Remember When Bowl Games Meant Something IP: 67.209.10.119 Posted on December 31, 2023 at 03:48:57 PM by Slick
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about college football and I liked the idea of the championship playoffs (at the time). I hated having the National Championship determined by the press. AP & UPI.
But we've just seen the #5 and #7 teams in the final season ratings score 6 points combined (FSU and Ohio State) in the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. Those were two of the top bowls for 30+ years. Now they don't even matter.
It's always been f'd up that coaches could leave a team and join a new team the next season, but players would have to sit out a year (or two) if they transferred. But the Transfer Portal is gutting teams of their best players before the season is even over. Ohio State's quarterback won't take a snap at Syracuse until next year, but by transferring he denied himself and his team a shot at winning the Cotton Bowl. I don't see the sense in that.
Maybe expanding the playoffs will help keep teams together through the post season next year - but these bowl games are done. The teams that are playing are sometimes a shadow of the team that earned the invitation. They don't prove anything like the old conference arguments of which teams were really better. Replies:
