What Does A Bowl Game Mean To You?

and, unlike Mizzou, the Jayhawks have managed to win a few in recent years. But there are too many of them. I’d rather play well in a decent bowl (which means you won 8 or 9 games) and lose than finish 6-6 or 7-5 and blow the game when you’re a heavy favorite.
Of course, Mizzou won more than 9 games and still played in a crap bowl.

still waiting to see if Mizzou was able to do that.

It shows the nation that you are an average to good to really good team. It allows you to play on that television thing in front of a national audience, gets your name out there, allows your fans and alumni to travel some place warm (unless its that retarded bowl in Idaho). It gives you extra practice time, gives your players confidence and some sort of reward, etc etc.

I don’t think they are a real big deal, especially the mediocre ones. A playoff is needed because in the end, only one bowl game counts for anything. BUT (and this is the kicker), its all about skrilla to me. IF the bowl game makes money for the schools involved and the town hosting it, I’m all for it. If it turns a negative profit, I think its a bad idea.

And thats the bottom line with bowls, or at least thats what it should be

It’s a nice reward for having at least a decent team. I just think there are too many of them. The 35 we have this year is way too much. I would like to see an 8-team playoff with about 20 other bowl games. The top 50 or so teams out of 120 earn themselves a nice trip to a warmer climate and an extra month of practice.

To me, I rank them higher than your average non conference game and lower than meaningful conference wins. For example, thinking back to the 2005 season, the biggest memory that sticks out to me from that season is snapping the streak against Nebraska. I honestly don’t remember much of anything about the nonconference slate that year, but I do remember blowing out Houston in the Ft. Worth Bowl (or whatever it was called at that time).

Take Mizzou’s game last night, I don’t have any real evidence but I know that outside of local people I follow on twitter, there weren’t many tweets about that game. ESPN barely showed highlights. The way they’re all spread out now really makes it hard to follow, which in the end takes away from the “get on tv for recruits” aspect.

Maryland and E. Carolina are finishing the Military Bowl right now, a Wednesday afternoon. Outside of hardcore college football fans and the fans of the schools, who cares about any of the bowls outside of the BCS (and maybe just the NC game)?

darrell wyatt may be leaving us to go to Texas…..