Bowl games mean nothing anymore

Only three bowl games mean anything.

I still like them and yesterdays games were great. The kids were having a blast. That KU game - man!

Who watches The NIT,if you are a Football School and there's no chance of winning a National Championship, do you want to watch a meaningless bowl

Wrong. Bowl games match teams otherwise would never play each other. It's for the players who earned the right to become bowl eligible. A reward for the years hard work. More practice time for the younger players. Plus with the new NCAA rule allowing freshman not to lose their red shirt for playing in the bowls helps balance the opt out or NFL draft entries. This helps a lot. So the bowls are still important. Especially when we go to a 12 team playoff in 2024.

I haven’t watched any and I’m not pausing my vacation to watch ours either. If the team doesn’t care about them why should we.

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Bowl games mean nothing anymore

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Well, you think Bowl Games are meaningless?

Look at the embarrassment Ole Miss is dealing with today after a pathetic showing by Kiffin and his team in the Texas Bowl.

If they didn’t mean anything they wouldn’t make a difference if a team has a winning season or not.

If they didn’t mean anything the TV Networks wouldn’t pay to broadcast each and every one of them. If you want to watch reruns of “Murder She Wrote” or “The Love Boat” then do it.

In reality only 1 or 2 Bowl Games ever determined the National Champion. When the CFP expands to 12 teams every one of those games will have an input toward the NC. It will not be long before the CFP expands again to 16 teams because the CFP Games will generate much more money than non-playoff Bowl Games. This is just common sense and some Bowl Games will die.

That all being said, right now Bowl Games still do mean something and are far from meaningless.

So true. Just like no game in the regular season means anything after a team loses two games. Just like no game really means anything for 99% of the teams that have no realistic chance of winning a conference or national championship. Unless of course you enjoy watching college football. In which case every game is meaningful if your coaching staff gets the players ready to play at a high level.

So don't focking watch them!

You pitiful little Nancies that show up here everyday complaining about the bowl games are ridiculous.

They do mean something to the programs (extra practice,extra money) and to the players (for some; one final game) and for some fans (holiday trip).

But if they are meaningless to you, so do something else like, playing with your gerbil or cleaning the lint from your dryer filter.

Bowl games mean enough to get online to start a thread bitching about how they are meaningless and to say you miss the good ole days. Just don’t watch. Pretty simple.