Toulon NOBODY should care about any bowl except the ones that determine the champion.
Thanks for telling me what I should care about.
Toulon I've said this before but would you watch a game for 10th place? That's not sports
I don't remember anyone criticizing those 2 or 3 guys that commented on binge watching some fantasy, obscure, low budget, made for TV series or movies. Variety is what makes the world go around. That's not reality.
There are some reasons I enjoy watching college football bowl games: these kids are playing because they love the game. When the vast majority are out of eligibility, they are done. Another reason is the wagering angle. I just really enjoy watching amateur sports.
Toulon It's not hard...but too much money to be made off bowls like PInstripe...Beef O'Bradys...are you kidding me?
Who makes the money, in your opinion? And if the NCAA adopted the football playoff model for D-II and small colleges, wouldn't someone still be making money off the bowls?
SVonhof It is all about making money and it would be interesting to see how much money the colleges pay-out vs receive for participating
This information is available but you need to dig for it as the expenses get buried. I know for a fact that the Regents (the governing body of universities in at least 2 states) attend the bowls, stay in the team hotel, fly on the charter, etc etc. Another thing I learned in doing my own research into this over the years; the Pay-Out amount listed for each bowl doesn't generally go to the schools directly. It is paid to their conference, goes into a pool and then shared among all conference schools (I can confirm this is still done at two P5 conferences). Each conference has a different formula for splitting the revenue such as an extra share to the school that participated to help offset their travel costs.
Here is another dirty little secret; some of the lower tier bowls require "X" amount of tickets to be guaranteed purchased by the participating schools' fans/alumni as a condition of accepting the bowl invitation. For example, when my daughter was at the University of Kansas, they qualified for one of these lower-tier bowls in Ft. Worth, TX and were responsible for selling 10k (?) tickets. Ft Worth isn't considered a garden spot in December so they had a LOT left over after the initial offering. They ended up putting together a package for their student body to attend for $50 that included the game ticket and a chartered bus ride down and back. That wasn't popular either so the Boys/Girls Clubs and YMCA/YWCA of DFW sent a lot of kids to the game courtesy of KU.