Bowl system will never be good again.

[RocknRollface]

Even the least forward of thinkers should be able to see this system has run its course.

People who still like the bowl system like it because of nostalgia, but can anyone honestly say they enjoy this anymore? If I could sum it up in one word it would be meaningless.

Its gotten progressively and even exponentially worse every year.

Im sure we will have to sit through 10 to 15 more years of this slow agonizing death untill absolutely no one is paying attention. But make no mistake it is unsalvageable.


Once they started tinkering with the conferences and the BCS, that was the end of the old. You can't go back, its over.

Bring on the rest of conference realignment, conference championship games and then a playoff.

 

[GhostofBTT]

Alright, who's been bumping threads from 2007?

 

[FML]

yeah, unless Iowa is in a big time bowl, most of these games do not get me very excited. College football is the only sport where the regular season is much better than the post season.

 

[hawkfan33]

Yes all the fans and players at the Outback, Rose and Fiesta Bowls sure acted like they were meaningless. No excitement at all from anyone involved in those games.

 

[BSpringsteen]

Yes all the fans and players at the Outback, Rose and Fiesta Bowls sure acted like they were meaningless. No excitement at all from anyone involved in those games.

1. BCS is different.
2. Overtime is a more emotional process.

To think that an Insight win means anything or that a loss means anything is kinda silly.

This is why, when I say I expect 8 wins per season, I'm not counting a bowl game. It isn't relevant to the overall success or failure of a season, unless it is a BCS game.

 

[DwayneTwill]

Screw a playoff.

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Screw a playoff.

Exactly!

Who needs that kind of excitement when you have the Insight or Pinstripe bowls to watch.

 

[DwayneTwill]

Exactly!

Who needs that kind of excitement when you have the Insight or Pinstripe bowls to watch.

Yeah, those are the only two bowls. Good point.

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Exactly! Who needs that kind of excitement when you have the Insight or Pinstripe bowls to watch.

Yeah, those are the only two bowls. Good point.

My point is in agreement with the boss that outside the BCS bowls it is all garbage. Unless you are a fan if one of the schools playing, it is nothing more than a end if season exhibition.

 

[bighawkeyedaddy]

I really wish it would just go back to the old way, with no BCS title game. The New Years Bowl games actually meant something, I could have cared less about the Oklahoma State vs Stanford game, with the old system there were multiple games that effected the national title picture.

 

[hawkfan33]

My point is in agreement with the boss that outside the BCS bowls it is all garbage. Unless you are a fan if one of the schools playing, it is nothing more than a end if season exhibition.

How are the BCS bowls not garbage then too? They are also meaningless exhibitions.

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Because those at least have top 10 implications.

What win/loss implication did the pinstripe bowl have on college football?

 

[hawkfan33]

Because those at least have top 10 implications.

What win/loss implication did the pinstripe bowl have on college football?

Oh top 10 implications, so that must mean the Cotton Bowl, Outback and CapOne bowls all have meaning then too. And the MAACO Bowl as well.

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Great now list the ones that don't and you will get the picture.

 

[hawkfan33]

Great now list the ones that don't and you will get the picture.

Yes I will get the picture based on your arbitrary top 10 requirement. Why is this the top 10 the cut off? Is there some great reward for finishing 10th instead of 11th?

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Great now list the ones that don't and you will get the picture.

Yes I will get the picture based on your arbitrary top 10 requirement. Why is this the top 10 the cut off? Is there some great reward for finishing 10th instead of 11th?

No and that is the point, I think you have almost got it. Bowl games for the most part mean nothing. With a playoff at least you have post season games that matter.

 

[ICHawk24]

Then 2/3 of the regular season games mean nothing. Why don't you ***** about those? Why was the Iowa-Purdue game played? Or ANY Purdue game?

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Then 2/3 of the regular season games mean nothing. Why don't you ***** about those? Why was the Iowa-Purdue game played? Or ANY Purdue game?

Because this is a thread about bowl games and their relevance not if the regular season games of no meaning should be cancelled.

 

[castille]

When you have teams in a bowl game that have 6-6 records, then it's time for a playoff.

 

[HomerChampless]

I was listening to The Champ at noon. Who was the radio announcer? The sportsguy on WOI - Garmin?

Anyway, the sportsguy said he was hoping for a National Championship Game with the excitement of the Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl...
It seems to me, the reason why Alabama and LSU are in the NCG is because of their 'second to none' defenses.

It's a given, there are too many bowl games. They don't mean that much.
Except for the bowl game with your favorite college in it. Except for the 'vacationing' opportunites that come with that bowl game. Except for the monies that come to your favorite school (in the B1G, a school doesn't have to be bowl eligible to get bowl monies).

As long as sports TV networks rake in the dough from these bowl games....
Maybe, there'll be more bowls next year?