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68 out of 119

Posted by EyesOfTX on December 23rd, 2008 under Football

This year we have 34 bowl games to pick from.  That means 68 out of the 119 Division IA (or whatever they call it now) schools get to participate in what passes for the “postseason” for major college football.  I find that to be utterly disgusting.

At the New Orleans Bowl a couple of days ago, there were 45,000 EMPTY seats.  This year’s Houston Bowl will be lucky to sell 20,000 tickets, though I’m sure they’ll give another 20,000 or so away in a desperate attempt to make it look like someone actually gives a shit about watching a “bowl” game between Rice and Michigan.  Oops, make that Western Michigan, which I suppose fielded a better team than Michigan did this year, amazingly enough.

The ABC affiliate in Shreveport has a story this morning headlined “Economy Affecting Bowl Game Attendance”.  The story is about this week’s Independence Bowl, of course.  Gee, it’s the economy, huh?  You don’t suppose the fact that the game features a not-so-compelling matchup of Louisiana Tech and Northern Illinois might have something to do with the lack of ticket sales, do you?  Nah, couldn’t be that.

At the end of the regular season, as Texas was getting screwed to the wall by the Big 12 and the BCS, there was lots of discussion about how major college football is now not a hell of a lot different than figure skating, what with “style points” becoming the main factor in determining who plays for the national championship.

This incredible proliferation of bowl games – from 11 in 1980 to more than three times that number 28 years laters - involving well over half the number of teams in Division 1A invites a discussion about the similarities between major college football and your 12 year-old son’s little league. 

There was a time in major college football, just as there was in little league baseball, when receiving awards at the end of the season and participating in the postseason came as the result of excellent play and winning more games than the other teams.  Now, in major college football and little league alike, you don’t even have to win a majority of your games or play particularly well to be rewarded at the end of the season. 

I mean, good lord folks, freaking Notre Dame gets a trip to Hawaii for the non-competitive season they put together.  Iowa is playing in a New Year’s Day bowl.  IOWA!  Their opponent, South Carolina, has just as disappointing and mediocre a season as the Hawkeyes did.  Opposite that thrilling matchup, CBS will televise the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl, which offers viewers the joy of watching two more rank medicrities, Clemson and Nebraska, fight to see which coach gets carried off the field a “winner”.

That’s what all this is really all about, of course, and why this absolute joke of a system gets perpetuated year after year:  Because 68 of 119 major college coaches get to brag to their fan base about taking their team to a “bowl” game, and 34 of 119 get to brag about ending the year as “winners”.  If you had a playoff to determine a real national champion, only one coach would be able to claim the mantle of “winner” when all was said and done.

Meanwhile, for most college fans there are 2 of 34 “bowl” games that have meaning:  the national championship game between Florida and Oklahoma, and whatever game in which our favorite team happens to be playing.

What a great system.

Hook ‘em!!!

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  1. huge said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 am

    most of the shitty bowls lose money dont they?

  2. HenryJames said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:02 am

    But did you see the look on the Rice players’ faces when they found out they were going to a bowl?!

  3. Levander Williams said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:05 am

    Yes.

    This is like participation trophies and not keeping score, because we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Heaven forbid that anyone have their feelings hurt – by God, that’s the only thing that matters anymore.

    I know I sound like a grumpy old man…but back in the old days, making a bowl meant something, and you really needed to win 8 games to qualify. Now, you can qualify if you’re 6-6. That’s not achievement – that’s mediocrity.

    When everyone has something, that something ceases to be special or meaningful.

  4. Vandylove said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:16 am

    You think that Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt built a shipping and transit monopoly by declaring 6-6 and a trip to the music shitty bowl a successful season? Only half my ships sunk this year?! What a success! and for the first time since the early eighties! Pump up the Color me Badd and get out the leg warmers.

