re: Myth: "The BCS/CFP ruined college football by making all other bowl games irrelevant."

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Over the last 20 years it became more about who was #1 than it did anything else. Less attention was paid to the other bowl games as a result. Now they are all but irrelevant.

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Since when has any sport not been about winning? What team doesn’t want to finish #1 when they start their season? I’d disagree that it has anything to with the competitive nature of the sport and point to the fact the we now have 40 bowl games, many of which have been added in your 20 year time frame. A bowl game used to mean something. Now, when you’re an NFL prospect, who cares about playing in the weed eater bowl for a 7-6 team?

There have been other changes in player’s perception of their value and an increase in awareness of the gains/losses they expect from an NFL future due to an injury in an exhibition, but bowl season lost its luster when it became a watered down, uninteresting, money grab for the networks trying to show as much football as possible.