With 35 bowl games, teams with losing record could earn invitations

[madinmaryland]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A bowl game is supposed to be a reward for a good season. Now, with the glut of postseason contests, a team with a losing record might get an invitation.

"I think it stinks," former Nebraska player Aaron Taylor said Wednesday in a text message. The CBS college football analyst said the sport "is becoming perilously close to losing the purity and amateurism that separates it from it's pro counterpart."

Finding enough winning teams to fill bowl slots is a fairly recent concern. The number of bowl games has nearly doubled from the 18 held in 1996.

The NCAA recently licensed the Dallas Football Classic and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium, pushing the number of bowls to 35. The International Bowl didn't apply for a license, so there will only be one more bowl than last season.

That still means 70 of 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams will get to go bowling, even if one or two happen to be 5-7.

"I'm not one of those guys that's like, well, that's too many bowls," said Tony Barnhart, who covers college football for CBS Sports and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But everything can have it's excess, and to me, I think that's kind of where we need to draw the line is having 5-7 teams playing in the bowl games."

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/04/28/bowlgames.losing.records.ap/index.html

Disgraceful. Though I guess it will give Notre Dame a better chance of being in a bowl game.

[MadBadger]

1. I think you should have to have 7 wins to be bowl elgible.

[Angleae]

3. 6 wins in a 12 game season.

Only one of which can be vs a team from a lower division (such as Appalachian State).

[FLPanhandle]

2. More college football games or less

I'm okay if they want to make 70 bowls. More chance to see teams and games before the season ends. Bowls stopped being a "reward for a good season" long ago. Now they are just an extention to the season. The more the merrier.

[Condem]

4. Here's the latest buzz, mad.

http://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/football/9704-big-ten-expansion-update.html Take of it what you will.

[madinmaryland]

5. That's from a sports message board, and the guy who posted it has been huffing

something.

:wtf:

[Condem]

6. LOL.

These folks know their shit.

[trotsky]

8. What?!?

No fair! How can they break up Minn/Iowa into different Big Ten divisions? They should do two divisions, east and west.

[Condem]

7. A history lesson.

Read up. There will be a quiz! http://www.rivalryesq.com/2010/2/16/1312067/the-death-of-the-big-12-conference