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There are 36 non-playoff bowls
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:30 am
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:30 am
That's 72 teams out of 136 FBS programs, so more than half, playing in these irrelevant games. If we are going to keep bowl games around, we need to have fewer of them. But, what would be better is either a G5 playoff or an NIT style playoff for the next 12 teams. Of course, both of these should be on-campus games and only championship games should be at bowl/neutral sites.
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Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:32 am to Landmass
There's going to be a Great Contractening pretty soon. Probably 1/3 to 1/2 of those irrelevant bowls will vanish
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:33 am to TygerLyfe
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There's going to be a Great Contractening pretty soon. Probably 1/3 to 1/2 of those irrelevant bowls will vanish
There's no way that most of these bowl games are turning a profit.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:35 am to Landmass
Probably a tax write off for the sponsors.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:35 am to TygerLyfe
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Probably 1/3 to 1/2 of those irrelevant bowls will vanish
I’m sure you have a great source at a major TV network giving you that info
. As much as that is what needs to happen it’s not going to happen. 
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:38 am to Landmass
I love bowl games. The opting out stuff messed them up. Before around 2016 when Fournette and a few others started the opting out trend, bowl games were really fun.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:43 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Bowl games used to be great. The week between Christmas and New Year’s was awesome. They are a hard watch now. I’ve put a couple on for background noise and ended up switching to a movie. Couple coming up could be good..Texas-Michigan, Vandy-Iowa. But the if it’s not the playoffs, or it’s not your school, these games have become irrelevant.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:44 am to Landmass
Yep, we've discussed before. The slow blood-letting of college football.
17 back in the 80's when I hoped to compete in one.
Half filled stadiums and being bowl eligible (as Auburn has in past years) has really hurt the sport. Went from having a great season, to a winning season... to finally, 'didn't have a losing season'... LMAO.
Everything is watered down these days.
17 back in the 80's when I hoped to compete in one.
Half filled stadiums and being bowl eligible (as Auburn has in past years) has really hurt the sport. Went from having a great season, to a winning season... to finally, 'didn't have a losing season'... LMAO.
Everything is watered down these days.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 7:45 am to Landmass
Why do we need/want any of them?
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:20 am to Landmass
G5 has a playoff. It's called the College Football Playoff.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:36 am to captainFid
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to finally, 'didn't have a losing season'.
It’s not even that.
We could have gone to a bowl this year at 5-7. That’s a losing season even with a bowl win.
The bowl games have been a quick cash grab. They’ll be cut down pretty hard as capitalism chomps them up.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:59 am to Allthatfades
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Bowl games used to be great. The week between Christmas and New Year’s was awesome. They are a hard watch now. I’ve put a couple on for background noise and ended up switching to a movie
Absolutely loved bowl season when I was in college back in the 90’s. There was no better feeling than winter break- exams were over, no responsibilities, Christmas, sleeping in, and bowl games every day. It was glorious!
Now? With so many bowls, opt outs, and the responsibilities of life, it’s lost its luster.
Sad, really…
Posted on 12/29/25 at 9:13 am to Landmass
Bowl games have always been irrelevant infomercials for the title sponsors.
The only changes are increased access to other entertainment & drastically reduced attention spans
The only changes are increased access to other entertainment & drastically reduced attention spans
Posted on 12/29/25 at 9:25 am to Landmass
Clicked on this expecting to see how Landmass could tie this all back to lsu. I’m surprised
Posted on 12/29/25 at 9:41 am to Landmass
They are still money makers for the cities and TV (Mostly ESPN). If companies stopped buying adds and sponsorship dies out, then yeah.
For comparison, “Pardon the Interruption” is ESPNs highest viewed show with around 675K average viewers. The 2024 Potato Bowl (on Monday 12/23/24 at 2:30pm) with Northern Illinois and Fresno State had 1.32M viewers. Double PTI and lasts 3+ hours generating lots of add revenue.
For comparison, “Pardon the Interruption” is ESPNs highest viewed show with around 675K average viewers. The 2024 Potato Bowl (on Monday 12/23/24 at 2:30pm) with Northern Illinois and Fresno State had 1.32M viewers. Double PTI and lasts 3+ hours generating lots of add revenue.
This post was edited on 12/29/25 at 9:49 am
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