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No Bowl For Tennessee
Or, why did it take a corona virus outbreak to do what a 3–7 record did not?
The college football postseason is a joke.
It’s not so much the college football playoff. One might be upset that Texas A & M or Cincinnati didn’t make the four-team playoff, but someone will always be left out no matter what the playoff system is, and the bottom line is neither team is significantly better than the teams that did make it.
Nobody is going to say the team that wins the national championship is not worthy because a team that already lost to Alabama by four touchdowns wasn’t invited. Nobody is going to say they are illegitimate because a team from the American Athletic Conference wasn’t invited.
The college football postseason is a joke because of the bowl system, obsolete in a playoff world.
It’s college football’s version of basketball’s National Invitational Tournament. Or, if you’re not in the New Year’s Six, the College Basketball Invitational.
But that’s an insult to the CBI. At least they don’t accept teams with a .200 winning percentage, as the Gasparilla Bowl did inviting 2–8 South Carolina before the Gamecocks backed out today.
Or 3–7 Tennessee, who were slated to play in the Liberty Bowl before a coronavirus outbreak within the team caused them to opt…
