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49 minutes ago, satyanash said:

The Birmingham Bowl finally has a matchup! Hilariously, App State just played Georgia Southern a month ago (they're conference rivals)

 

You know there's too many bowls when you're begging for 5-7 conference rivals to agree to a rematch.

How do these low-end exhibitions make any damn money?

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2 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

I think the horns would be too fragile. You’d have a bunch of polled cows when you open the bag. And a bunch of loose horns clear down at the bottom. 

Those would fly off the shelf in college station

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8 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Let’s check these numbers again in a few years. 

Hell, with those two teams, bet the Citrus bowl gets more eyeballs than a good number of playoff games.

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App St. says "fuck that cold ass weather in Boone.  Let's go to Florida and play ball."  Good for them, they're not scared. Go Mountaineers! 

                                                                                                  ^Alabama ^

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3 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

App St. says "fuck that cold ass weather in Boone.  Let's go to Florida and play ball."  Good for them, They're not scared. Go Mountaineers! 

Birmingham, Florida?

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2 hours ago, randomhorn said:

Birmingham, Florida?

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It was midnight and I should have known better to think I was coherent enough to post something as if I were capable.  Usually, bad things happen to me at that time, my clothes turn into rags, the car becomes a pumpkin and mice, etc.  I sit on a throne of lies.  I'm glad I don't take myself too seriously.  Fixed it.

 

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App St. says "fuck that cold ass weather in Boone.  Let's go to Florida and play ball."  Good for them, they're not scared. Go Mountaineers! 
                                                                                                  ^Alabama ^

As in Birmingham, Sweden.
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17 hours ago, Red Five said:

Why are some of those teams declining bowl bids?

Some like ISU and KSU are in a coaching transition. 

Others have "transitioned to offseason" as in they have pretty much closed up shop and are moving into portal/recruit mode. 

There are too many bowl games.

ND is a bunch of babies.

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Brett McMurphy: LA Bowl will permanently end after Saturday's Washington-Boise State game

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The LA Bowl will end after Saturday’s game between Washington and Boise State, sources told On3. The bowl’s current 6-year contract concludes after this season. The bowl was created in 2020 to be played in SoFi Stadium, pairing up the Mountain West champion against the fifth selection from the Pac-12. The bowl’s fate was ultimately decided when conference realignment gutted the Pac-12 and the league lost 10 schools to the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC.

The bowl was scheduled to debut in 2020, but three weeks before its inaugural game, it was canceled due to COVID-19. In its short five-year history, the LA Bowl has had four different official names: Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk (2025), Art of Sport LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk (2024), Starco Brands LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk (2023) and Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl presented by Stifel (2021–2022).

Besides the LA Bowl, the Bahamas Bowl also will not continue. The Bahamas Bowl was replaced by ESPN in this season’s bowl lineup by the Xbox Bowl in Frisco, Texas.

 

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Sam Neumann: Rick Neuheisel suggests moving bowl games to beginning of season to save them from extinction

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Rick Neuheisel went on The Dan Patrick Show this week and floated an idea about the future of bowl games that sounds insane until you think about the alternative. The former UCLA quarterback and head coach suggested bowl games could move to the beginning of the season instead of the end, functioning as actual competitive matchups rather than the postseason rewards they’ve always been.

It’s radical, but it might be the only way to keep bowl games from disappearing entirely. “I think it’s a sign of the times,” Neuheisel said about Notre Dame opting out of a bowl game. “We saw Iowa State, we saw Kansas State make similar decisions — obviously coaching changes there as part of it. I think bowl games are going to end up being the first game of the year. I think we’re going to see a bunch of these bowls go by the way of the whales. And I also think the College Football Playoff is going to go — as they extended that deadline to Jan. 23 — I think we’re going to go right past 16 all the way to 24.”

Dan Patrick asked him to explain what he meant by bowl games being the first game of the year.

“I think we’re going to have a hard time talking a bunch of teams into playing in the postseason,” Neuheisel continued. “Maybe I’m wrong — and I hope I am — because I remember vividly how much I enjoyed them both as a player and as a coach. I just think in this day of transaction football, where people are coming and going, that there are going to be a lot of teams and we’re going to see a lot of players that aren’t going to participate. And I think that’s a shame. So, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of these bowl games get moved to the front end of a college football season.”

The idea is wild, but college football doesn’t have preseason games. Programs have talked about playing competitive scrimmages instead of spring games, but it hasn’t happened. Moving bowl games to August would solve multiple problems. Teams wouldn’t lose players to the transfer portal or opt-outs. Freshmen would get real game experience. Coaches could sort out position battles before the season starts. And bowl games would still exist instead of dying off entirely.

It would also be completely different from what bowl games have always been. They’ve always been rewards for good seasons, not warm-up games before the season even starts. But Neuheisel’s point is that the current system isn’t working. Notre Dame, Iowa State, and Kansas State all opted out this year. Players are sitting out. Rosters are getting gutted by the portal. At some point, bowls either change or disappear.

Whether moving them to the front of the season is the answer is debatable. But the fact that a former Rose Bowl MVP and head coach is seriously suggesting it tells you how broken things have gotten.

 

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