re: The new “opt out” bowls

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The bowl games are as relevant as they’ve always been. Historically only one or maybe two games had national championship implications. The rest of them were just fun matchups and a way to cap off the season.

I don’t know what caused this apathy about bowl games but it’s a fairly recent thing. There have been scores of players going to the NFL who still opted to play in “irrelevant” bowls going back as long as there have been bowls and the NFL.

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The apathy is due to fans realizing that bowls are meaningless. As is the regular season when your team is eliminated from the playoff. Couple this with defense being meaningless and the fact the game is a throwback to a different era where athletic contests were attractive past times and seen as a test between men of different regions competing out of pride for their school and state and not as a stepping stone to a career in the nfl and sports across the board are losing fans left and right.....

CFB is also suffering from the fatigue of 3 - 4 schools always playing for a title.......and one of those doing so this year with only 6 games being played. Most fans look at OSU in the playoff and realize that games are meaningless......they are and always have been.....and all that matters is what the press sees in August. 2019 LSU is an outlier....if that sort of thing happened more often folks would be intrigued.....but people have many choices of what they do for entertainment today and the same tired drama every season is not attractive like it was