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Bowl Season then and now

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I still remember giving a damn about bowl games. Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl were all must see TV...maybe even a little interest in the Citrus Bowl and Fiesta as well. And, of course, all of the good bowl games were played on New Year's Day.

Back then Bowls were pretty logical. In the Rose, we knew the best Big Ten team would play the winner of the Pac 8. Typically this would be Ohio State or Michigan against USC, although sometimes an Illinois, Iowa or Purdue would sneak in to play UCLA or Washington. Orange bowl almost always had one of the independents like ND, FSU or Miami play an Oklahoma or Texas or Nebraska. The Sugar saw the SEC winner play someone like Clemson or whichever Big 8 team didn't go to the Orange Bowl. Good stuff.


I don't know exactly when this interest started to wane, but I know it died when they introduced the BCS. As if overnight, 90% of the bowl games no longer mattered at all. Suddenly, only one bowl game mattered--all the other games became irrelevant--and, it wasn't even played on New Year's Day.

Now, only two Bowl games matter. And, there are probably 40 which no one cares about at all. WTF?
 
calamity said:
I still remember giving a damn about bowl games. Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl were all must see TV...maybe even a little interest in the Citrus Bowl and Fiesta as well. And, of course, all of the good bowl games were played on New Year's Day.

Back then Bowls were pretty logical. In the Rose, we knew the best Big Ten team would play the winner of the Pac 8. Typically this would be Ohio State or Michigan against USC, although sometimes an Illinois, Iowa or Purdue would sneak in to play UCLA or Washington. Orange bowl almost always had one of the independents like ND, FSU or Miami play an Oklahoma or Texas or Nebraska. The Sugar saw the SEC winner play someone like Clemson or whichever Big 8 team didn't go to the Orange Bowl. Good stuff.


I don't know exactly when this interest started to wane, but I know it died when they introduced the BCS. As if overnight, 90% of the bowl games no longer mattered at all. Suddenly, only one bowl game mattered--all the other games became irrelevant--and, it wasn't even played on New Year's Day.

Now, only two Bowl games matter. And, there are probably 40 which no one cares about at all. WTF?
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Three bowl games matter and that certainly better than the zero that mattered before the BCS
 
Crovax said:
Three bowl games matter and that certainly better than the zero that mattered before the BCS
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is the Championship game even a Bowl Game?
 
Meh, none of the bowl games ever mattered, they’ve always just been exhibitions for the fans to enjoy and the schools to get a windfall. At least the champion is no longer simply the result of voting like it was before the BCS.
 
calamity said:
I still remember giving a damn about bowl games. Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl were all must see TV...maybe even a little interest in the Citrus Bowl and Fiesta as well. And, of course, all of the good bowl games were played on New Year's Day.

Back then Bowls were pretty logical. In the Rose, we knew the best Big Ten team would play the winner of the Pac 8. Typically this would be Ohio State or Michigan against USC, although sometimes an Illinois, Iowa or Purdue would sneak in to play UCLA or Washington. Orange bowl almost always had one of the independents like ND, FSU or Miami play an Oklahoma or Texas or Nebraska. The Sugar saw the SEC winner play someone like Clemson or whichever Big 8 team didn't go to the Orange Bowl. Good stuff.


I don't know exactly when this interest started to wane, but I know it died when they introduced the BCS. As if overnight, 90% of the bowl games no longer mattered at all. Suddenly, only one bowl game mattered--all the other games became irrelevant--and, it wasn't even played on New Year's Day.

Now, only two Bowl games matter. And, there are probably 40 which no one cares about at all. WTF?
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If you like football, college games are the way to go. The are perfect, them make plays, they fail plays, but the are more interesting that NFL because they aren't as good! It's like college baseball vs pro baseball. Nothing is more boring than a no hitter, yet it's the pinnacle of success. WTF?
 
chuckiechan said:
If you like football, college games are the way to go. The are perfect, them make plays, they fail plays, but the are more interesting that NFL because they aren't as good! It's like college baseball vs pro baseball. Nothing is more boring than a no hitter, yet it's the pinnacle of success. WTF?
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There certainly are several things about the college game that is more fun to watch than the NFL. For one, the games are faster. For two, the chicks.
 
calamity said:
For me the CFB playoff is just a battle between red states. It's pretty bad when Georgia is the most liberal representative in the final four.
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I root for the Big Ten and Boise State. Otherwise I'm not political about football.
 
chuckiechan said:
If you like football, college games are the way to go. The are perfect, them make plays, they fail plays, but the are more interesting that NFL because they aren't as good! It's like college baseball vs pro baseball. Nothing is more boring than a no hitter, yet it's the pinnacle of success. WTF?
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I like how in college football there are far fewer penalties called than in the NFL, and in college they know what a catch and a touchdown are, where the NFL still is not sure.
 
I do think the bowl game schedule is a little ass-backwards this year, but I guess they want to spread the big games out. We have the Outback Bowl, Chik Fil A Bowl and Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, while the biggest bowls outside of the playoffs, Fiesta, Orange and Cotton Bowls are Dec. 29 and 30.
 
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Jack Hays said:
I root for the Big Ten and Boise State. Otherwise I'm not political about football.
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I'm usually not either. But, it's hard to miss it this year.
 
Agree completely. Whats so compelling about the BCS ? I do enjoy the playoff structure but I miss the old Bowls. I think college football is worse for the change.


calamity said:
I still remember giving a damn about bowl games. Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl were all must see TV...maybe even a little interest in the Citrus Bowl and Fiesta as well. And, of course, all of the good bowl games were played on New Year's Day.

Back then Bowls were pretty logical. In the Rose, we knew the best Big Ten team would play the winner of the Pac 8. Typically this would be Ohio State or Michigan against USC, although sometimes an Illinois, Iowa or Purdue would sneak in to play UCLA or Washington. Orange bowl almost always had one of the independents like ND, FSU or Miami play an Oklahoma or Texas or Nebraska. The Sugar saw the SEC winner play someone like Clemson or whichever Big 8 team didn't go to the Orange Bowl. Good stuff.


I don't know exactly when this interest started to wane, but I know it died when they introduced the BCS. As if overnight, 90% of the bowl games no longer mattered at all. Suddenly, only one bowl game mattered--all the other games became irrelevant--and, it wasn't even played on New Year's Day.

Now, only two Bowl games matter. And, there are probably 40 which no one cares about at all. WTF?
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TobyOne said:
Agree completely. Whats so compelling about the BCS ? I do enjoy the playoff structure but I miss the old Bowls. I think college football is worse for the change.
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Lots of things changed since the 70's and 80's, of course. Cable, satellite, on-line sites have made watching any team at anytime commonplace. But, back then, the biggest draw with bowl games was finally getting a chance to see teams like Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, etc play each other. No one really cared if the match-up was for a title or not. We just wanted to see Notre Dame play Nebraska.

In the 70's, the only time most people living in the Midwest would see UCLA or USC play at all was in the Rose Bowl. And, who didn't enjoy a Sugar Bowl match-up between Texas and Alabama? Of course, it was made even better whenever we heard Keith Jackson saying, "Al-ah-Bamah."
 
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