Are the bowl games meaningful?

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Sycamore Proud

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If you check the lineups for all 30 bowl games you will find 3 games with both participating teams having 6-6 records, 6 games with one team having a 6-6 record, and one game with a team with a losing record vs a team with a 6-6 record. That is 10 of 30 games with at least one of the teams with no better than 6-6. Do teams with a .500 record deserve to be in a bowl game?

Want to talk about money? Wow, this is unbelievable. UCLA 6-7 and Illinois 6-6 each get a payoff of $837,500. Nine teams with .500 records get a million dollars or more. The Gator Bowl will pay Ohio State and Florida, each 6-6, $2,700,000 each. On the other end of the $ spectrum TCU at 10-2 only gets $500,000 for their appearance in the Poinsettia Bowl with with 8-4 Louisiana Tech.

I know, really I know it's all about the following each team can bring to the cities involved. But really, don't you think this is borders on the bizarre? I can remember when being in a bowl game met you have a darned good football team. The almighty $$$ raises it's ugly head and wins again.

Check this site if you want more info on the games:

http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/bowl_games_bowl_schedule.html
 

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It's more about giving teams another game and more practices than anything for most of the non BCS games. I love watching college football more than any sport out there and can watch about any team play but 30 plus games is insane. Especially when you have teams like the Illini making a "bowl game" with a 6 game losing streak..lol...
 
I'm not picking on any one school. But I did find the Cheerios line most humorous. I strongly feel that to be bowl elgible a school must have a WINNING record. One game above .500 isn't to much to ask to be considered an upper echelon team is it? I just hate to see mediocrity rewarded like this.
 

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Who's at fault?

Sycamore Proud said:
I'm not picking on any one school. But I did find the Cheerios line most humorous. I strongly feel that to be bowl elgible a school must have a WINNING record. One game above .500 isn't to much to ask to be considered an upper echelon team is it? I just hate to see mediocrity rewarded like this.
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The bowl committees and 'city fathers' who develop the bowl?

The NCAA for certifying it?

The schools for accepting the bid?
 
Sackalot said:
The bowls are pointless, meaningless and dumb! Without some form of playoffs it means next to nothing.
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It seems to me that this lineup of bowl games is LESS appealing to me than the past five years of so. Look at last night's game between Florida International and Marshall. The game wasn't all that bad but it had zero appeal to most of the country. Since their plane crash, I ALWAYS have pulled for Marshall to win but that is about it for my appeal. It looked like the stadium was about 15-20% full which is flat out embarrasing, and that is a relatively small stadium. Boise State is usually a game I like to watch and even their matchup sucks. Then mention that there are NO New Year's Day games and it can't get much worse. To me, Oklahoma State should be playing in the Championship game and they aren't either so who gives a rat's ass. I'll follow the Big Ten games and that's about it for the bowls this year. Something needs to be done. A playoff makes too much sense so the BCS will continue to botch up the whole thing. The NBA starting back up will get a boost from this schedule, believe me.
 
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