The first domino falls

Or at least it is in the process of falling.

2025 will mark the final LA Bowl, referred to this year as the Bucked Up LA Bowl.

FTR, the game will have had four different names in five years.

Another bowl game on it's way out is one that was mildly interesting to watch due to its exotic location and to see a game where there were more on the sideline than in the stands, the Bahama Bowl which this year is not being played in the Bahamas but at an indoor location, the Ford Center located in Frisco, TX under a new name, the XBox Bowl. It is also one of 17 bowls owned by ESPN

So for all of you who bitched about postseason games not part of the CFP being meaningless, here you go, the beginning of the collapse of the bowl games.

It took a few programs (Notre Dame, Kansas State, Iowa State et al) to be sacrificial lambs and decide not to play this year but it worked.

I have said all along the bowl system was overdue for a correction being little more than a conduit for select individuals to exploit college football as way to enrich themselves and if the colleges would stand up to them there could be real change (i.e. the money might actually flow to the colleges instead of the people on the various bowl committees).

Weed out some of the "meaningless" bowls and the ones that remain should see an uptick in interest. Fans will have fewer postseason games to watch and if enough of them fold 5-7 teams won't be rewarded with an extra game and the requisite practice time.

Adios LA and Bahama bowls, we won't miss you.