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re: Should 6-6 teams be allowed to go to bowls?
Posted on 8/7/16 at 10:30 pm to Kentucker
Posted on 8/7/16 at 10:30 pm to Kentucker
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Major college football has been held hostage by the bowls for all of its modern existence. There should be no bowls at all.
What? Explain this. How do bowl games hold college football back? Give specific details because this makes about zero sense.
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We currently have 38 bowls that mean absolutely nothing
And? How is that holding football back? That is such an asinine thing to say I don't know where to begin. College football is as popular as it's ever been and you're trying to make the argument that bowls are holding it back.
This post was edited on 8/7/16 at 10:42 pm
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Posted on 8/7/16 at 11:01 pm to UFFan
no
Posted on 8/8/16 at 9:14 am to UFFan
Sure
Posted on 8/8/16 at 9:36 am to UFFan
Here's the reality: bowls are about TV $. They need content = football teams. There aren't enough 7-5 teams to fill all the content so yes they will take 6-6 teams and on a slow weekday evening in December you will have the game on in the background and the cycle will continue. All bowls are truly meaningless except for the playoffs. Even the big bowls don't matter. Ole Miss for example got abused in the Peach Bowl 42-3 by TCU even though they had the highest paid roster in college sports and nobody really cares today. Bowls don't matter except the playoffs.
Posted on 8/8/16 at 9:38 am to pvilleguru
I'm ok with it because I don't have to watch and usually do not. Coaches like it because of the extra practice time. It seems especially a benefit to struggling programs.
Posted on 8/8/16 at 12:41 pm to Porcine Human
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What? Explain this. How do bowl games hold college football back? Give specific details because this makes about zero sense.
I didn't say they were holding it back, you did. Bowls have caused major college football to evolve into something different from other football categories, such as DII and the pros.
The lack of a playoff in major college football has caused us to have to add the word mythical when talking about national championships. We don't know which teams would have been the actual champions.
We have accepted a poll, a vote as to which team was the best in a particular year. No other category has had to do this because they all have had playoffs. They have legitimate champions on the field.
The new 4-team playoff helps but there are powerful teams that develop over the season that still get left out of a chance to prove their strength on the field in a playoff.
My point is that, because bowls have prevented playoffs in major college football, we don't know which were the greatest teams. We can only speculate.
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College football is as popular as it's ever been and you're trying to make the argument that bowls are holding it back.
No, that's your interpretation. Yes, major college football (there are other college football categories - probably a surprise to you) is popular. That's not my point.
It's still the only major sport that doesn't have a true champion.
This post was edited on 8/8/16 at 12:42 pm
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