I remember when New Year's was the line you drew between bowls that mattered and those that didn't. You had fun games like the Holiday Bowl and Peach Bowl which didn't get to be in the big leagues, but you enjoyed watching. Now you got lousy bowls playing after the Rose Bowl, absolute blasphemy. NCAA would do good to stop the madness and say only payouts over some large amount can go Jan 1 or later. And even better, stop with the 3 week bowl season. Have the first game on Dec 24 and end all bowls except title game by Jan 2.
Less than does it matter, it sort of pisses me off. We all joke about how the NBA and NHL regular season mean nothing, but college football is getting even worse. Teams go 6-6, often aided by beating up a few cupcakes and they get a "reward" of one more lousy game. I mean many of these games you would pay no attention to if they were on a regular Saturday. Here they get TV coverage. Can't believe no one at the NCAA has gone to B-school to learn about oversaturating your product and how it dilutes your quality and following. If teams had only 10 bowl games to qualify for they would be playing their asses off all season to get there and then the games would be great stuff for TV. As it is now I just watch short parts of some of the games and if they are compelling late I will stay tuned. No way I would ever watch OSU-Missouri, but when it looks like it will be entertaining late I will keep it on for entertainment.
As a little kid in early-mid 60s tradition was burning Christmas tree in firplace and eating all leftover cookies while watching Sugar, Rose, Cotton Bowls and going to bed during 1st half of orange.
First memories
Sugar Wyoming's hyped player was Jerry Depoyster--a kicker
Cotton ND loved by Lindsay Nelson with rembered feature player WR Gatewood
Rose OJ for USC and Rex kern for OSU
Orange- couldn't really watch game until 11 or so as bedtime pretty early at 10 or less--plus school started up again.
Later on loved the OB because national title on line many times with Sooners or Huskers involved--nothing like Criqui and Trumpy
First memories
Sugar Wyoming's hyped player was Jerry Depoyster--a kicker
Cotton ND loved by Lindsay Nelson with rembered feature player WR Gatewood
Rose OJ for USC and Rex kern for OSU
Orange- couldn't really watch game until 11 or so as bedtime pretty early at 10 or less--plus school started up again.
Later on loved the OB because national title on line many times with Sooners or Huskers involved--nothing like Criqui and Trumpy
