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Change College Football Needs; Restoration of Rivalries, Elimination of Bowl Games
When an exhibition game is cancelled because a 2–8 team can’t attend, or it takes a virus for a 9–2 team to get an invite instead of one with a 3–7 record, they are obsolete. That’s happening now. Here’s a better alternative for all involved.
College football bowl games haven’t just become obsolete. With so many losing, let alone less-than-outstanding, teams in them they’ve become comical.
They are postseason consolation games, nothing more, nothing less. They are kept alive by networks’ demands to have sports programming around the holidays, when we realize the NBA and NHL are cult sports, the NFL plays on weekends, and regular season non-conference college basketball is practically meaningless.
Bowl games were originally a reward. The Rose Bowl pitted the best team in the east against the best in the west, and offered sunshine in the winter during Christmas break and a glamorous trip to southern California for the participants. The winner would be looked at as the best team in the land!
