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re: Remember when bowl games were fun and meant something...?
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:45 pm to gatorsimz
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:45 pm to gatorsimz
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Meh nothing has really changed IMO except more opt outs.
What changed, is the amount of BS bowl games, the Pop Tart bowl.
... That's why they suck now... There's teams with losing records playing in bowl games..
This post was edited on 12/30/23 at 5:56 pm
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Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:47 pm to Hangover Haven
Most are legit terrible in the Era of being meaningless and opt outs
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:47 pm to Hangover Haven
It's an awful postseason. I hope the playoffs games are good because this has been pathetic
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:47 pm to Hangover Haven
Exactly. Unfortunately there is no going back. Sad.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:48 pm to Hangover Haven
I just noticed the upper deck of the Orange Bowl is sparsely populated. I know it’s a lousy game, but bowl attendance has dropped precipitously since the CFP, NIL, and the portal. Opt outs too.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:49 pm to SDVTiger
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I dont understand why they dont just go right to 12 team playoff with those bowl games being tbe elite 8 games or rnd 2
That would be the perfect scenario.
I guess the bowls determined would be the ones with the deepest pockets.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:54 pm to Hangover Haven
"Remember when is the lowest form of conversation."
-Tony Soprano
-Tony Soprano
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:55 pm to MikeyFL
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I think we're looking at the past through rose colored glasses if we believe a lot of these bowl games, especially outside of the New Year's Six, "meant something."
They were always a joke.
The Orange Bowl is NY6 and it is currently the biggest joke of the bowl season.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 5:56 pm to ReauxlTide222
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So you remember a time when bowl games were great?
Absolutely. New Year's Day was like Christmas growing up.
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It sounds like the same people who liked bowl games bc they meant something real are the same ones who hate them now.
I still like them. If someone can watch Mizzou celebrating the Cotton Bowl, see WKU's QB getting emotional after that wild comeback in the Famous Toastery Bowl, or see Martell Irby's interview after the Alamo Bowl, and say it's all meaningless, then I have to assume they don't like college football.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 6:03 pm to RLDSC FAN
Am I the only one that thinks texas gets blown out?
Posted on 12/30/23 at 6:05 pm to nvasil1
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Absolutely. New Year's Day was like Christmas growing up.
My dad always had a huge party that day...He called it the wild game party. He cooked all the game we killed that year, smoked a venison quarter, duck and sausage gumbo and in the evening he made his oysters and spaghetti dish. We had pools for all the games and had enough beer to last a week.
It would start with the first game and ended at the end of the final game. We had people in and out all day. Good times.
This post was edited on 12/30/23 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 12/30/23 at 6:07 pm to Hangover Haven
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Message Remember when bowl games were fun and meant something...?
That ship has sailed
Posted on 12/30/23 at 6:53 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
mediocrity is rewarded in our society, has been for years,
trophies for everybody. 6&6 teams playing each other is a joke!
trophies for everybody. 6&6 teams playing each other is a joke!
Posted on 12/30/23 at 6:55 pm to Hangover Haven
Nothing changed besides perception, but all sports are is perception. Nothing in sports actually matters, at all. Only what we perceive as mattering. And for whatever reason we used to think the cotton bowl between -#5 and #8 mattered. It didn’t matter, but we thought it did, which is all that is important.
Now everyone just kinda sees through the bullshite
Now everyone just kinda sees through the bullshite
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:10 pm to TeachemMeachem17
Yea but why did it start with Jaylon Smith?
Because I know dang well there had to have been top NFL draft prospects that were hurt in their bowl game many years before Jaylon.
Because I know dang well there had to have been top NFL draft prospects that were hurt in their bowl game many years before Jaylon.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:22 pm to Hangover Haven
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The big four were the Sugar, Cotton, Orange and Rose...
I guess it's been watered down so much, no one give a frick about them anymore unless there's championship teams involved.
Now it's football for shits and giggles.
These takes are so terrible. This was also when the top teams didn't play each other, so it was rarely if ever decided on the field, and the media chose the national champion.
So great.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:23 pm to Vandergriff
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Other than the CFP games they are glorified scrimmages.
The outcomes mean nothing.
As opposed to before there was a playoff, and the games were glorified scrimmages...and meant nothing?
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:27 pm to Hangover Haven
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Yes, You didn't always have 1 vs 2, many times various bowls determined who would be the AP/UPI #1. It was great when they actually meant something.
But it was usually the big4 on NY eve and NY day.
This logic...having to perform calculus to guess who was #1 is better than having the best teams play each other head to head
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:40 pm to Hangover Haven
Bowl games have always been meaningless in the grand scheme of things but there was a hierarchy and pride depending on the bowl or matchup
As a LSU fan a decent example was the 2005 Peach Bowl vs Miami
Being in the Peachbowl was a disappointment that season but drawing a top 10 team, storied program gave both teams something to fight for
Both teams relished the chance to play in that game because to them it meant something
Now if you don't make the CF Playoff the season is over and players declare early
It sucks because bowl games used to be either a great way for a legend to sign off or potentially the chance for a new guy to step up
Ex. 05 Peach Bowl...Addai signed off and Flynn stepped up showing what LSU fans would see in 07
But now when even a few players mail in the bowl or tap out altogether the team is entirely different
Bowl season used to be closer to March Madness...today it is closer to the Pro Bowl
As a LSU fan a decent example was the 2005 Peach Bowl vs Miami
Being in the Peachbowl was a disappointment that season but drawing a top 10 team, storied program gave both teams something to fight for
Both teams relished the chance to play in that game because to them it meant something
Now if you don't make the CF Playoff the season is over and players declare early
It sucks because bowl games used to be either a great way for a legend to sign off or potentially the chance for a new guy to step up
Ex. 05 Peach Bowl...Addai signed off and Flynn stepped up showing what LSU fans would see in 07
But now when even a few players mail in the bowl or tap out altogether the team is entirely different
Bowl season used to be closer to March Madness...today it is closer to the Pro Bowl
Posted on 12/30/23 at 10:00 pm to partywiththelombardi
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Bowl season used to be closer to March Madness...today it is closer to the Pro Bowl
That’s a great analogy….
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