I've been the most disenchanted with pro and college football I've ever been, and I'm pretty easy going, but this is a level from which it'll never recover.
Been that way for me well before that. My interest in college football ended at around 2010. Loved it in the 1990s and 2000s. Now its a joke. Football as a sport is a joke in fact. No sport interests me less aside from women's sports.
Pro is a joke now. Replay, kickoff touchbacks, etc. And I’ve lost interest in college with portal, opt outs, every other play a five minute targeting review.
There seems to now be more commercials than actual football. I’ve watched college football since the 1960’s. I miss the days when the bowls didn’t have sponsor names attached to them and the announcers (Keith Jackson was best) didn’t constantly try to inject the sponsors name during the game.
Yes" commercial marathon" is what i call college football now. And yes Keith Jackson was the Best and i Loved his commentary" Whoa Nelly" !!! I miss him Greatly.
I think there was some study done on a typical NFL game. There are only about 13-15 minutes of action. So, the other 3+ hours of a broadcast is the inaction between plays and commercials. College football is even worse with commercials.
@@damiensteele7663 I saw something on this and I want to say it was a British guy who did it. He didn't understand our obsession with football because there is so much down time whereas in soccer the action is pretty much non-stop. But yea, take out all the huddles, timeouts, penalties, reviews, etc and actual action time is around 12 minutes. I've stopped watching as it has become unbearable for me.
Especially when there are literal 5-7 teams making bowl games. Even when I was a kid (born in 2000) the major bowl game were HUGE. Watching Boise state vs Oklahoma was incredible. There was no such thing as opt outs pre playoffs
There are 43 bowl games, and 133 Division one football programs. That means 86 times go bowling. If you are one of those 47 teams not playing in a bowl. You must have really stunk up your season.
It reminds me of when the NFL had a 16 game regular season for each team, and sometimes an 8-8 or 7-9 team would make the playoffs. It was really laughable when that happened, or now a 8-9 NFL team making the playoffs with a 17 game reason. The same should apply to college football. No winning record should = no bowl game. Get rid of some bowl games.
There’s just way too many of these bowl games for them to feel like it’s something special. There’s no history and tradition in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl or the Bad Boy Mowers Bowl like there is for the Orange Bowl and the Rose Bowl. You don’t get any glory for beating another 6-6 team right before Christmas when everyone is watching their favorite Christmas movies and the NFL playoff race is heating up
My grandfather played in a Cotton Bowl game. It's been going on since 1937 and had relevance. But the announcers keep insisting it's the Goodyear Bowl', which is effing annoying.
Well they have one now called the Pop Tart Bowl so how’ that going to work out in another 20 years when you tell your kids or Gran kids you played in the Pop Tart Bowl 🤣 just crazy I mean can you imagine all those years ago back in the 50’s, 60’s 70’s 80’s and even the 90’s if you would have told any of us the Bowl games were going to have names like these one day we would have all laughed at the notion.
At a family gathering on Tuesday there was bowl game playing in the background featuring a team with a 5-7 record. The bowl was named for a company I never heard of.
And the sponsors often change each year. The closest bowl game to me is the Independence in Shreveport. It was once considered (around here anyway) to be the worst bowl. It certainly isn't the worst by far now. At one point it was the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. Seems like it's something different but equally stupid all the time
Creeping socialism. Up and coming business sponsor bowls and millions enjoy it. But the damn commies qho hate business and our way of life want to hurt bowl towns that benefit from the exposure and tourists.
Transfer portal and players heading to the NFL. They don’t wanna play. Has killed bowl season. They have been unwatchable. Sad where college football is going
say it started with clowny would have been first pick in draft but nfl doesnt allow that😮 so to not reallly play pisses head coach off but you gonna make millions though if you dont play
I live in the Auburn Al area and had season tickets for years but with the NIL and transfer portal I have come to the conclusion that college football has become a minor pro league and I have nowhere the interest I once had.
My Dad said the same thing - should be a minor league system. No college athletes should be getting paid. My family is from central Alabama and I've always been a Tide fan. At least we have some great Iron Bowl memories - but I'm about done with it.
@@danielcorreard3746 Happy New Year. They had 9 regular bowl games (Rose, Cotton, Tangerine, Orange, Sugar, Gator, Sun, Bluebonnet, & Liberty) and the Jr. Rose Bowl (it's last year until '76). This is from 1968.
YES! And most of them were on January 1, New Year's Day, some of them being played simultaneously, so you had to flip channels between ABC, NBC, and CBS. Thank goodness remotes were invented! LOL! But yeah, each of those games meant something. Nowadays, out of 43 "bowl" games, I watch maybe three.
