The Bowl Thread

Saturday wild card games are ESPN and NBC Divisional round Saturdays are CBS and Fox. All four are going to prioritize the NFL over college football. What's left for the playoffs, the CW?

 

Can we at least agree that a Monday game that starts at 8 p.m. on the east coast and doesn't end until after midnight isn't helping grow this sport?

 

Oh, I totally agree. The simplest solution would be to push back the playoffs (why a month off?) so that they ended on New Year's Day or the day after. The current setup is actually WORSE than the old bowl system prior to the BCS. You can have a playoff, or you can prioritize bowl games, but not both, at least not successfully.

 

On a side note, I'm disappointed that the Hawaii Bowl isn't on Christmas Eve this year. I always liked coming home from an early deadline night to be one of probably 10 people in my state to be watching the game.

 

Re the 1987 Fiesta Bowl: That was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence where you had independents as the top 2 and a bowl with no conference tie-ins eager to make a splash. If we had the bowl system now we had in 1987, another 1 vs. 2 of this type would be very unlikely because the only major independent teams left are Notre Dame, BYU and Army.

 

Arlington is a little over 1,000 miles from Gainesville & a little under 1,200 from Ann Arbor. For that matter, it's cheaper and quicker to fly there (Dallas) from Detroit than it is from Gainesville.

 

That 14.5 Bama-OK spread looks tempting - until you realize outside of last week they hadn't won by fewer than 24 points all year.

 

White is playing.

 

Six NIT bowls. Not In Tournament.

 

That bowl got me through countless family Christmas Eve parties where I had no interest in what anyone was talking about.

 

And it isn't like anyone on the west coast is going to watch anyway.