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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3882275, member: 289"] College football existed for decades without bowls, then just had the Rose Bowl, then went to 8-10 bowls games for decades and survived. I liked it when a bowl was a reward for a special season, not just for going 6-6. I never watch most of the bowl games unless SU in involved, they involve top teams or interesting player match-ups. But there are fewer of those these days. Now you get star players opting out of them to avoid injury, as the WVA QB did against us. The lower tier bowls can give a program like SU a bit of leg up. But what did 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2018 ultimately do for us? It's TV programming but the ratings can't be much and the crowds, besides fans from the two schools aren't much either. Given a choice between saving these bowls and having a comprehensive playoff for the national championship that we might be in in a good year, I'll take the latter. But I don't see what that choice has to be made. We went to a two team playoff and a four team playoff and those bowls are still there. An 8 team playoff would kill them? A 16 team playoff would kill them? They were in no way depending on being part of the national championship determination to survive anyway. And the preliminary rounds of the playoff could be held in December when there aren't any bowls with only the title game in the bowl season and that could be in a bowl. The teams that don't make the finals could still go to a bowl and have a chance to end their season with a victory. I just don't see a problem here. And regular season games have meaning even if they don't involve bowls or the national championship. isn't every SU game this year going to mean something to you? There are regional and conference rivalries, individual match-ups, the potential for an exciting game and you always want your team to do better. [/QUOTE]

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