@@danielcorreard3746 The big games back then were the Rose, Cotton, Sugar, and Orange bowls, but there were 6 or 7 lesser bowls, such as the Fiesta Bowl, Gator Bowl, and some I can't remember right now.
There should only be 4 bowl games period. Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, and the Orange Bowl. Those were the only ones that mattered in the 80s and early 90s. I don't even watch football of any kind anymore, actually I don't watch any sports anymore
paulthehammerpiglosi7897 Exactly why did the Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl (once again, a very masculine name for a football game) and the Orange Bowl matter? What were the winners of those games the champions of?
What a dumb comment what about the other schools and players plus freshman/sophomore who worked hard to make a bowl game way to discredit the season and defund it
@@TheNewsInASL because they were the best 4 teams in the country and they mattered because there were only 4 major bowls it made regular season much more important. It was also just better because that's what I grew up with
I’ve always said the College National championship should be like the NFL, have playoff brackets and the teams that lose go to the bowl games, the winning team advance forward in the playoffs, that way even small schools have a chance to be College Football Champions.
KC you helped me thru some dark days and times this year. "Butt Bongo Bowl" is one of most hilarious terms I ever heard. Happy New Year to you and your family.
I miss the days when the big 5 New Year's day games were the Cotton, Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, and Orange Bowls, with the traditional conference affiliations.
"Blame the networks...blame the NCAA..." True. Also blame the fans. When we stop watching and buying tickets for ALL games, then change will happen quickly.
I have no clue how I came across your channel. I've only seen the last week, week or 2. I dont really know your history, but I feel like you're going to be okay cause the world is full of idiots in high places that love to show that they are idiots. Keep push forward and growing.
I beg to differ KC. I think the players owe a debt of gratitude to their team, coaches and schools for having had the opportunity to play. This opportunity to play is what got them a shot at the NFL. Sitting out a meaningless bowl game is low grade dogshit on a human level. Sports in this country are low grade dogshit across the board. I agree with you that greed is the root problem.
I disagree. I think the NCAA owes a debt of gratitude to the players who until 2021 got completely fucked in the ass until NIL deals became a thing. These Universities, TV stations, ect. make hundreds of millions of dollars a year promoting these sports, selling merchandise, getting lucrative mega-conference TV contracts, off of a bunch of 18 year olds, and the players never got a thing in return besides their tuition getting paid for, and that was only about $7500 of tuition a year for most in state tuition at the time. When I was an ROTC cadet in college, I got $650/month stipend, that was it. That wasn't even enough to pay for my half of the rent with another room-mate, but I was expected to commit 50-60 hours a week to ROTC on top of my academic commitments. Fuck the NCAA. A bunch of old hacks who have never stepped onto a football field get to decide a $750 Million Dollar profit distribution for the CFP, and that decision is based solely on politics and greed. You should be applauding the FSU students who sat out the Orange Bowl, as they were the only ones that had the courage and strength to stand up to corporate greed and politics. A bunch of 18-20 year olds had more bravery and spine than anybody else on this forum, including myself. If you want to talk about dogshit and the lowest form of human life, look at E$PN and Greg $ankey, which is where all the criticism in this situation belongs.
I'm not reading that screed. If you buy into grown men acting like petulant children go for it. That's why they act like children in the NFL today. Men are going extinct in this garbage woke world. I don't watch sports anymore so really doesnt matter to me. Did you see my other post where three full scholarship players showed up at Appalachian state. They were illiterate. That's fucced up in my opinion. Those who try to live without standards, honor and integrity will find nothing but misery. Money is destroying sports at all levels. The money changers took over and they do what they have done since biblical times. They pervert everything they touch.@@bolt6823
Go Dawgs! Yes, that was the Conciliation Bowl. We get snubbed because we lose in a conference championship game to a 1-loss team and FSU, who was overall undefeated, gets snubbed because the CFP wanted a school that was found cheating and two 1-loss teams in the playoffs. This caused so much of an uproar that there are current lawsuits against the CFP.
I don't see why they can't just let the bowl season play out like it did back in the day with all of the conference affiliations, then have a championship game between the number 1 and 2 teams in the poll. Basically, the same thing as now except there's no official selection committee apart from the voters. That way, the top bowl games would have meaning and would be a de facto playoff. Having a 12-team playoff is a terrible idea. Teams will be playing an NFL-length schedule now if they make a deep playoff run.
