The Year College Football Ate Itself ...

[R1Letterman]

Since the NOLA Bowl was created in 2001 mainly for the SBC champ, another 21 bowl games were added. 21!!! Doubling the number of bowl games. Almost one new bowl per year, mainly ESPN driven. Yet WAC and Big East football disappeared during this time and PAC 12 is biting the dust. It could be argued college football, with big assist from media conglomerates, began eating itself 20 years ago.

Great post.... so when the powers that be whine and complain that there are too many bowls and the teams in the bowls dont deserve to be there, shouldnt NOLA bowl be exempt from that critiscism since it was on the scene before the over saturation

[HoustonCajun]

Great post.... so when the powers that be whine and complain that there are too many bowls and the teams in the bowls dont deserve to be there, shouldnt NOLA bowl be exempt from that critiscism since it was on the scene before the over saturation

The NOLA Bowl would be a great G5 National Championship game. What's better than the Superdome and New Orleans?

[R1Letterman]

The NOLA Bowl would be a great G5 National Championship game. What's better than the Superdome and New Orleans?

Sounds great! Heard it hear first!

[cajun4life]

The NOLA Bowl would be a great G5 National Championship game. What's better than the Superdome and New Orleans?

Vegas

[R1Letterman]

Vegas

Ironically the vegas bowl had very low attendance until the time that we are told too many bowls came on the scene, then the attendance skyrocketed