From: darkstar7646@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 4:59:38 PM UTC-8, JE Corbett wrote:   
      
   > Bowl games should be broken and thrown into the scrap heap. They are an   
   anachronism from a bygone era. They started    
   > out as post season exhibitions with no real meaning and were a reward for   
   teams that had outstanding season. They have    
   > become college football's version of participation trophies. You used to   
   have to win 8 or 9 games in 10 or 11 game seasons    
   > to get invited to one. Now, in some years, teams with 7 losses have gotten   
   invites.    
   >    
   > There was a time bowl games had no bearing on what used to be called a   
   MYTHICAL national championship. The final polls    
   > were take prior to the bowl games. When #1 Texas played #2 Navy in the 1964   
   Cotton Bowl, the national championship had    
   > been decided in both polls. A Navy upset win wouldn't have changed that.   
   Over the years, bowl games became de facto    
   > playoff games. We went through the Bowl Alliance, to the Bowl Coalition, to   
   the BCS in an attempt to get the #1 an #2 teams    
   > to play each other in a bowl game for the national championship. Meanwhile   
   the minor bowls proliferated to the point now    
   > that they are no longer significant. Players opt out of them. Coaches opt   
   out if they have taken a new job. Stadiums are half    
   > filled and most are only watched by fans of the two participating teams. As   
   far as I'm concerned, now that we are going to    
   > a 12 team playoff, they ought to scrap the rest of these worthless bowl   
   games.   
      
   I'll agree with scrapping useless bowls.   
      
   Mike   
      
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