You're right. Too many meaningless bowl game, but it's been like that since the 1980s starting with the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. And it's been down hill every since. TV and Cable network greed.
It's just as bad here in Texas with high school football playoffs. Losing records abound. But coaches get to put "Playoffs" on their resumes. All about money and participation trophies.
I saw this coming when they allowed if not engineered the whole 3 year cheat to Monetize the Game ... ended up demonitizing all of college Ball. The BULLDOGS were the only big show. No one likes the bowels or CFL Champ Series; Playoff Baloney sandwiches, every year.
That’s why you have to roll the bowl games into the playoff system. Smaller bowls are the earlier playoff rounds and the bigger bowls are the later rounds and the Championship game. It’s not too hard to figure out. At least on paper. 😉
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Bowl games don’t have a home team and thus have little interest outside of the biggest games. And they’re played several weeks after the regular season which is moronic. And the insane number of bowl games is crazy. Totally broken system.
When i was growing up in the 70,'s there were only 6. Now they've screwed up everything because everybody's got to have a participation trophy. What a Joke
If you are on a team, you PLAY for the team, if physically able. If you don't want to play, you lose scholarship, all privileges, and take your spoiled rotten behind somewhere else immediately (don't let the door hit you on the way out). Yes the establishment has made it easy to be selfish, but you are being paid to play, even if its only a scholarship (still darn valuable). The golden goose that is college football is very tarnished right now. Thankfully there are FCS, D2, D3, NAIA and others that keep the light shining.
Bigger than just the bowl games is this: I worked very hard for my BS and then MS degrees and it grates on me to know that these guys are being awarded college degrees when many of them wouldn't make it past their freshman year if they weren't athletic. I might be wrong, but at least Ivy League players are actual college-grade people who also are athletes. This latter group deserves respect and attention.
Stop calling it college football or basketball, and start calling it minor-league football or basketball. Student-athletes? ROFLMAO. When was the last time a big-name college superstar was declared ineligible because of poor grades? When was the last time a high school superstar athlete was not admitted to a big name university because of low grades or SAT scores? C'mon, some of da brothers from da 'hood can barely read, yet if they are top-level football or basketball recruits, that doesn't matter.
By that argument a draft able player is playing meaningless games practically half their seasons once they’re declared a draft prospect unless they’re playing for about 6 different programs. The vast majority of bowls have been overall meaningless forever this isn’t something new.
My dad played in the Cotton, Sugar, and Gator Bowls in the late 50s with Georgia Tech. You are right. It is greed. But it starts with NIL, the transfer portal without a year penalty, and everybody thinks they are going to play at the next level. They don't realize that these are the best years of their lives and they will regret it. I quit watching the NFL, and now I've almost completely given up on college football. I hate it. I hope Alabama wins the national championship every year from this point forward. College football deserves it just like the NFL deserves Taylor Swift and sucky rigged referees. Makes me sick!
@@kerrytodd3753People can call me whatever they want, I will say the following anyway. I can't stand effeminate single mom black culture. I don't want it on my TV, I don't want that shit anywhere near my kids. Sports is something I no longer follow. It's not about the team anymore, it's peacocking men acting like 13 year old girls with tiktok brain.
@@kerrytodd3753 I quit watchin the NFL, also. Mainly because of the multi-millionaire players disrespecting our national anthem. I record some bowl games but mainly FF thru them. What bugs me is the changing of the bowl game names to a sponsor name and that sponsor sees that as a chance for a three hour commercial. Case in point:The pop tart bowl which made me to never eat a pop tart. Ditto the cheezeit bowl where announcers were reduced to wearing a cheezeit belt around their shoulders.
You rather glaringly overlooked one other factor in the ridiculous expansion of the bowl game system, and it's ALSO greed: The fact that the bowl games constitute a gigantic tax break for the universities and the donor class. They can all go to hell.
Peach, orange, rose, gator....there was about 8 when I was a kid late 70s early 80s. You could watch all of them and knew who was playing. How long since the college regular season ended?
It’s not football folks, it’s the people in and around football today that’s the problem. This video is a good example! Gripping, complaining and hyping things up and putting things down goes on continuously.
I'm old enough to remember when these college bowl games were entertaining: Rose Cotton Orange Fiesta Sugar Now, college bowl games are a saturated, watered-down corporate cash grab.
Greed - totally. I disagree with 'there are too many bowls'. I think these kids like playing football, but they do want it to mean something. So, lets not run the CFP while the bowl games are playing. Use the bowl games as the quarter and run the Final Four of CFB after the bowl games so the bowl games have meaning.
