Bowl game not meaningless

It's meaningless beyond it being a 3-4 hour window to kill some time with mindless entertainment during the holidays.

But it is meaningless for the most part

I love bowl games. Yeah they’re “meaningless” when you’re not playing for a championship but it’s a fun way for players, most of whom won’t play after college, to cap off a winning season and take a sort of victory lap. I understand the ones who want to opt out to not risk injury before the draft but if they want to play, let them have their fun

To the returning players and to the new coaching staff, it is not.

It represents a chance for the new players to show them what they can do. And if gives them some precious extra practice sessions.

It gives the new coaching staff an initial evaluation of those players.

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Bowl games are just giant advertisement windows. Always have been.

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How old are you? Twenty?


"Always" is a lot longer than your life.

Back in my childhood and college days (60s-80s) bowl games did not have corporate sponsor names, AND they were the final decision point of who was a national champion (top of the AP or UPI poll).

Bowls-- and who played in them-- mattered, especially the big bowls.

Look at the 1969 season: 9-1 #8 LSU was slated to play undefeated Texas in the Cotton Bowl, but Notre Dame decided to lift their bowl ban so the Cotton Bowl picked them instead of LSU. Cost LSU a shot at possible national championship.

1986 season: the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams were independents (Penn State and Miami). With neither team having a conference bowl tie-in, the previously lower-level, non-big four Fiesta Bowl was able to snatch both teams for a 1 vs. 2 national championship.

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Bowl game not meaningless

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it most certainly IS meaningless.

We have a new coaching staff but the team will be playing under the former staff's schemes with most coaches who won't be here next year.

And our roster will have big turnover by next season, so many/most of our current players will be gone.

And we're 7-5 playing in a shitty bowl. It's meaningless.

It's a payday for the conference which will trickle back to LSU and it is added practices for the players. Plus the players get to have some fun which is good.

If it meant something, how come the Florida bowls in Tampa, Orlando, will draw 40k fans? Dont give me this "alumni fanbase" in Houston crap either. The ratings for these shite games will hit an all time low. Just wait.

That's right... for us that live in Houston, if Cougar High beats us (whether we have a full team & coaches or not), they will still run their mouths until we play them again... I want us to shut their cheer , "Whose House? Coogs House" and for them not to play that womp womp song (even though it's cool... "C-O-U-G-A-R-S, mother fuching Cougars" lol)