Non playoff bowls

#51
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njvols said:
I think bowl games are in trouble, b/c they're basically exhibition games w/o any implications on national standings, with how many opt outs there are, and portal exits. When they expand to probable 16 teams in playoffs, they make keep a few of them around, but most will go away, I'd think.

There's a few good matchups, like Vandy/Ga Tech...but not many. Ole Miss will embarrass Duke, and Bama same to Michigan and Florida to Tulane.
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I wouldnt go out and bet the farm on these games. They may be donning their Colleges uniforms but the players will not be anywhere close to the same starters in regular season. I talked to a FSU fan and he said the team that they put on field vs UGA was completly different from the regular season team. He said that Bowl team of players wouldn't have won the FCS.
 
#52
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Oh Yeah. I bet Arkansas is just thrilled to go to the Liberty Bowl. I bet the players just can't wait to experience beautiful downtown Memphis. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
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Wahoooo said:
I started another post about bowls as well.

It reeks of the NIT for basketball. When there were only 32 in the NCAA BB tournament, the NIT had some following. Now, at 68 or so teams getting in, I could not tell you who has won the NIT for the last 30 years.
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I bet the NIT champions just love to brag......."We're # 69. We're # 69!!!!!"🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
Now with the expansion of the playoff do you guys see these lower tier bowl games eventually going away? I don’t see how they’re even profitable, honestly if you’re not in the playoff now I don’t think anybody cares. I saw Miami going to the pop tart bowl, boy I bet they’re excited about that lol. I thought they should’ve done away with these lower tier bowl games years ago and should’ve raised it to eight wins.
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For a few teams maybe but for the Vandy"'s out there who said their goal was the playoff but it was actually bowl eligible...they will still play 95% of their normal players
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
The only way to prevent the Opt Out Bowls is for the fans to stop enabling it. Stop going to the Opt out bowls and stop watching them on TV. If fans do that, you won't believe how fast the rules will change.
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Why would a Vandy player opt out?
 
#56
#56
I’d watch an eight team postgame tourney with two teams each from SEC, B1G, B12 and ACC. Winning conference gets a guaranteed at-large spot in the playoffs the following year. Basically a “we’re better top to bottom than you are” tourney for the conferences for non-playoff teams.

Slate this year: Alabama, South Carolina, Colorado, BYU, Illinois, Iowa, Miami, Syracuse.
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
Now with the expansion of the playoff do you guys see these lower tier bowl games eventually going away? I don’t see how they’re even profitable, honestly if you’re not in the playoff now I don’t think anybody cares. I saw Miami going to the pop tart bowl, boy I bet they’re excited about that lol. I thought they should’ve done away with these lower tier bowl games years ago and should’ve raised it to eight wins.
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Just go ahead and make the play-off 16 teams. Give the major conference champs automatic berths but seed them and play them the way they do basketball. 1 vs 16, etc. The FCS is a good model. You could even use the conference championship games as play in games. Instead of Texas and Georgia in what was in some ways a meaningless game, it could be Ole Miss and Bama in a play in game. The regular season conference champion(s) would be done like it was in the past. Texas would have won this year. Some years there will be ties like in 1989, when Tennessee, Bama, and Auburn were co-champs. But having ASU and Boise get byes is a joke. JMHO
 
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overseasorange2 said:
Oh Yeah. I bet Arkansas is just thrilled to go to the Liberty Bowl. I bet the players just can't wait to experience beautiful downtown Memphis. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
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From a frat brother down there, it is the car jackings, 34 cars stolen per day and cars with broken windows looking for guns. He never goes downtown.
 
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KTrain said:
They have changed the names to all the non-playoff games to the Opt Out Bowls🤣, go watch next year's players and walk-ons as the Seniors Opt out. I just cannot see Milroe playing in the Reali Quist Bowl with chance of getting hurt.
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Maybe some humbleness is a good idea. Come 2025, we could find ourselves in one of those hohum bowls.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Maybe some humbleness is a good idea. Come 2025, we could find ourselves in one of those hohum bowls.
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If you want to see humble watch the Finebaum show today and his Bama followers that make up about half of his show and they exude humble.
 
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KTrain said:
If you want to see humble watch the Finebaum show today and his Bama followers that make up about half of his show and they exude humble.
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I'm not a Bama fan, which should be obvious. I don't give a dayum about Bama or their fans. And I still think mocking teams out of the playoffs, and playing in alternate bowls is an arrogant attitude. We may well be one of those teams in 2025, and beyond. Reigning in the arrogance isn't a bad idea, cause that baytch Madam Karma has a way of, well, being a baytch.
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
Now with the expansion of the playoff do you guys see these lower tier bowl games eventually going away? I don’t see how they’re even profitable, honestly if you’re not in the playoff now I don’t think anybody cares. I saw Miami going to the pop tart bowl, boy I bet they’re excited about that lol. I thought they should’ve done away with these lower tier bowl games years ago and should’ve raised it to eight wins.
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It could be totally reshaped if they expand from 12 to 32 playoff teams. That would reduce the neutral site pool with 16 on campus games instead of 5 or so CC games and going from 4 to 8 on campus games wk 2 eliminating the 4 byes and completing using same 6 bowl format for quarters and semis. Could consider replacing those with bowls but on site ticket sales seems more possible. Not sure how relative the FCS HISTORY is. Back to back bowl attendance would be tough to sell for 16 teams.


Sponsors could POSSIBLY align with all 24 on campus games. About 10 bottom feeder bowls in jeopardy with reduced team pool and going deeper to cover the losses does not seem practical.
 
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KTrain said:
I wouldnt go out and bet the farm on these games. They may be donning their Colleges uniforms but the players will not be anywhere close to the same starters in regular season. I talked to a FSU fan and he said the team that they put on field vs UGA was completly different from the regular season team. He said that Bowl team of players wouldn't have won the FCS.
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So that was why FSU was so bad this year! They forgot to bring back the real players and started the season with the FCS replacements.
 
#67
#67
All the bowl games that matter are now a part of the playoffs. The Slick Willie's Anal Lube Bowl will be shuttered in 2 years or less
 
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If a program is smart they will use these Bowls as practice, tune up, development and work on the next season. I can NOT imagine any NIL players with potential draft status playing anyway. Basically an NFL Minor League Scrimmage.......
 
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ESPN owns almost all of these lower tier bowls now and people bet on em so that’s prob enough to sell ads and have them make sense financially
 
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You mean you wouldn’t want to play in the Tony The Tiger Bowl? It’s a glorified scrimmage in which you get to see the next years starters get some playing time. They definetely aren’t taken seriously anymore. I doubt anyone would display their Famous Idaho Potato Bowl trophy.
 
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