  5. SlickStreet said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Like you, Eyes, I’m fatigued by the insane number of bowls out there these days. It seems like, inevitably, you’ll see all but the absolute sorriest teams getting an invite at this pace.

    When I was a kid, there were the Big Four–Cotton (yes), Orange, Sugar and Rose, with the Gator being among the few “second tier” bowls, with perhaps the Bluebonnet included in that mix. You had the Sun Bowl, the Peach and maybe a couple more, and that was about it. It made each bowl really fun to catch, and I sat in front of the TV for all of ‘em. No more.

  6. srr50 said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 am

    It also makes the schools bragging about how many bowls in a row they have been to a joke.

  7. Mike Sherman said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 am

    I don’t think there are enough bowls.

  8. HenryJames said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 am

    The Nazis had mediocre bowls that they made the Jews watch.

  9. intellectual type said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am

    All I want for Christmas, is to see more OU videos like this.

    Crying Sorority Girl

  10. Gene Claude said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 am

    You guys kill me. This is like reading the comments at donaldtrump.com. I suppose it is incredibly painful for the college football bourgeois to have your collective eyeballs singed by the masses struggling before half empty stadia in out of the way locales.

    Or, you could not watch.

    Seriously, as a Missouri fan that faithfully attended games (well, at least the first half of games) throughout the 80s and 90s, I was pretty goddamn skippy that something called insight.com decided to host a bowl game in Phoenix in 1998. I’m sorry the pristine landscape of college football was besmirched for you guys, though.

    Hey…perhaps Texas, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, USC, Florida, Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State could form your own “championship series” where you pit the best of the best against each other in a series of bowl games, maybe letting in the lesser league champions every once in awhile just to showcase their inferiority…wait a minute….this exists???

  11. chicka chicka bow bow said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Who cares? This is not about making sure every team gets a prize. It’s about stupid chambers of commerce thinking they might make money.

    So long as it doesn’t affect my bottom line, I’ll watch the games I want, ignore the ones I don’t want to watch, and play a confidence bowl pool (which has gotten more fun with the larger number of bowls).

    So as long as the Albequerque chamber of commerce thinks it’s a good idea to put on a bowl between middling non-BCS teams, more power to them.

    See ya at the Poinsettia Bowl, suckas!!

  12. Parlin Hall said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Eyes, I’m with Gene Claude on this. More college football is almost always a good thing. And by extending practices, the bowl season also ensures a higher quality of play from year to year.

    I will watch almost all the bowls (even Missouri’s). Surely seeing Hawaii make Weis suffer will be worth watching? And If the Gator Bowl fails to deliver a good product, I’ll write you an apology.

    The market will eventually work this out. I’d be surprised, in fact, if one couldn’t get a line on how many of the 34 bowls will fold by next year.

  13. Gene Claude said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Let’s not go to far…I may not watch Missouri’s. OK, I will, but I promise to be drunk and angry.

    I just think it is a colossal stretch to turn the college bowl system into a metaphor forevery 40+ year old white male’s “celebrating mediocrity” rant.

    And I think Texas fans are particularly ill suited to give a realistic assessment of the values of lesser bowls to a college football program. Sounds like the famed treatise: Marie Antoinette on Cake.

  14. uthookem said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 am

    There were plenty of times that Texas did not make a bowl, so I don’t think this is coming from a “high horse” position Gene Claude.

    Do you really agree that Notre Dame deserves a bowl game?

  15. CloseToJumping said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am

    Most of the bowls make money. Most of the teams within the game do not, directly from the bowl, turn a profit.

    Wetzel wrote a good article on this on Yahoo! over the weekend. You guys should check it out.

  16. Gene Claude said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 am

    What does deserving a bowl game have to do with anything? You aren’t giving them the bowl game; it isn’t a reward bestowed by college football, as chicka noted, it is bestowed by a chamber of commerce. It has zero, nada, none, zilch effect on Texas. This is not the same as introducing a wild card playoff spot in baseball; it has no effect on the legitimacy of the BCS championship.

