IMO, Berry Tramel has a super idea for the 40 bowl games.

[Tennessee66]

It goes like this, with a link that follows.

"The bowl pairings come out Sunday, and it’s been a muddled process. Not enough teams have qualified for the 40 bowls, so college football has had to hold its nose and grant some 5-7 teams access to the post-season.

Don’t you remember the good old days when even some 7-4 teams didn’t make a bowl?

Actually, I have no problem with so many bowls. But I do have a problem with 5-7 teams in the postseason. Here’s my solution: Invite some I-AA teams into bowl games. Invite some Ivy League teams. Let Dartmouth and Harvard play in the Heart of Dallas Bowl or the Camellia Bowl. Invite Grambling State or Prairie View to one of the bowls that can’t fill a slot."

http://newsok.com/bowl-projections-ou-to-cotton-osu-to-houston/article/5464853

 

[John Otterstedt]

I like that. If there are going to be cheap games, make them marquees games.

 

[gtanduga]

Does the NCAA have control over who can have a bowl game or can anyone who can drum up enough corporate dollars have their own bowl game? If so, why don't they step in and either set limits on the number of bowls or as the writer proposed, invite Div. II and Ivy League schools?

I realize cutting bowls would mean less money coming in for the NCAA, but if they did invite D-II and Ivy League teams, the attendance would not be any worse than some of the near-empty stadiums I've seen for the Clog Buster, Kitchen Appliance or Name-Your-City Bowl.

I feel that any D-I team that is south of a 7-5 record should not get a bowl.

 

[phillinois]

Does the NCAA have control over who can have a bowl game or can anyone who can drum up enough corporate dollars have their own bowl game? If so, why don't they step in and either set limits on the number of bowls or as the writer proposed, invite Div. II and Ivy League schools?

I realize cutting bowls would mean less money coming in for the NCAA, but if they did invite D-II and Ivy League teams, the attendance would not be any worse than some of the near-empty stadiums I've seen for the Clog Buster, Kitchen Appliance or Name-Your-City Bowl.

I feel that any D-I team that is south of a 7-5 record should not get a bowl.

I'm all about free enterprise, but come on.
I think eventually the NCAA should establish 'caps' on the number of bowls to prevent this dilution and marginalization of them.

30 bowls...tops. That way you're ensured that they'll all have teams with winning records.
The way it is now some teams are being rewarded for having decidedly mediocre seasons, that is patently wrong. IMO

 

[Rob Lewis_rivals]

I'm all about free enterprise, but come on.
I think eventually the NCAA should establish 'caps' on the number of bowls to prevent this dilution and marginalization of them.

30 bowls...tops. That way you're ensured that they'll all have teams with winning records.
The way it is now some teams are being rewarded for having decidedly mediocre seasons, that is patently wrong. IMO

It makes sense.....but when money talks, sometimes logic is lost.

 

[Soccerpal]

The NCAA members won't go for a reduction. Even though a lot of teams have mediocre seasons, the coaches like the extra practices they are granted for going to a bowl game.