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Inaugural Irrelevant Bowl Announced For 2024 Celebrating Two Teams Suffering Through Dismal Seasons

Hall of Fame Promoter Roy Englebrecht Believes New Bowl Game Matching Up College Football’s Bottom Feeders Will Be Huge Hit Similar To “Mr. Irrelevant” Title

 
 

Newport Beach, Calif. (January 10, 2023) – With the bowl season now complete, it’s time to stop celebrating mediocrity and .500 teams winning games against other 6-6 teams. It’s time for the Irrelevant Bowl!

 

Newport Beach’s Roy Englebrecht, an innovator and Hall of Fame promoter, has come up with a concept that college football coaches, players, media and fans are sure to latch on to, just like they’ve done with the title of “Mr. Irrelevant – awarded at the end of the NFL Draft and celebrating the last player selected.

 

“No polls, no rankings, no controversy, just two winless or near winless teams looking for redemption and one elusive win,” said Englebrecht, who hopes to launch the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl in 2024. “Knowing that the NCAA has become more flexible with the number of team’s wins to qualify for a bowl, I will petition the NCAA asking them to grant a waiver in 2024 so that two teams would be eligible to play in the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl.”

 

It all started four decades earlier with the naming of the first “Mr. Irrelevant” – a title no college football player wanted. Dayton wide receiver Kelvin Kirk was the 487th pick in the 1976 NFL Draft and dubbed “Mr. Irrelevant” after being selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yet what former NFL receiver Paul Salata began all those years ago has become a phenomenon for players who may have started at the bottom, but who were celebrated for making it to the big show.

 

If there had been an Irrelevant Bowl played this past December, it would have “featured” 2-10 Vanderbilt facing 1-11 Akron. The Irrelevant Bowl will provide six figure payouts to two teams, along with team travel, team loading lodging, and team meals in a host city to be determined. And should either of the last two teams picked pass on playing, the next lowest team would be invited.

 

To be considered as a host city for this monumental event, a city would place a bid in the first quarter of 2024 covering lodging and meals for the two teams, all stadium expenses, and a $1,000,000 site fee. The host city would retain all event revenue including ticket sales, concessions sales, and parking revenue.

 

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Funny enough, I would probably watch it just to see how bad those teams really are.

Might be more apt named the "Train wreck" Bowl, but how can it be any worse than some of those really bad 6-6 vs 6-6 bowl games?

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9 minutes ago, WBT said:

Stupid and teams wouldn't show up

this.  no coach or school is going to want to highlight how shitty their team is.

you could pick the last 2 out(5-7 teams) and play it at the home stadium but then it isn't really a gimmick.

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51 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

“No polls, no rankings, no controversy, just two winless or near winless teams looking for redemption and one elusive win,” said Englebrecht, who hopes to launch the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl in 2024. “Knowing that the NCAA has become more flexible with the number of team’s wins to qualify for a bowl, I will petition the NCAA asking them to grant a waiver in 2024 so that two teams would be eligible to play in the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl.

I do not see the NCAA agreeing to make two 1-2 win teams eligible for post-season play when they have been such sticklers for the rules about 5-7 teams.

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1 minute ago, Texas Wahoo said:

I do not see the NCAA agreeing to make two 1-2 win teams eligible for post-season play when they have been such sticklers for the rules about 5-7 teams.

They should take the worst 12 and have a playoff.

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42 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

How do they define "worst"?  Just the two FBS teams with the lowest winning percentage?  Surely, there's somebody worse than a 2-10 Vandy team, no?  

This was my first thought exactly. Maybe they could match the worst team (by in-conference record) from the 2 worst conferences (by cross-conference record).

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20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Why not have Texas/Bama play a Consolation Bowl similar to what the NFL had before the merger. 

Can you imagine the opt outs for that?  They can have Texas and Bama play in the Indeed Preferred Walk On Bowl

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Weird shit like this and the Pop Tarts Bowl may be the only viable future for bowls. They get more and more irrelevant every year with opt outs, transfers, and now the 12-team playoff. Get 4 teams all named Wildcats and play a mini-tournament. Combine the rosters of Tulane, Lafayette, and Monroe and see if they can beat LSU.

Why does it have to be so straight-faced? Just turn them into minor league baseball games.

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It's time again to review Beau Vine's perpetually proposed NCAA Bowl Policy!

Rule #1: Each team is allowed to play one postseason game, plus playoff games.

Rule #2: That's it.   Teams can accept bids from existing bowl games, or they can schedule postseason games by themselves.  If UTRGV and Nebraska decide they want to play, they can play in Lincoln, they can play in the Valley, or they can sell the rights to the game to a sponsor and play in a neutral site, eg, the Sonic Tater Tot Bowl from Jenks High School stadium in Jenks, OK.  

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