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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 5227877, member: 874"]
You're overstating how much people care. Of course family members care. So do family members of middle school football players, that's hardly an argument. And of course everyone directly involved cares. They have strong vested interest. Outside of direct connections to the bowls and teams involved there is far less interest than any regular season game between highly ranked teams. People betting on sports care because they want something to bet on. That doesn't make the game meaningful. Even playing a former rival is pretty meh when their best players opt out. I'd rather play them in an OOC regular season game that actually does matter. And yeah, some people go crazy when a team doesn't play well after their players opt out. Those people are pretty clueless. I haven't cared less about the result of any games than I have about the results of our last two bowls. They were big shoulder shrugs for me.

The results of bowl games just don't matter that much anymore. Making it to a bowl, and which bowl, is what matters because that is the reflection of the type of season the team had, not the result of the bowl, which is why you don't quit after two losses (another silly argument).
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