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MustardTiger said:
I'll never understand the "bowls are meaningless" "why do we have so many bowls" "no one cares about these games" crowds. We're about to embark on a 7 month journey with no football whatsoever. If you love football you want as many games as possible.
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Another plus, with the Holidays always being a time to find yourself possibly 1. not at work 2. being with family you don't normally spend time with.... bowl games bring us together with a great diversion.
Were we better off having the Mississippi State - Texas Tech game on to keep us from talking politics with the family this week? I say 100%.
 
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What if they turned some of these bowl games into "kickoff classic"-type games & play them in Weeks Zero &/or 1?
 
CloneinWDSM said:
Check the viewership. These **** bowl games are drawing bigger numbers than most everything else.
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But are the numbers because that is the main viewing option for sports fans?

I like Bowl games as much as most- but primarily when it pairs two P5 programs. Not so much interest in G5 games between MAC, Sunbelt, etc. teams.

There are a lot of people who are off work this week and Bowl games become default sport viewing. But what if Big12, Big10, ACC opening week hoops games were on this week? What if the NFL stepped in and played 3 national games on Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun the week between Christmas & New Years?

I don't mind the Bowl games and probably watch about half, but what I do mind is the mindless drivel spouted by most of the ESPN talking heads. The pre, post and half-time shows make me change the channel.
 
Tre4ISU said:
No one said they were hurting anyone, except maybe the 40% of schools that lose money playing in them.
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Why is anyone even worried about it? If schools lose money, they can always say no. Its just an idiotic topic for the talking heads to talk about. Doesn't hurt the schools, doesn't hurt the players, doesn't hurt the fans.
 
isucy86 said:
I don't mind the Bowl games and probably watch about half, but what I do mind is the mindless drivel spouted by most of the ESPN talking heads. The pre, post and half-time shows make me change the channel.
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The problem isn't that they are talking about bowl games the problem is that they aren't. They spend about 30 seconds talking about a bowl game and then they go back to the constant rehash of the playoff games.

The problem isn't that there are too many bowl games, the problem is that ESPN owns broadcast rights to virtually all of them and they use them as one giant commercial after another for their broadcast of the playoff.

The problem isn't the bowl games, the problem is ESPN.
 
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clone52 said:
Why is anyone even worried about it? If schools lose money, they can always say no. Its just an idiotic topic for the talking heads to talk about. Doesn't hurt the schools, doesn't hurt the players, doesn't hurt the fans.
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I'm just kind of intrigued by how many people care about the wrong people making money in college athletics until it's bowl people and all of a sudden the Dukes Mayonnaise is sacred.
 
For the “only playoff games matter” crowd, they probably forget that most playoff games have been total duds even if that doesn’t change their argument.
 
Pretty sad directly before our game the talking head spouts I like Iowa State here excited to see how Hall caps off his collegiate career. Guessing they knew exactly when Saban took his morning duece though.
 
VeloClone said:
The problem isn't that they are talking about bowl games the problem is that they aren't. They spend about 30 seconds talking about a bowl game and then they go back to the constant rehash of the playoff games.

The problem isn't that there are too many bowl games, the problem is that ESPN owns broadcast rights to virtually all of them and they use them as one giant commercial after another for their broadcast of the playoff.

The problem isn't the bowl games, the problem is ESPN.
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ESPN doesn't just own the broadcast rights of those bowls. They literally own the bowls. If ESPN didn't own these bowls, likely most of them wouldn't exist b/c almost no one else can afford to.
 
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