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Lawrence Wright said:
If our teams are in bowl games, chances are we watch, regardless of how meaningless the bowl game is in the bigger picture.
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That's why the powers that be resisted a playoff so long. They knew we'd just keep watching bowls as is and they thought we'd stop watching them if there were a playoff. I watch fewer bowls, I think most people do, but I'll always watch Tennessee and a handful of others. The TV will be on for quite a bit more bowls than that, but nobody's really watching.
 
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I doubt the XFL survives, but what if it does and they start offering high school kids or NCAAF Fresh & Soph contracts?

The NCAA will have to start paying kids to survive
 
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n_huffhines said:
I don't understand the new or old bowl system. We accepted it because it was all we knew, but it's crap. You'd have to reduce it 10 bowls at the most for me to get excited about all/most of them, and I'd still be left asking "but why don't we have a playoff, again?"

The bowl system made a lot more sense 70 years ago when travel wasn't convenient and there was far less $ and interest fueling everything. We just kept on doing it that way because that's the way it was.
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Also that whole system started when pro football wasn't even close to being as popular as college football and the NFL wasn't the goal like it is now.
 
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MurphyVol said:
I doubt the XFL survives, but what if it does and they start offering high school kids or NCAAF Fresh & Soph contracts?

The NCAA will have to start paying kids to survive
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I think this time it will make it at least 2 seasons. It certainly has a much stronger foundation than the AAF, and actually has a pretty good TV contract.
 
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n_huffhines said:
90% of bowls either have a bad matchup or one team doesn't seem to care.
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Mark my words, you will see some of these end of season bowls and their sponsors move to earlier in the season to try and attract football thirsty fans in August or early September. New Years Day Bowls will be replaced with high profile Labor Day bowl games.
 
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GVF said:
Yeah, but that G League ain't gonna pay their way back to college after they fail to make it out of G-League. Atleast college gives them something in their hip pocket. Otherwise, a G League wash out is headed to retail.
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Why do the colleges have to prohibit G-League players? Maybe they need to change their rules to allow these guys to play. They could set an age limit of 21 or 22 if they want.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Mark my words, you will see some of these end of season bowls and their sponsors move to earlier in the season to try and attract football thirsty fans in August or early September. New Years Day Bowls will be replaced with high profile Labor Day bowl games.
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There won't be any August or September bowl games.
 
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ButchPlz said:
You're being semantic. Those games are essentially regular season bowls with conference alignments.
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Did not replace an existing bowl game; does not have the "bowl week" atmosphere (arrive a week early, go to local attractions, etc); payout is less; not named after a major sponsor; and so on and so forth. Not a bowl game. Only commonality is two teams from different conferences at a neutral site. The UGA-UF game has more of a bowl atmosphere than any of the season-opening games.

While pitting a top-tier SEC team against a top-tier ACC team for the first game of the season is great marketing, the resemblance to a post-season bowl game (and all that goes with it) ends right there.

Call it what you want. Bowl sponsors won't move to the first of the season, and even if they did, the fans won't travel nearly as well. In short, it's a loser.

Let's revisit this thread in 5 years and see.
 
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Iā€™ve said it before and Iā€™ll say it again, the big N.Y. Day bowls with force the 8 game playoff. Theyā€™re getting killed when theyā€™re outside looking in.
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
Yep, and they're not bowl games.
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The only difference between those games and traditional bowl games are when they are played on the calendar.

The word "bowl" is just a generic term. They may call the games "bowls" or "classics" or "battles" but the general theme is that the games would be driven by sponsors, networks and local tourism agencies trying to create the best match ups for their game.
 
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