Does anyone want to see teams that had a good season play the 3rd String QB who is getting his first snaps in his first game?
Tulane could be all over Florida but for the Tranfer Portal. I’m sure it is this way across CFB.
The bowls are now just a pre-season game for the following year minus the incoming players.
Speak for yourself, Ohio U vs Jacksonville State was fun.
The players were fired up too.
It’s just a game. 
Disagree. While the importance of the bowl games might be diminished, it’s important for the players who remain as it gives them the chance to show their skills and become starters for the next season.
I will be at any bowl game U of H plays at next season.
Coogs
The timing of everything in college football is off, they need to rearrange a lot
The portal should open after the Natty
I agree
This can all be fixed if they simply moved recruiting/portal windows
Or just move the season back a month
Nick Saban just made a couple of points on the portal being in December
It is based upon the school year. It allows the players to attend their new school starting in January which allows them to participate in spring practice
NCAA won’t make any changes because they would be sued.
Congress needs to provide national law to provide boundaries
The ideal fix would be a collective bargaining agreement. Hard to do because players do have a union/players group
Missed that one.
Didn’t the Penn State qb just announce he is in the portal. Sure his guys want to send him off with a win.
really ? you’re playing in the CFB with a reasonable shot at winning it and maybe again next year and it’s not good enough ? between the portal and , the ncaa has created a monster.
It was the backup QB for PSU. He didn’t want to but if he stayed he would lose lot of opptys out there. HC supported him n felt terrible abt situation. They must Close the TP during December & CFP period. Basically till end of season. A College Commish is needed in bad way. All Playoffs coaches are complaining.
Some of these guys want that NIL $, pronto. Let’s be honest, most won’t make it in the NFL. Best to try to get as much nil as you can.
Now that the players hit the portal the coaches want to more it until after the Natty.
But when coaches were jumping ship it was all good.
Bowl games will be around as long as they are profitable (like everything else). What makes them profitable is mostly TV distantly followed by attendance.
I think the bowl games are simply more football for people who enjoy college football. I mostly watch the games that interest me, but occasionally I’ll stumble across a game (like the Ohio-Jax St game mentioned in this thread) that is entertaining.
It stinks if your team loses key players before a bowl game, but until they change the rules it’s part of the landscape. The vast majority of bowls are glorified exhibition games, anyway, but they can be fun. I just want to see the Coogs in a bowl again!
It can’t due to…schools calendar. By Jan 20th some/most universities are back in session,
Ya want to get things royally screwed up? Let Congress get involved.
Honestly,
It doesn’t surprise me if the bowl games die off. The playoffs, NIL, and the portal are the forces that will put an end to them (or at a minimum, slow down their expansion). Players won’t risk playing in them if they “don’t count” (which non-playoff bowls will be) and only provide more health risks than anything else, particularly if the player wants to go to the portal (possibly for NIL reasons), or doesn’t want to risk an NFL career blowing out a knee at the “Whatever” bowl.
The reason that bowls existed in the first place was as a draw for teams to play that normally don’t play, sponsored by a business interest and a Chamber of Commerce in a town with a large enough stadium for a needed boost in tourism dollars from out-of-towners somehow associated with the colleges (that’s why a team had to “travel well”). Of course, it needed to be the “best of the best” (most times): a Conference champion against another Conference champion, and usually the city was in the Sun Belt - not up North - so those fans wouldn’t freeze going there to watch the game. The bowls provided fan insight into these teams they didn’t normally see during the regular season. In other words - an economic model of the 1920s - 1940s/50s (mostly). And if you look at the more prestiguous bowls and how they started (and even the less prestiguous ones), you see that exact model.
The economics of NCAA football (and American economics in general) has moved on. Yeah, it sucks, but I don’t see a credible way of it coming back.
If I was a bowl chairman, given the way the economics has evolved, I’d start looking at hosting college teams in the pre-conference/early season lineups, and forget about the end-of-season stuff. There’d be more interest in the early games than the end of season games.
Worthy idea and basketball has proven it can be successful. Bowl games are associated with the Holydays. This would be a drastic change.
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