● 2018-2018 NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE Dec. 15 - Jan. 7, 2019 ●

[mjp28]

meaningless

adjective

1. without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant:a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.

Last year the top 29 bowl games drew over 2 million viewers with the top 9 over 5 million viewers each that is hardly without meaning, significance, purpose or value......in fact the value is very apparent in both TV, school, local and other benefits including exciting FREE entertainment for football fans everywhere.

Do you REALLY think ESPN, CBSSN, FOX, FS1, ABC would spend millions of dollars to put on meaningless drivel on national television? Not in your lifetime that's for sure!

Now I agree some of the lowest games could and probably should be replaced with Round 1 of a 16 team playoff but we'll see on that wifh the NCAA football brass. It would only make dollars and sense!

Oh MARCH MADNESS is coming soon -or- how to do the postseason right even for those "meaningless" #16, 15, 14.... seeds who have never won the tournament......it isn't meaningless now is it.  

GO COLLEGE SPORTS! Sit back and enjoy it!

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

meaningless

adjective

1. without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant:a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.

Precisely.   

Do you REALLY think ESPN, CBSSN, FOX, FS1, ABC would spend millions of dollars to put on meaningless drivel on national television? Not in your lifetime that's for sure!

Yes....I do believe that.   The question is:  meaningless to what purpose?   These games are meaningless to any real purpose OTHER than as a device to make some money...and to have a  vacation.

Now, I am all for both of these things.   You can send me any money you want...or pay for me to go on a vacation.  I will let you buy my way to see the Rose Bowl...even if it is a meaningless game.

But don't tell me they have the same kind of meaning that these games would have if they were a part of an expanded college football playoff system.

16 teams.......8 first round games....4 2d round, 2 3rd round,   1 Championship game.   They could incorporate  14 of these bowls into the playoff system...(plus the title game)..and then we would have something that would be exponentially more interesting...meaningful......and lucrative.

[mjp28]

Bowl games are also a reward for the teams, fans, schools for having a good or great season.

Meaningless is so harsh!

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL RATINGS, VIEWERSHIP

Viewership in (parentheses): TV+streaming
Comparisons in [brackets]: TV+streaming vs. TV only
Playoff games compared to last year’s playoff games

BOWL	GAME	RTG	VWRS	+/-	DATE/TIME	NET
CFPNC	ALA-UGA	15.6	(28.443M)	+9%	1/8, 8:00 PM	ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU
Rose (Semi)	UGA-OKLA	13.7	(26.913M)	+36%	1/1, 5:00 PM	ESPN & ESPN2 <---- BIG JUMP!
Sugar (Semi)	ALA-CLEM	11.4	(21.473M)	+9%	1/1, 9:00 PM	ESPN & ESPN2
Orange	WISC-MIA	6.3	(11.727M)	+0.3%	12/30, 8:00 PM	ESPN
Fiesta	PSU-WASH	5.7	(10.167M)	+18%	12/30, 4:00 PM	ESPN
Cotton	OSU-USC	5.3	(9.468M)	+71%	12/29, 8:00 PM	ESPN <---- BIG JUMP THERE!
Citrus	ND-LSU	5.1	(8.713M)	[+37%]	1/1, 1:00 PM	ABC <--- AND THERE!
Peach	UCF-AUB	4.6	(8.377M)	+46%	1/1, 12:30 PM	ESPN
Outback	SC-MICH	2.8	(5.050M)	[-17%]	1/1, Noon	ESPN2
Music City	NWSTN-UK	2.8	(4.626M)	[-8%]	12/29, 5:15 PM	ESPN
Gator	MSST-LVILLE	2.7	(4.424M)	[+67%]	12/30, Noon	ESPN
Alamo	TCU-STAN	2.5	(4.368M)	[-5%]	12/28, 9:00 PM	ESPN
Orlando	OKST-VT	2.6	(4.358M)	[+2%]	12/28, 5:15 PM	ESPN
Pinstripe	IOWA-BC	2.3	(4.008M)	[+64%]	12/27, 5:15 PM	ESPN
Liberty	ISU-MEM	2.2	3.438M	+10%	12/30, 12:30 PM	ABC
Texas	TEX-MIZ	2.1	(3.455M)	[-10%]	12/27, 9:00 PM	ESPN
Las Vegas	BOISE-ORE	2.3	3.801M	+2%	12/16, 3:30 PM	ABC
Armed Forces	ARMY-SDSU	2.1	(3.485M)	[+49%]	12/23. 4:00 PM	ESPN
Birmingham	USF-TTU	2.15	(3.397M)	[+47%]	12/23, Noon	ESPN
Cactus	KST-UCLA	n.a.	(3.261M)	[+43%]	12/26, 9:00 PM	ESPN
Belk	WAKE-TA&M	n.a.	(2.957M)	[-40%]	12/29, 1:00 PM	ESPN
Detroit	DUKE-NIU	n.a.	(2.526M)	[-16%]	12/26, 5:15 PM	ESPN
Celebration	NCA&T-GRAM	1.6	2.357M	-13%	12/16, Noon	ABC
Independence	FSU-USM	n.a.	(2.205M)	[+35%]	12/27, 1:30 PM	ESPN
Sun	NCST-ASU	1.5	2.205M	[-25%]	12/29, 3:15 PM	CBS
Dallas	UTAH-WVU	n.a.	(2.204M)	[+36%]	12/26, 1:30 PM	ESPN
San Fran.	PUR-ARIZ	n.a.	2.139M	-19%	12/27, 8:30 PM	FOX
Hawaii	FRES-HOU	1.1	(2.086M)	[+53%]	12/24, 8:30 PM	ESPN
Military	NAVY-UVA	n.a.	(2.052M)	[-2%]	12/28, 1:30 PM	ESPN
Mobile	APPST-TOL	1.0	(1.770M)	[-30%]	12/23, 7:00 PM	ESPN
Holiday	MSU-WSU	n.a.	1.613M	-60%	12/28, 9:00 PM	FS1
St. Pete	TEMP-FIU	1.0	(1.597M)	[-22%]	12/21, 8:00 PM	ESPN
Idaho	WYO-CMU	n.a.	(1.497M)	[+31%]	12/22, 4:00 PM	ESPN
FCS Champ.	NDSU-JMU	1.0	(1.515M)	[-3%]	1/6, Noon	ESPN2
Boca Raton	FAU-AKRON	n.a.	(1.394M)	[-12%]	12/19, 7:00 PM	ESPN
New Orleans	TROY-NTX	0.9	(1.327M)	[-1%]	12/16, 1:00 PM	ESPN
Frisco	LATECH-SMU	n.a.	(1.250M)	[+57%]	12/20, 8:00 PM	ESPN
New Mexico	MARSH-CSU	0.75	(1.212M)	[-13%]	12/16, 4:50 PM	ESPN
Camellia	MTSU-AKST	0.7	(1.187M)	[-20%]	12/16, 8:30 PM	ESPN
Bahamas	OHIO-UAB	n.a.	(882K)	[-36%]	12/22, 12:30 PM	ESPN
Div II Champ.	TA&MC-WFLA	0.36	(626K)	[+84%]	12/16, 6:00 PM	ESPN2

