once a year. Let me watch some bowl games without hearing people whine about who is actually playing in the bowl games.

Unfortunately, though, the more bowl games there are, the less likely it will become for Michigan to finally snap their 100-year streak of playing in bowl games.

 

[sandgk]

Remember the stance taken by Florida's President Bernie Machen in favor of a playoff system last year?

Now, he is back in the BCS camp - which dismays the fun-loving Gordon Gee.

Florida president offers, then backs off, playoff proposal
By MARK LONG, AP Sports Writer
June 1, 2007
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) -- Florida president Bernie Machen backed off his playoff football proposal after conferring with colleagues at the Southeastern Conference's spring meeting.
Machen decided it's better to work within the confines of the current Bowl Championship Series system.

"What we learned today from my colleagues is that we see the world pretty much the same way," Machen said Friday on the final day of the annual meeting. "We see the problems in the current system.
"They are persuaded, and I am now persuaded, that the best way to proceed is to try to work within the BCS structure, to make some changes to make it better. That seems to me to be a very good way to go."



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Vanderbilt chancellor Gordon Gee didn't like the message the proposal sent.
"We've been consistent all along that we're trying to bring some semblance of integrity and some semblance of balance back into what we're doing, and this moves in exactly the wrong direction," Gee said. "This is a slippery slope toward us finally just throwing in the towel and saying what we're about is fielding football teams and we have a university on the side, and I'm just not in favor of that."