    I’m not buying this “we didn’t go to a bowl game in 1997, so we feel your pain” crap, either. In the last 40 years, how many times did you not go to a bowl game? 3? 4? That gives you perspective on how exciting it might be to go to a lesser tier bowl for a perennial loser? I imagine in those 3 or 4 years, Texas fans were just fine not going to a bowl game. Try having 1997 for 15 consecutive years. Shreveport starts to look mighty tasty.

  17. Marie Antoinette said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Whither Furniture bowl?

  18. Round Rock said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am

    “Shreveport starts to look mighty tasty.”

    Please don’t forget about me.

    Do I have to host a bowl game to regain your love?

  19. shockthenation said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 am

    I like to watch football. I will even watch the crappy bowls. The offseason is a long one.

  20. Bob in Houston said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am

    I do sympathize to some extent regarding the idea that not everyone should be entitled to a bowl trip… there should be at least an essence of a reward.

    OTOH, I’ve never understood the thinking of college football fans who object to more college football games. I often make this argument in regard to a playoff. A vote could be reasonable, I suppose. But a playoff puts teams on the field for high-quality games that fans can watch. Where is the downside to this?

    So it is with third-class bowls. If I want to watch, I can watch. If I don’t, I won’t. If some go under, that is someone else’s problem.

    “Iowa is playing in a New Year’s Day bowl. IOWA!”

    What was funny about this is that Iowa fans spent much of the pre-selection period trying to argue its way to the top of B10 bowl heap (at least only behind Penn State and Ohio State) in order to avoid playing before Jan. 1.

    The theory was kind of a reverse OU-Texas with a half-twist… that the Hawkeyes (5-3, 8-4) deserved the best spot because they were playing better now — they beat Penn State — than both Michigan State (6-2, 9-3) and Northwestern (5-3, 9-3).

    The fact that they lost to both MSU and Northwestern was deemed irrelevant for the purposes of this argument.

    They managed to stay out of December Bowl Hell, of course, with Northwestern dropping to the Alamo, but they were denied the triumph of passing Michigan State, which beat Iowa, had a better league record, and a better overall record. Facts are stubborn things.

  21. Eric said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 am

    I have no problem with some or even most of the lesser tier bowls, but bowl eligibility needs to be raised to 7 or 8 wins. A 6-6 team getting invited to participate in the postseason is a joke.

  22. Bob Stoops said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Bob in Houston wrote -

    “Facts are stubborn things.”

    Not as much as you’d think.

  23. chitwood said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    For God’s sake, don’t you people gamble?!? This time of the year is heavenly–I can wager on college games damn near every day.

    Maybe I have a problem.

  24. Art Vandelay said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    Gene Claude,

    “legitimacy of the BCS championship”???

    “I may not watch Missouri’s” (Bowl Game)

    I think you just made Eyes point.

    I’ll bet you watch the Tigers if/when they play in March Madness. 40+ year old white male’s playoff rant starting in three….two….one..

  25. Black Scholes said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    “This is like reading the comments at donaldtrump.com.”

    Why would you do this?

  26. Gene Claude said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    I’m a BCS defender. See this. Unfortunately, biologists have confirmed that we no longer have a viable breeding population, so bring your kids and take a gander now before there’s nothing left but stuffed replicas at the Museum of College Football History.

    I am completely joking about not watching Missouri’s bowl game.

    My point is this: The lesser bowl games bring a great amount of pleasure to many fan bases while costing other fan bases absolutely nothing. Plus, they make you guys feel even more superiorier, and give Scip fodder for really funny prose, while simultaneously distracting Shreveoportians from the suckitude of their daily existence. It’s a win-win-win!

    Round Rock, you’ll always have a special place in my soul.

  27. Round Rock said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    I just looked into the idea of hosting an absolutely trivial bowl here sponsored by a third-rate furniture store, a drive-through chicken place, or a fly-by-night Internet phone company, but found out these ideas were already taken.

