r/CFB • u/Inside-Drink-1311 Rutgers Scarlet Knights • 1d ago

Opinion The Bowls aren’t going away

Despite some saying that this could be the end of the bowls or that they could move to the beginning of the season, I do not think that will be the case. Some of the bowls make too much money to go away. Like do you really think the Citrus Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Sun Bowl etc are going to go away? There’s no way that happens. Yeah, it will likely be against worse competition and players will still opt out but there are a lot of people who still care about the bowls and the majority of the G6 still cares about them. I think we will see some shut down, especially since 24 teams in the playoffs means 12 less teams participating in a bowl. I heard someone suggest that the first round losers in the CFP still play in a bowl but that will never work as the teams will not want to play.

Moving bowls to the start of the season is not going to work either. Maybe we will get some more neutral site kickoff games so I guess they are bowl games in that sense. The problem though is that the team who will play in this bowl is not the team who actually earned it. Yeah, there’s not a lot of loyalty in CFB these days but I’m sure there’s still some seniors who would want to play. Also, do we really want to play most of these bowls in the hot weather. You may have to do some more northern bowls if that’s the case. Not sure if anyone would want to play in the Sun Bowl in August.

I do think it is possible that they just throw bowl eligibility out of the window and the bowls just choose whoever they want. That, I can see happening. The bowls are already dead (as we know it) and have been for years. This will make it worse but the games will still happen.

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u/EnvironmentalBed7369 Utah Utes • College of Idaho Coyotes 20h ago

A few thoughts:

  1. I won't complain about more College Football. So as many bowls as want to stay around, feel free.

  2. That said, I don't really care. Have them, don't have them, meh.

  3. I'll watch if the occasional interesting matchup occurs, even if between two mediocre teams - especially if they have a history. For example, I likely wouldn't watch Michigan State vs UCF. Don't care. But I would watch something like James Madison vs Virginia Tech or Colorado State vs Air Force.