How can they fix the bowls?

That’s it. It’s become a scrimmage. Bowls should be played in preparation for next year. Maybe even move them to the end of spring practice.

Only players for the following season should be involved.

I don't think there is a way to fix it. However, I would move the minimum number of wins to 8 and cut the number of bowls from 43 to 25. This wouldn't fix opt outs, but you would hopefully get better match ups.

The other option is within a NIL contract putting a stipulation that the player barring injury must complete the season, including post season games.

How many teams were significantly affected by opt outs. All I can thing of are FSU and A&M. Otherwise, it’s been a good bowl season.

There are way too many bowls as we all know. The majority of them need to go away as they serve no purpose and most of the time there are more than enough empty seats.

The NY6 Bowls don’t even make sense going forward as you can win two in the same Playoff. I just say get rid of the NY6 altogether but still have those NY6 stadiums as the permanent sites that rotate each year in the quarters and semis.

I still think the NY6 should be involved if the bowls were to stay. The quarterfinals can rotate between the six NY6 cities without being called the actual bowl game. Once the semifinals occur, those can be the two named NY6 bowls like we have now. In the same bowl season, have the other NY6 games played on a different day, preferably a week apart.

Overall, eliminate the majority of the bowls and keep just a few in which programs that just missed out on the CFP can still, hopefully, play competitive and meaningful games.

2024 Postseason (CFP)
- First Round (campus site)
- Quarters (NY6 Site, not the Bowl)
- Semifinals (Rose and Sugar)
- CFPNCG

Non-CFP
- Fiesta, Cotton, Peach, Orange

Remove the other bowls. They serve no purpose.

Have the four non-CFP bowls played the weekend prior. The following weekend, start the CFP.

Bowls with group of 5 teams are the only ones worth watching.

The bowl games will be the playoffs

If watching the SEC hold their own [thanks Kentucky] or kick other conferences arses is wrong, I don't want to be right.

PS - Then there is AU.


Seriously though, in the age of NIL, transfer and hearing from a scuzzy agent, that he has a friend, who knows a player who was hurt in a bowl game and it impacted his NFL chances --- this has become a problem. Add to it, increasing the number of bowl games from 17 to 35 in twenty years. Time to reduce that back to a reasonable number in the playoff era.

That might work. They are spring scrimmages now.

You don’t need to fix the bowls, you just need to live in reality instead of fantasy land.

1. If “your QB” is already signed with a different team, then he isn’t “your QB” and your best remaining player is not your backup. This is not hard to understand. You just need to pull your head out of your arse.

2. Coaching, recruiting, and culture matter more than ever. If you assemble a team full of babies wearing their initials in diamonds, you may have a shot at a NC, but also don’t be surprised when they quit on you. It’s a gamble.

That being said, you can forget anything I said about Michigan. I hope Bama wins by 50. They seem to be the only team who understands this era.

Eliminate opt outs.
Move transfer portal to after bowls.