    Any ideas for a Round Rock bowl game?

  28. Round Rock Bowl said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Sponsored by Chachki’s and Flinger’s.

  29. Gene Claude said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    You should bring back the old tradition of having second tier fruits sponsor your bowl.

    Perhaps the Clementine Bowl, or the Gala Appl Bowl. With the latter, you could pitch gay and lesbian packages, also.

  30. hopefulhorn said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Thanks for the link, ctj. Key piece:

    “The conference commissioners would be dealing with a bigger revenue pie and even larger shares for themselves and their conferences. But they’d have to give up the cutting knife.”

    Heard DeLoss speak to the local Longhorn club on the revenue that a playoff would generate: roughly four times what the current system does. The bowls, conferences and TV networks aren’t willing to give up control of existing revenue even for a shot at a lot more. Their view that a bird in the hand is worth four in the bush is what keeps the existing system in place.

  31. Parlin Hall said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    It is a great article, CTJ, but for me the best part was:

    “My media peers will tell you none of this graft matters, and for some that’s true. They are wonderfully untroubled at the idea of draining a person’s vodka supply by night and ripping them by morning.”

  32. R.C. said:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    As a Baylor grad, I endured more terrible football in my four years as a student that Missouri and Texas combined (I attended from 04-08). But, as much as I hope that Baylor football plays mediocre next year and qualifies for a bowl, I still think too many bowl games exist. I would rather have only meaningful bowl games, even if that means Baylor doesn’t play in one for the next twenty years.

    Just out of curiosity, is there anything the NCAA can do to curtail this problem? (I know, I know, they’re the evil empire, I’m just asking out of curiosity.)

  33. Earl T said:

    December 24th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    Wotta a bunch o’ whiney babies y’all y’all are!

    As the Man said: “More college football is ALWAYS a good thing.” Otherwise we’d be stuck watching only the stumbling Denver Donks blow their season against the Chargers or some such similar dreck from the No Fun League!

    College bowls bring some match ups that we used to see during the regular season until folks like UT and OU decided it was better to pad your record with the likes of Sam Houston State; or matches we would never see cuz Bama and LSU always manage to schuedule nine home games against their local “Southern bretheren” rather than risk a trip outside the “Friendly confines” of Mason and Dixon!

    Deal with it! And enjoy!

  34. HenryJames said:

    December 24th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    “More college football is ALWAYS a good thing.”

    More good college football is always a good thing. I haven’t watched a single Notre Dame or Hawaii game this year, but now that they’re matched in a bowl game I’ll feel compelled to watch? Uh, no. Bad football is bad football.

  35. exuLt said:

    December 24th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    You am a good writer, Gene Claude. Journalism Bowl, indeed.

    I have to say, here here in Canada, where US college football just doesn’t exist in the collective mindset, I’m just hoping against hope that my provider will at least carry the BCS bowls. You all suffer from an embarrassment of riches and don’t appreciate the luxury of having to pick and choose.

  36. Kafka said:

    December 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    One useful thing about all these bowl games is that it facilitates teams from different conferences playing each other. This gives us an idea about how good the various conferences are.

    I love college football so I will watch at least part of maybe half the bowl games. The TCU vs Boise State game last night was interesting, for example (though during the second half of the TCU/BS game I mostly watched the horns beat Wisconsin in basketball).

  37. Macanudo said:

    December 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    ” “More college football is ALWAYS a good thing.”

    More good college football is always a good thing. I haven’t watched a single Notre Dame or Hawaii game this year, but now that they’re matched in a bowl game I’ll feel compelled to watch? Uh, no. Bad football is bad football.”

    What HJ said. I’d like to see the bowl schedule pared back to around 20. There is no reason for a 6-6 team to be in a bowl.

  38. Tim said:

    December 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    ‘OfTexas, nice read but a little more detail would help.

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