Anyone still want the Crap1 Bowl?

The coverage was surprisingly big time for a non BCS bowl.

ESPN coverage of the bowl game just wouldn't have felt as special.

I'll give my opinion on it, as an outsider. To me, the Cap One is still the better bowl (right now, though I know about the Cotton's history). It may have seemed like a BCS type broadcast tonight, but I think that may have been because FOX went all out, as it was their only game. I remember the Sun Bowl being the same way, and that was on CBS. If you went to the game, I guess I could see how a stadium like Jerryworld would be more appealing than the Citrus Bowl, but only 80,000 people go. The opponent was about the same quality (Cap One might be a little better opponent typically, but it's not a huge difference), so that's a wash.

But I feel as far as exposure's concerned, the Cap One is better, and that puts it over the edge. I actually wouldn't be shocked if the ratings were better for the Cotton, because it was the only game on, the Cap One was a complete massacre, and it wasn't on cable (we'll see tomorrow what they were), as opposed to the Cap One, but people could still flip back and forth to the Cap One, and it got a lot of coverage (both preview and recap) on SportsCenter, college football live, etc. If you've been watching ESPN at all today (both before and after the game), the Cotton Bowl has barely even been discussed. So to me, the Cap One's better, for that reason. But that's just my opinion.

The only problame I had with this game was it was SOOOOOOOO freakin long from the end of the reg season. That sucks. I moved on to Pro Football and Basketball. I lost interest in college football after Jan 1. Now the guys have to go back to class this week without ANY break. That sucks for the athletes. That is the main reason why I don't want a playoff and would like the season to be one less game.

It was on Fox on a Friday night with NFL announcers.

Enough said.

I did not want it in the first place. Even though they redid the field, I still have bad memories from that fiasco of last year. There was no excuse for that field to be in that bad of shape. Afterall, we have a grass field, and we find a way to maintain it. They could have done the same.

Moreover, the cotton bowl just felt better. As far as I am concerned, if we are not playing for the BCS NC, or the Sugar Bowl, I'd just as soon go to Dallas. People were comfortable, and the game had the nation's attention last night.