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Having 35 bowl games is what made the vast majority of bowl games irrelevant.

There needs to be a dozen bowl games, that’s all. Get it back to where making a bowl means something. Like it used to be.

This is absolutely true. 70 teams going bowling, often with losing records or near losing records, is silly.

I think a 10 game regular season starting either the last Saturday in August or the first Saturday in September depending on the year and ending by mid November and a 32 team tournament is the fix.....16 of those teams would be eliminated in the first round.....another 8 in the second and another 4 in the third. It'd be over by for almost everyone by Christmas even with a bye week during the season and another during the tournament. We saw this year scheduling doesn't requires years of planning simply a desire to schedule a game. It would eliminate conference title games so it will never happen but it would allow for a 8 game conference schedule, one regular non conference rivalry like UGA/GT and one rent a win during the regular season, with a BYE, and and end to the season for everyone with the same number of games for the 2 finalists and fewer games for 2 semifinalists who played in a conference championship game....and would produce some good matchups in weeks 2 and 3. Far more compelling than most bowl games and non conference games currently played. It seems simple but it ain't ever going to happen.