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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 5602654, member: 3609"] People always say, "Get rid of the lower tier bowl games." Here are some of the problems that the advocates of doing that face: 1. Teams from the "other conferences" in FBS play in them and their fans would like to go to a bowl game, too. 2. Those lower tier bowl games represent filled hotel rooms and restaurant seats that would have been empty otherwise (how else would the hoteliers and restauranteurs get a couple of thousand people to go to Shreveport in December?) 3. The biggest barrier to getting rid of them IMO - most of the minor bowls are either owned outright by ESPN or ESPN is a major partner, and they need the original content to fill the time space. Short of making a near-basketball-sized playoff, it would be hard to come up with the number of games to replace the minor bowls that fill ESPN's airtime. [/QUOTE]