The bowls want the most profitable teams they can grab, teams want the friendliest destinations (usually in terms of prestige, financial payout, and fan proximity) they can claim, and deals get wheeled during a frantic close.Ī longer answer that you can skip if you want: Short answer: a combination of the bowls and the teams themselves, with conference oversight. Who’s in charge of picking bowl game matchups?
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The whole bowl schedule’s usually spackled into place by that evening, hours before an authority like the Football Bowl Association announces the full list.Ī few will also leak before Sunday, perhaps games involving independents Army or BYU, who sometimes have special deals of their own. They flood out in random bursts throughout the December Sunday right after conference championship weekend. The 62 silliest bowl game names of all time 5. I mean, would you want your company to pay money to sponsor the Dahlonega Bowl between two 6-6 teams on a December weekday at 1 p.m. There are 40, if you count the National Championship. ABC and ESPN broadcast almost all of them, including the whole New Year’s Six, and ESPN even owns about a third of them outright. The shortest answer, these days: Disney makes money off them.
Meanwhile, every other level of college football just has a full playoff.
So we’ve gone from one postseason game to dozens, but now with three forming an FBS semi-tournament.More bowls kept showing up in ever-sillier places. That Pasadena game, the Rose Bowl, is one of them. Almost 100 years after the first bowl, one bowl per year got to call itself the official title game, and in 2014, six bowls started taking turns as playoff semifinals.More bowls showed up, despite gripes about each by people who hate sports. A slick 73 years later, everyone agreed bowls should count toward national title claims.Other areas eventually started up similar exhibitions. To end the 1901 season, a parade in California started inviting the best Eastern team to play the best Western team.For 31 years, college football scheduling was absolute anarchy with no true postseason.So the slapdash, longtime regional sport’s postseason had the silliest evolution imaginable. Long answer: College football started decades before the 1906 formation of the NCAA, the governing body that later instituted postseasons like March Madness in other sports. College football is all oxymorons from top to bottom.
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