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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 309315, member: 527"]
What you will see over the next few years is lots of smaller bowls dying and going away. You will see sponsors and advertisers throw all their money at the new FINAL 4 playoff. And these other bowls will go away. Because as a company you are going to want to advertise on the games with the most eyeballs. And if you can get more bang for your buck with 4 or 5 commercials during a Final 4 game you will get more exposure than actually putting on some minor/crap bowl that nobody is watching anyway being played in a half-empty stadium. Just like in college basketball how the NIT has become such a non-factor in March with the "have-not's" that is how it will happen in college football. The Non-Final 4 Bowls are in an impossible spot now. Especially the smaller bowls.
 
You will have the Final 4 getting all the attention. And there will always be a few other bowls, but not nearly as many as their are currently and many will die and go away. And in a decade or so when the playoff probably expands past 4 teams, more and more smaller bowls will die and go away. Money runs this stuff and the big sponsors that make the bowls go like will want the games with the most eyeballs (ie the Final 4) and will throw there money there. The Orange, Fiesta, Rose, Cotton bowls aren't ever going away. But you will see bowls like the Champs Bowl, Gator Bowl, Outback, Pinstripe, Music City, Beef O Brady, Car Care, Sun...etc and bowls on that level possibly go away in time. This Final 4 just makes it harder for the non-major bowls to compete. A couple will survive and go on but a bunch will just die and go away in the near future.
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