re: Bowl Games need to go completely

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you recall incorrectly. the SEC shares bowl revenues, so we get a piece of the pie from the 2 BCS bowl games the SEC plays in every year, even when we play in the Peach bowl. Last year, the number was over 14 million. a trip to Atlanta for the team doesn't cost nearly that much

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Re-think your math. LSU did not receive 14 million dollars from the league for bowl games.

When the amount LSU got paid for going to the Peach Bowl was compared to LSU's expenses for going to the Peach Bowl, it was a break-even proposition. The point is, teams for the most part lose money by going to bowl games. This is a fact. Do I think bowls should go away? Of course not. Do schools benefit from the extra practice and exposure? Of course they do. But from a strictly monetary standpoint, they lose money for the school.

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Really, the best that most any school can hope for is a break-even deal or something close to it once travel expenses are factored in. Bloomberg News reported that for the 2010-11 postseason, "the average team loss in a BCS bowl was $346,959, reflecting an average expense allowance of about $2.38 million and an average expense of $2.73 million. The average loss in a non-BCS bowl that postseason was $139,604."

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Yahoo! article about the cost of bowl games to schools

Clemson loses money in the Orange Bowl