We NEVER needed a playoff to begin with! Now they’re going to a ridiculous a 12 team playoff next year. The college football regular season WAS the best of any sport! All that we needed was a possible +1 game. Which basically is a system where AFTER the bowl games are played if you have two teams that are STILL undefeated (which is rare) they would play to determine the champion. It’s that simple. We have turned the regular season into a meaningless waste of time.
There’s way to much money involved to even think about slowing it down. Will get worse from here as the dollar amounts continue to grow, unfortunate as it sounds. What about both Georgia and Florida St canceling the game the night before the game?, other than the folks who made ticket and room reservations, travel plans and such the ncaa would have to acknowledge this disaster. The bowl sponser would lose millions of dollars
I detected a lack of meaning in the bowl games back when the BCS first started. The playoff should be eliminated. Return to having champions of each conference play each other in their traditional bowl game. You bring foundational value back to the conferences. On a side note…it kills me that the PAC 12 is now gone.
Forget the PI, nobody is talking about the 15 yards for Mahomes hit inbounds. He was laughing knowing he was given a cheap extra yards. As for the fix, it’s not necessarily the league, but definitely the officials working the game.
@@Shawn6751Kirby Smart stole the entire postseason with his speech after the Orange Bowl. And that is Kirby Smart. He actually hated it for the FSU players that did show up. He wasn’t going hold back his players but he did have sympathy for the FSU team that did show up.
Lol i went to the LA bowl game a few weeks ago. Way too big of a stadium so it was just the bottom even though it was a ucla game but even rose bowl home games are always empty. It should easily just be 8 win teams or the top 32 teams an 12 in college playoff.
College football needs to have set parameters for the playoffs, instead of this playoff selection committee. D1 football needs to have either 8 or 16 teams in a set playoff guideline. No byes and definitely NO SELECTION COMMITTEE
When you can predict the winner every year or at least the finalist for the college football season no amount of playoffs or committees can make it interesting.
I like the ole days when you had the end of season Bowl Games. Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta for the Top teams. The Gator, Liberty, Peach, Sun, Holiday and a few others for the 7,8 & 9 win teams. The Bowl games back then did mean something. When you had around 30 plus teams playing in Bowl games it was fun. New Year’s Day we got to see all the games and top players, maybe the Heisman winner as well. Teams had a chance to go out on top by being a Bowl winner and maybe a team moved up in the National rankings. The regular season ment something and even if two teams finished undefeated and didn’t get to play so what ? The ÁP Poll may have one at the top and the UPI Coaches poll may have another, so what ! The Bowl games sold out and people had something to talk about. Now all people care about is the top four teams and that’s it. Next season I guess it will grow to 8. That will only make the other Bowl games more irrelevant. The playoff system hasn’t helped College Football.
Now that a more reasonable playoff is in the picture, those 12 teams are playing important games. Now it is time to scale back the bowl games and use them for what they were supposed to be, an experience for the players that earned it. Bowl games are important to the fan base.
I have to agree with you about college sports. Aside from being woke, it seems that all sports are about money. I have now not watched any sports pro and college for five years. Any body who watches sports must see this. I now have so much spare time I was able to build a home-built airplane. I do not miss sports, period.
Unless I have missed something what makes everyone think that players who are projected as a first rd pick, especially a top 10 projection, will not op-out of the CFP starting next year. Your looking at an extra 3-4 weeks of practice and games.
Frosted Flakes bowl!!!😂😂😂😂!!!!! 6 win season teams should be home WATCHING!!!! WIN 9 games and get a bowl game!!! Theses kids should use these bowl games as a stage to showcase their skills on national television against an opponent that they wouldn't necessarily play!!!! Big bowl games should be for the big teams in a playoff setting... . Also, kids shouldn't be allowed to opt out until AFTER the season!!! Not just before the FINAL game of the season!!!! That's nutty... let's get this playoff format going!!!
Ummm....why not let a player decide to sit out the last half a season with a bad team is the player so desires? If a player is receiving a scholarship, and/or receiving NIL money; I think the University should sue the player for breach of contract (obviously, I know that's a stretch, and would never happen) if he's not going to play when healthy. I would like for a pro team to ask the question to a drafted player "You bailed on your team in a bowl game last years, are you going to bail on us during a bad season"? And the Bowl games.... still remember only about a dozen in the mid-70s. And now; I don't even watch the playoffs because I dropped cable and refuse to stream/pay.
