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NCAA committee approves 34 football bowl games

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MililaniBuckeye;1170137; said:
Maybe not, but it waters down the value of virtually all the others.


Bingo. It used to be a big deal to make it to a bowl game...now it's nothing.
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It's already watered down - why all the hand wringing over two more games?

I guess the disagreement is a generational thing. I wasn't around for the days when there were only a handful of bowls. Granted, the bowl roster has ballooned even in the almost twenty years that I've followed college football - but there were already so many that I really didn't notice that big a difference.

For me it's simple. More college football = Good.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1170149; said:
Where does it end? When every team gets to play in a bowl game regardless of record?
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Well, right now it ends when you run out of teams that have won six games in the regular season. I think that's a decent place to draw the line. It also ends when the college football watching public fails to pay attention to some of these games. Maybe some of you guys in this thread who disagree with me are the start of that. I guess I'm not.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1170137; said:
Maybe not, but it waters down the value of virtually all the others.
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at what point did the motor city bowl have any street cred to begin with? while the nc game has taken the bcs bowls down a peg, all the other *insert misc. bowl name here* have never been anything worth getting excited over. adding 30 more bowl games doesn't make the alamo bowl any less crappy than it already is. at the top of the heap you have the nc game, the bcs bowls come in a close second, then 30 miles down the mountain in a pit of pond scum you have the "other" bowls. maybe i should value the lower tier bowls more than i do, but i really don't see anything as having changed.

personally, i enjoy some of the match ups that come out of the lower tier bowls. if we're not going to get a playoff system, i say make as many bowl games as the fans will support.

MililaniBuckeye;1170149; said:
Where does it end? When every team gets to play in a bowl game regardless of record?
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realistically, when they can't make money off em. as much as i think it is a good experience and opportunity for the kids and the schools, college football is all about money. this is no different. if the fans will pay enough to watch two 0-12 teams inept eachother to death... someones gonna make a bowl game to feature it.

methomps;1170244; said:
Just remember folks: a four-team playoff would be too much of a burden on academics.
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a 4 team playoff is an additional 2 games for 2 teams. adding 10 new bowl games is an additional 1 game for 20 teams who otherwise would be done after the regular season. im not saying i think 2 additional bowl games be a significant impact on the players. im saying your comparison is a little misleading.
 
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martinss01;1173249; said:
a 4 team playoff is an additional 2 games for 2 teams. adding 10 new bowl games is an additional 1 game for 20 teams who otherwise would be done after the regular season. im not saying i think 2 additional bowl games be a significant impact on the players. im saying your comparison is a little misleading.
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In addition to the 12th regular season game they added a few years ago. We now have 68 teams doing what four years ago was said to be too much a burden for even 2 teams.
 
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martinss01;1173249; said:
at what point did the motor city bowl have any street cred to begin with?
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That's exactly my point. "Way back when", in other words when I was a kid over 40 years ago, there were relatively few bowls and it was a really big deal to make one. There weren't shit bowls like the Motor City Bowl, Poulan Weedeater Bowl, etc. Still, even when there was a small expansion of bowl games, you still had to have a pretty good season to make one (10-2 or 9-3, finishing in the top two or three of your conference). Now, with the bowls now numbering 34, all you have to do is have a .500 season and you're a "bowl team". Fuck that.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
That's exactly my point. "Way back when", in other words when I was a kid over 40 years ago, there were relatively few bowls and it was a really big deal to make one. There weren't shit bowls like the Motor City Bowl, Poulan Weedeater Bowl, etc. Still, even when there was a small expansion of bowl games, you still had to have a pretty good season to make one (10-2 or 9-3, finishing in the top two or three of your conference). Now, with the bowls now numbering 34, all you have to do is have a .500 season and you're a "bowl team". Fuck that.
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do you remember when you couldnt go to back to back rosebowls?

do you remember when big tens didnt always go to the rose bowl?
 
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