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Topic: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)

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Mdot21

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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #392 on: January 03, 2026, 09:37:57 AM »
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #393 on: January 03, 2026, 09:48:52 AM »
wasn't his fault, defense let him down
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #394 on: January 03, 2026, 12:00:37 PM »
Holiday Bowl last night. Arizona trails SMU last night 24-0 at halftime. Fights back to make it 24-19. Too little, too late. But a fun past two days nonetheless. Wildcats fans packed the house.




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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #395 on: January 03, 2026, 03:08:20 PM »
FCS might be crowning a 4-loss national champion.  That's fun. 

Win 75% of your games.  You're the best.

Participation trophy.  
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #396 on: January 03, 2026, 05:20:01 PM »
They didn't make the rules they're just playing the game they love unlike the critics
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #397 on: January 03, 2026, 05:38:04 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on January 03, 2026, 03:08:20 PM
FCS might be crowning a 4-loss national champion.  That's fun.

Win 75% of your games.  You're the best.

Participation trophy. 
put JMU and Tulane in the playoff and that 4-loss suckbutt wouldn't stand a chance
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #398 on: January 03, 2026, 06:37:17 PM »

Quote from: GopherRock on January 01, 2026, 05:48:25 PM
They're was a minute on the opening series where I was worried that Bama was going to embarrass the Hoosiers. Boy was I wrong.
Funny Bama started struggling when everyone was allowed to pay players
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #399 on: January 03, 2026, 06:40:35 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on January 01, 2026, 11:48:29 PM
So there's one coach who has seemingly and improbably won pretty much everywhere that winning is impossible. And then somehow he becomes the only coach to date who has avoided the "CFP bye curse".

I'm not a religious man, but...



You might need to think about this, @OrangeAfroMan ...

https://youtu.be/XacvydVrhuI
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #400 on: January 04, 2026, 11:16:21 PM »
Congratulations to UW River Falls.  Win the DIII Stagg Bowl.    Despite about half my life in WI, I've never been to River Falls.   Short distance from border w Minnesota and just south of I-94.

Was scanning the roster, on brand.   Lots of Minnesota kids, bunch of  rural WI kids and about zero from SE Wisconsin given six closer DIII options. 
Notably, a handful of AZ kids on the roster.  The kid from Florida was an impact player too.
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« Reply #401 on: January 04, 2026, 11:50:15 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on January 04, 2026, 11:16:21 PM
Congratulations to UW River Falls.  Win the DIII Stagg Bowl.    Despite about half my life in WI, I've never been to River Falls.  Short distance from border w Minnesota and just south of I-94.

Was scanning the roster, on brand.  Lots of Minnesota kids, bunch of  rural WI kids and about zero from SE Wisconsin given six closer DIII options.
Notably, a handful of AZ kids on the roster.  The kid from Florida was an impact player too.
They always are.  Ask...every program in the nation.
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #402 on: January 05, 2026, 11:35:00 PM »
Hell of a fun FCS title game
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #403 on: January 07, 2026, 11:08:10 AM »
Bowl Ratings continue to remain sky-high; to sample a few:

Pop Tarts Bowl – BYU/GT: 8.7M
        Best since 1991; Top non-CFP/NY6 Bowl since 2019-20 Citrus Bowl
Pinstripe Bowl – Penn St/Clemson: 7.6M
        Best on record
Gator Bowl – Virginia/Missouri: 6.0M
        Best since 2009
Rate Bowl – New Mexico/Minnesota: 4.4M
        Best since 2011
LA Bowl Game – Boise St/Washington: 3.8M
        Best on record
Hawaii Bowl – Hawaii/California: 2.7M
        Best since 2013

This guy works himself blue by stating the obvious: “So, this is why the NCAA is keeping the increasingly meaningless bowl season alive. It has nothing to do with college football fans. It has nothing to do with giving additional opportunities to players. Has nothing to do with the teams who are competing in these meaningless games that I think are a complete waste of time. The only reason, and I mean the only reason (!), that bowl season still exists in college football is to fill the bank account of the worldwide leader in woke…ESPN!”


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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #404 on: January 07, 2026, 11:13:31 AM »
I'll just say it one more time-- bowl games were always meaningless exhibitions that existed solely for someone to make money.

In the early days it was the local chamber of commerce business types that benefitted.  Now, in some cases they still do, but once the TV money became so big, it's the television broadcast partner that's reaping the primary benefit.

And the conferences and member schools, of course.  They could end it all by just saying no.  But that's not ever going to happen.
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Re: Its the Most Capital One Time of the Year (Bowl Game SOC)
« Reply #405 on: January 07, 2026, 11:17:24 AM »
Quote from: CatsbyAZ on January 07, 2026, 11:08:10 AM
This guy works himself blue by stating the obvious: “So, this is why the NCAA is keeping the increasingly meaningless bowl season alive. It has nothing to do with college football fans. It has nothing to do with giving additional opportunities to players. Has nothing to do with the teams who are competing in these meaningless games that I think are a complete waste of time. The only reason, and I mean the only reason (!), that bowl season still exists in college football is to fill the bank account of the worldwide leader in woke…ESPN!”
I mean, it's obvious, but I also think that he's assigning the blame in the wrong case. 

It's not "the NCAA" keeping the meaningless bowl season alive. They don't really benefit much from it, unlike the basketball tournament, which they put on and make a ton of their organizational money from. The NCAAT basically funds the NCAA. 

The NCAA doesn't IMHO make a bunch of money from the CFP either. 

Yeah, the NCAA could make rules that kill bowls. They could make rules which advantage the CFP. But what's their incentive to change any of it? 

The bowl season is kept alive by (and largely for) ESPN, not the NCAA. The only thing you can say the NCAA hasn't done is affirmatively killed it. But I'd say that's a much different thing than saying the NCAA is keeping it alive. Because it's not the NCAA that's putting on these bowl games, and it's not the NCAA that's benefiting financially from their existence. 
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