We are right in the middle of yet another bowl season full of lopsided match ups and blowouts, teams half interested in being where they are, and a plethora of teams being coached by guys who won't be there next fall. In a nutshell, the bowl system is a trash heap that needs immediate fixing. Getting rid of the glut of horrible bowls is first up in repairing that issue. Here are fifteen games that need to go away and not be replaced...
Cure Bowl
Seriously, college football was better off when bowl slots were limited, and every bowl game meant more because they were hard to come by. Nobody cares about two mid-tier CUSA and Sun Belt teams in early December. Attendance is low, and ratings are artificially inflated. Not the worst of the bunch, but it goes in the garbage bin for me.
New Mexico Bowl
Albuquerque is not exactly what I call a vacation hot spot in December. It's played so early in the bowl season that most people forget that it's even a thing. We can do better.
Camellia Bowl
Here is another trash bowl played in a rickety looking stadium that is barely passable for most high school games. Attendance, again, was bad, and I am guessing that when all was said and done, this game gets played at a loss for all parties.
Boca Raton Bowl
This game basically replaces the California Bowl of old. With no PCAA/Big West anymore, CUSA took up the slack to play the MAC champ. except that the game could not draw the MAC champ. I could be argued into keeping this one, if we moved it to a post Christmas date, and by getting the actual MAC champ involved, not the runner up.
Frisco Bowl
The stadium is a shoe box, it's not really in Frisco, and that venue already hosts the FCS title game. Get rid of it.
Gasparilla Bowl
I don't even want to know what Gasparilla is supposed to be, and it gets played in a baseball venue. That is an automatic cut for me.
Bahamas Bowl
Pure garbage bowl, usually with teams that don't want to be there. UAB was a nice get this season, but they laid a massive egg. Nobody in the Bahamas goes to this game, and the teams involved are notoriously bad travelling teams. It's a TV eyesore.
Dollar General Bowl
The title says it all for me. The MAC champs deserve a better landing spot than this.
Hawaii Bowl
Used to be called the Aloha Bowl when it got much better teams attached to it, but nobody cared about it then either. Nobody wants to sit in that dumpy old Aloha Stadium on Christmas Eve, and nobody wants the expense of travelling there during the holidays.
Heart of Dallas Bowl
The Cotton Bowl is the big cheese in the greater Dallas area, and this game is just an excuse to keep the old, rotting Cotton Bowl open.
Quick Lane Bowl
Bowl game locales should be viewed as a reward. Detroit is not that.
Cactus Bowl
Again, the Fiesta Bowl is the big game in Phoenix, and again, it's played in a baseball venue. No thanks.
Pinstripe Bowl
Baseball venue. Crap. Freezing temps. Crap. Market that does not value college football on any level. More crap.
Foster Farms Bowl
San Francisco is hardly a college football hot bed. They could not even sell out the PAC-12 title game, and Stanford was a participant. With a new stadium going up in LA, this game may eventually need to go away.
Arizona Bowl
The state of Arizona simply does not need three bowl games, and the match up, Utah State/New Mexico State, hardly inspires anyone to give a damn. New Mexico State is a decent story, but let's be real, they are still barely eligible for a bowl bid to begin with, so what exactly are we celebrating here?
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