Just a second here....you list the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl as being part of the playoff system.....yet I understand that Ohio State and Washington are to play in the Rose Bowl, and that Georgia and.....I forget...someone....are to play the Sugar.

So...WTF is up with that?

[mjp28]

@the-gipper said:

Just a second here....you list the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl as being part of the playoff system.....yet I understand that Ohio State and Washington are to play in the Rose Bowl, and that Georgia and.....I forget...someone....are to play the Sugar.

So...WTF is up with that?

I think the major bowls do rotate things but I don't really get into it that deep....I just wait for the draws to come out.

Once again I wish they had 8+ plus teams this year including OSU and maybe Michigan........ but better than two, oh well......

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

Bowl games are also a reward for the teams, fans, schools for having a good or great season.

Meaningless is so harsh!

Meaningless to anything of meaning.  FYI...some schools lose money going to some bowl games.

[The Gipper]

Here is the system they need:

First round games:

Tampa Bowl ???   (now called Outback...I want to get rid of all sponsor names) Tampa Fla

Holiday Bowl....San Diego

Gator Bowl....Jacksonville

Alamo Bowl...San Antonio

Sun Bowl....El Paso

Blubonnet Bowl   Houston  (yes, bring back that name)

Bay Area Bowl....SF/Santa Clara

Las Vegas Bowl....Las Vegas

Second round games:

Peach Bowl...Atlanta

Citrus Bowl....Orlando

Cotton Bowl...Dallas

Fiesta Bowl...Phoenix

Semi-finals:

Sugar Bowl...New Orleans

Orange Bowl...Miami

Championship game:

Rose Bowl....Pasadena.       

The Rose Bowl has always been the oldest, greatest Bowl...and should always maintain supremacy among bowl games

[mjp28]

OHIO U 20 SDS 0 3rd quarter........go Bobcats!

[Axe]

The Gasparilla Bowl bowl tonight should be a real blast.. We've had 5+" of rain today.. That and predicted 25-30 mph winds tonight should be a real treat for the teams that are being rewarded

[mjp28]

[mjp28]

GO WOLVERINES & GAMECOCKS!.......

.........geeezzzz that seems so strange. But GO BIG TEN!

[mjp28]

@mjp28 said:

GO WOLVERINES & GAMECOCKS!.......

.........geeezzzz that seems so strange. But GO BIG TEN!

Uh-oh, m starting the big game choke-o.

UF 20-10 and VIR 21-0. 

......... UF 27-10, D'OH, not again!

[TexasAg1969]

Texas A&M   52      NC St.    13        SEC, SEC,SEC!?

Texas A&M started the 12th man tradition almost 100 years ago and Sherrill refined it with an all 12th man KO team with a schollie safety added. Now one position on the KO team is competed for by non-schollie students. This guy has been it for 4 years so as a reward they made him the blocking back in the I when they use it occasionally. To honor his 4 years representing the Heart of the Team, the 12th man in the stands, they gave it to him to run on the last A&M play of the game and go crazy for him with what he does. College football at it's emotional best, even for the coaches.

[mjp28]

@mjp28 said:

GO WOLVERINES & GAMECOCKS!.......

.........geeezzzz that seems so strange. But GO BIG TEN!