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Bowl games lack importance, quality
By Brendan Monahan
Sifting through TV channels over
Christmas break, the uDrove
Humanitarian
Bowl might pop up.
Taking place at Bronco
Stadium in Boise, Idaho, ft t
a team hum the MAC V ,
will face one from the %
WAC on Dec. 18, the first
day of bowl games.
Chances are you’ll
come across a lot of
these types of games
and then, you’ll turn to
the next station
No one blames you. Most bowl games
lack quality matchups, and other more
interesting sporting events will be broad
cast over the airwaves.
Outside of the BCS contests and several
others including the Capital One Bowl
postseason FBS games fade out of
memory.
This season, Penn State’s bowl could
present the same dilemma.
Whichever game the Nittany Lions go
to, a win could help reverse the trend of
losing to ranked teams, and the young
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players could gain confidence heading into
the spring.
The extra practices leading into postsea
son matchups can also help a team
improve.
Bowls are in no way pointless for play
ers.
But from a fan’s standpoint outside of
ranked matchups and BCS games the
postseason contests provide no real value.
And from the perspective of pure sporting
purpose, the only real game that matters
is the Tostitos BCS National
Championship Game, which crowns a
champion.
There are 35 bowls, meaning 70 of 120
Football Bowl Subdivision teams will play
in bowl games —that's approximately 58
percent of the league playing in the post
season.
MY OPINION
Could you imagine that percentage of
NFL teams playing after the regular sea
son?
That means about 18 teams six more
than the league's current format would
make the playoffs.
Could you fathom the MLB with the
same percentage?
Currently eight clubs, four from each
league, get into the postseason. If the MLB
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an outsider, the bowl game is fun to watch,
yes. But it’s more of a way to pass the time
during the holiday season.
The Insight, C tor and Outback Bowls
are filler games enticements before the
real shows, such as the Granddaddy of
Them All otherwise known as the Rose
Bowl or the Sugar Bowl.
So while flipping around the TV on New
Year’s Day, you’ll probably come across
Penn State. This time, unlike for the
uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, you’ll proba
bly keep it on.
The game beats one at Bronco Stadium
in Boise, Idaho.
It beats a matchup between MAC and
WAC schools, but like the percentage of
postseason FBS contenders, the bowl just
won't add up.
Brendan Monahan is a senior majoring in English
and is a Collegian football writer. His e-mail
address is bjmsl46@psu.edu
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