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re: Myth: "The BCS/CFP ruined college football by making all other bowl games irrelevant."
Posted on 1/4/21 at 8:51 pm to CaptainMorgan
Posted on 1/4/21 at 8:51 pm to CaptainMorgan
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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?
Add to that, there also used to only be 4 major bowls. Now there are 6. Seeing non conference champion 9-3 teams make the Sugar Bowl is just stupid. Bowls like that used to be reserved for conference champs or top 5-8 at-large teams, not for teams that used to be playing in the Citrus or Gator Bowls.
This post was edited on 1/4/21 at 8:52 pm
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Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:01 pm to lsufball19
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dd to that, there also used to only be 4 major bowls. Now there are 6. Seeing non conference champion 9-3 teams make the Sugar Bowl is just stupid. Bowls like that used to be reserved for conference champs or top 5-8 at-large teams, not for teams that used to be playing in the Citrus or Gator Bowls.
Agreed. I guess the argument could be made that the CFP watered down the non playoff “major” bowls for that years rotation, but we still had UGA-Hawaii and Bama-Utah games before the playoff. Bowl season is a diluted product at this point, from the NY6 down to the mid December games.
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