I long for the days when the rose bowl, sugar bowl, cotton bowl and orange bowl were all played on New Year’s Day. That ended the college bowl games. So friggen tired of the greed that college football has turned into. I have watched 3 bowl games so far. The NFL is the same way. To many games. Having the Super Bowl in February is a joke. Rather be in Arizona playing golf then.
Yeah you know how many non power 5 colleges got invited to bowl games in 1995? 4 did. That's it, so you are just trying to keep the money up top gotcha. Only power 5 schools should have a post season. Until we get a true playoff system the honors conference championship and ever school, screw the elite crap schools. Bowls are for keeping the stadiums open in smaller markets and helping those towns survive. If you go back to 20 bowl games you will destroy the old college game. It's a easy fix make 2 playoffs. The 12 and the others. Like a NIT football playoff. Yes greed is the evil killing cfb. Bowl games are not.
I've said for the past couple of years that college football needs to eliminate conferences. Instead, set up 3 divisions in FBS. A "Blue Blood" division that includes 40 heavy hitters like Alabama, Norte Dame, etc perhaps using all time wins as a guide. Then a 2nd division of the next 40 or so in all time wins, and so on. Then every four years, do what they do in European soccer...relegation and promotion among the 3 divisions
KC is so right. CFB is so bad, this is one of the very few BTL videos I've had to come back to and try to finish. Still gets a 👍🏻 and share, not KC's fault polishing the CFB turd isn't enough. GO BUCKS! 😅
Sorry, but other than the "national championship bowl," bowl games have always been meaningless. What were the teams in the "Independence Bowl" playing for? Their independence? Nope. It was just another bowl game that made one team the champions of... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! College football should have a playoff system like the playoff system of college basketball, baseball, and even hockey. It's not as much that "less is more" as it is that football fans are DUMB! The winner of the Rose Bowl (a very masculine name for a football game) is no more a national champion than the winner of the Cereal Bowl, the Salad Bowl, or the Soup Bowl. If you want to do the "Less is more" thing, at least do it right. Eight teams get selected for a playoff, and that's it for the college football postseason. If that's not enough football for fans, maybe less isn't more, and there should be more games in the season. As far as bowl games being "consolation prizes," under the old system, what was every bowl game that wasn't the national championship game? A "Consolation Prize Bowl." The only reason any "Consolation Prize Bowl" ever meant anything was that the media said that it did.
I am totally disenchanted with the current state of college football, and if this is not fixed, I will write it off like I have done with professional football and basketball. An I DO think that the transfer portal and NIL are the driving forces behind this mess. Here are my suggestions: (1) Give each player an "allowance" of $1,000 per month, paid for by the football program revenues and do completely away with NIL. If they take money besides the allowance, they lose their scholarship. For some, this may in fact be worth it because of the amounts involved, which is a win-win for both the player and the school since it frees up a scholarship. (2) No school transfers before the bowl games are completed, and each school must provide a list of players opting out BEFORE the bowl assignments are made. That travesty of a "game" between Georgia and FSU should never have happened. (3) Each player gets one free school transfer to a school of their choice (assuming the school agrees) unless the head coach or the coach that recruited them leaves. There needs to be a review board that can look at the justifications for an additional transfer(s). (4) For basketball, the scholarship is tied up for two years. If a hot-shot player is recruited by a school and only stays for one season, that scholarship is not available the following year. This should cut down on coaches recruiting "one and done" players and it should cut down on coaches running off players so a better player can fill that scholarship. We can do the same with football if it becomes necessary.
1000$ a month to risk their bodys and have their name and likeness taken away from them so the cooperate fat cats making Billions off ticket and merch sells for doing nothing but writing rules ? yea how about no. howw about the NCAA give 100% of merch sells that use players name and likeness to the players , its their Names and pictures being sold not the conferences. 1000 a month isnt even enough to live on.
These players are spoiled, selfish brats who have no pride. Nil has become a problem, and the portal should not open until after January. And yes, you stick with your team and play every last game, even a so-called meaningless bowl.
Watched college football all my life and a diehard Florida Gator fan. However, the opting out and transfer portal caused me to start losing interest. Then what happened to Florida State, Ohio State and a few others, was totally insane. College football has to change, or there will be less attendants at games and less viewers watching games on TV. The Orange Bowl is just the beginning.
Back in the 80 -90's I'd make the drive from winter, snow Toronto to attend and party crazy Orange Bowl game. That will never happen again!! Go The "U" Depending on timing a stop at The Citrus Bowl. Then Bowls were Good and fun!
