Bowling

One of the arguments for the college bowl system remaining as it stands is that the sport has the best regular season of any sport and that it shouldn’t be tampered with. Perhaps. But college football easily has the worst postseason of any major sport. How can you claim that the winner of tonight’s game is the true national champion? They have as much claim as any other team, I suppose. But what about USC? What about Texas? What about Utah? There are too many questions still remaining.

The college bowl system offers very little to the average viewer. The national championship game is worth watching, though it is clearly flawed. A handful of other games are worth the effort. And if you follow a team closely, their bowl is worth watching. But after that, nothing. Easily the worst postseason of any sport.

For the record, I have never been to a Tennessee bowl game but I do watch them on television. They go to them too often to travel to any game that doesn’t have the highest stakes. And those games price out the average household like mine. But I did go to Vanderbilt’s bowl this year. It’s probably not something I’ll be seeing again anytime soon. And I only had to travel three hours. So I did make the effort to go and see a few long lost friends.