The Lions' Pride

I don't know if they should get rid of them as much as they should relocate some of them.

Maybe some of these should be played on a college campus with a true home team.

I completely agree with the second part of this statement. A lot of the schools playing now have small fan bases, add on top of that the bad economy, and that equals empty seats.

I heard that all of the bowls are having trouble selling tickets (Besides Rose, NC, Sugar, Fiesta) The Orange Bowl is having issues as well

The bottom line is that bowls are played out. In a playoff world, America doesn't care as much about consolation games anymore.

8 wins is a good standard IMHO. If they keep it to actually good teams there will be much bigger interest. The big time bowls still have good attendance.

Uhhh $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

They make a LOT more money for people watching the games than from people attending them. The minimum wins will never go up and the # of bowls will only go up.

Most of these teams haven't earned a bowl trip. Since when do teams deserve to be rewarded for going 0.500, especially when most likely one of those wins was against an FCS team?

I will say that I forgot USC had a bowl ban the last two years, so I guess usually 2 teams are left out. Though with the way things are going, I have to believe there will always be at least one team with a bowl ban per year.

Well they made the PAC-12 championship game ... They were one win away from going to Pasedena.

Haha, I wish I was kidding.

I would prefer a 32 team playoff system, utilizing all or most current bowl games, that would have a purpose.

A 32 team playoff will never happen. That would add five games at the end of the season for the eventual champion and runner up, which would mean that you would have teams playing 18 or even 19 games (if they play Hawaii and get the additional game). The NCAA wants to keep the total number of games at no more than 15... with some prodding, you may be able to get it to 16, but certainly not 18.

I think the best system that would make everybody reasonalbly happy is to keep everything the way it is, eliminate the championship game and have the 4 BCS bowl games as the first round of an 8 team playoff. There would be 5 automatic bids (the Big East would lose their's), and 3 at large. The at large teams would be decided strictly by BCS ranking with no conference having more than 2 teams in the playoffs.

This year's playoff would be as follows:

1) LSU (SEC Champ)
2) Oklahoma St. (Big XII Champ)
3) Oregon (Pac-12 Champ)
4) Wisconsin (Big Ten Champ)
5) Clemson (ACC Champ)
6) Alabama (At Large)
7) Stanford (At Large)
8) Boise St. (At Large, Arkansas gets passed over because the SEC already has 2 teams)

Not too bad... it gives the little guy a chance to shine (Boise St.) but keeps most of the undeserving teams out of the fold (Big East slop). That would only add two additional games at the end of the season instead of 4, which the NCAA would like. The Bowls would be happy because they would be intact, and the conferences would be happy because it means more $$$$$$$$. The only one I really see being unhappy is the Big East, but you can't lose the three best schools in your conference and expect to keep that auto-bid, especially when you were close to losing it anyways.

I can't believe the bowls are still using the 6 game win req't, that was based on the old 11 game sked. The new limit should be 7 wins.. You can then eliminate about 5-10 teams, and a couple of terrible bowls. UCLA in a bowl is unbelievable....

There isn't a school out there that wants less games. Less games = less money. It would never happen in today's college football.