If you're hatin' the Bowls this year...

Terry O'Keefe · Dec 18, 2008

this article will firm up your position against the Bowl system and for a playoff.

Bowl Boodoggle

College football participates in one of the worst business arrangements imaginable. It outsources its most profitable and easily sold product – postseason football.

After spending an entire year investing in the teams, the system and the publicity to create a can’t-fail product it turns over its sale to an unnecessary third party who cuts nicely into the profits.

Fifty, 60 years ago – heck, maybe just 25 years ago – the fledgling sport of college football needed bowls as much as bowls needed college football. Vacation destinations drew in tourists by scheduling what were essentially exhibition games – the Associated Press used to vote on a champion before the bowls.

Then ESPN came along in the 1980s and changed everything. The sport is bigger, more popular and more national than ever.
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If you're hatin' the Bowls this year...

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