re: Better times in College Football nostalgia thread

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One of the better traditions that has fallen off is looking forward to a bowl game, no matter its location, against an opponent your team hadn't played much if ever. They were more or less meaningless but not in the same way they are now. It was a big deal if your team made a bowl game.

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definitely. One thing I vehemently disagree with though is that teh CFP caused the shift away from this. People say "well if you didn't make hte playoffs/top 4, what's there to get excited about a menaingless bowl game?" but I mean nothing has changed in that regard. In the BCS if you weren't int he top 2 you had "nothing to play for" besides a bowl game. Prior to that if you weren't one of the top handful of teams playing in a major high profile bowl you had no chance at being national champion so why get excited about the bowls? The real problem is with the current generation of players. Every 18-21 year old playing CFB these days was born post-2000. They've been born with a phone in their hand and are used in INSTANT gratification AT ALL TIMES. In addition of course to growin up on social media where it's me, me, me, me all the time. So now that these young entitled people don't make the playoffs we do get that thinking of "well what's left to play for" but the 18-22 year olds of the previous generations still very myuch appreciated the opporunity for what it was.

It's a cultural/generational problem, not a CFB problem. On that topic specifically I mean.