Embrace it!

[Schnauzer]

Change is hard. I get that. There was a certain “coziness” about the bowl system where only two or four teams had to prepare for the games of their lives.

We will lose that coziness. The bowl system and even conference championships seem to be on borrowed time. I will definitely miss the days when the Outback Bowl was an event laced with conference pride.

But here we are. 12 special teams in a playoff (soon to be 16 or more). It has really been fun to see the December excitement of playoff games. Tennessee at Ohio State? Yes please. Even Alabama at Oklahoma. It matters!

Don’t tell me the regular season doesn’t matter anymore. It matters. Things are finally moving in the direction of what makes all sports special. A form of playoff that rejects human opinion in favor of the need to earn a real championship.

I can hardly wait until the Gophers are part of it. It will be light years better than playing on a baseball field with whats’s left of the roster after NFL defections and transfers.

 

[btowngopher]

Nah, it sucks. I’ll accept it, but not going to embrace it. College football was special because it was different. The regular season doesn’t matter like it used to, that’s not even a debate.

 

[ergopher]

I still think bowl games are a lot of fun. Sue me

 

[Some Day...Maybe]

Change is hard. I get that. There was a certain “coziness” about the bowl system where only two or four teams had to prepare for the games of their lives.

We will lose that coziness. The bowl system and even conference championships seem to be on borrowed time. I will definitely miss the days when the Outback Bowl was an event laced with conference pride.

But here we are. 12 special teams in a playoff (soon to be 16 or more). It has really been fun to see the December excitement of playoff games. Tennessee at Ohio State? Yes please. Even Alabama at Oklahoma. It matters!

Don’t tell me the regular season doesn’t matter anymore. It matters. Things are finally moving in the direction of what makes all sports special. A form of playoff that rejects human opinion in favor of the need to earn a real championship.

I can hardly wait until the Gophers are part of it. It will be light years better than playing on a baseball field with whats’s left of the roster after NFL defections and transfers.

I like your optimism that the Gophers will be in it, it’s just not reality.

 

[RememberMurray]

I still think bowl games are a lot of fun. Sue me

Yup.

Have you noticed that people who go on and on about 'meaningless' bowl games spend a lot of energy writing and talking about...

...'meaningless' bowl games?