Believe it or not, the college football bowl season is much more than waiting for Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney to butt heads again. The Alabama-Clemson fight for No. 1 is becoming a tired theme, not to fault the coaches of the two elite teams.
Problems in the sport run deep. The control exhibited by the Power Five conferences essentially has turned the exclusionary four-team playoff into the Saban-Swinney Invitational, and teams such as Boise State, Brigham Young, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Coastal Carolina need not apply. The small-conference teams do not even qualify as long shots to win a title because they have absolutely no shot, so forget betting any of those teams on the futures board.
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Dec 22, 2020
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… AND NOW, THE FITTINGLY WEIRD FINAL CHAPTER
Decades from now, the children will not believe their ears when we try to explain what the 2020 college football bowl season was like.
“The Rose Bowl was played in Texas, kids. So was the New Mexico Bowl. California had no bowls at all. … A bunch of bowls were canceled, including the hardy old Sun Bowl. Times were tough. Every team’s charter jet flew uphill both ways. … There was no Lawry’s Beef Bowl, no bowling matches between teams, no visits to amusement parks, and almost no opportunities for players to be suspended for breaking curfew after going out on the town until 3 a.m. …”
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