How greed destroyed the "Bowl Season"

Remember how people used to look forward to bowl games before they
added so many that they became meaningless. If your a bettor I guess
you could say it's just more oppurtunity to find a positive wager. Let's face it, the bowl season has turned into a joke. Unlike the NCAA basketball tournament where every game counts football is just a vehicle
to advertise a sponsor. Some of the football games may be great contests
but there is nothing special about going to a bowl. It actually went in the toilet when they started playing games after January 1st. The Rose Bowl
should have become an open bowl many years ago and designated for the
top two teams. It wouldn't have diminshed the other bowls if they had limited how many bowls there could be in college season. If there were only 8 or 9 bowls. The top twenty teams would draw enough interest to keep all the stadiums filled. But greed took over, they wanted the championship game to be rotated, more bowls came on the scene and it has turned into the mess it is today.

Bowl games suck (IMO) and RUIN college football. Bring on a playoff so this crap actually means something. Other then UM/USC, I won't watch 1 second of this meaningless crap today. I guess in a weird way I agree with you.

Bowl games don't RUIN college football. The beauty of college football is not in its postseason, but in its regular season where every game truely counts.

The exact opposite is present in college bball where the regular season is okay and the postseason is GREAT.

That is why college football has the best regular season in sports and college bball has the best postseason in sports. Just cause the bowls arent as exciting doesnt mean it is ruining college football.

New Years Day is not the same, January 1 used to be the big day in college Football.

They should have all 4 major BCS Bowls play on January 1 with the winners advancing to the Final Four of college Football..

The date of the title game gets later and later every couple years so it could be done.