College Bowls Don't Matter

The amount of bowl games for college football is ridiculous. This year alone there will have been over 40 bowl games played. Six of those bowl games are prestigious enough to win and truly savor the victory, but due to the college football playoffs there are only two bowl games that have any real significance. Based on the rotating of the six prestigious bowl games (Capitol One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach bowl, PlayStation Fiesta Bowl, Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Rose Bowl, and Allstate Sugar Bowl) two of these bowl games are host to the semi-final games for the CFP depending on the year. The NCAA has halted for any new bowl games starting up for the time being, till 2019 to be exact. The college football playoffs started in 2014, it was designed and intended to demonstrate to the entire nation which college football program is the best one in the country. And of course along with excitement for the fans and extra cash flow from sponsors to the executives. It is still too early to accurately predict what will be the result of the college playoff system, but a safe bet is that it will diminish the importance of bowl games. To be fair, the bowl games were already losing value do to the increase of more bowl games appearing left and right causing inflation of quality and importance. It's simple. 

Bowl games already feel pointless. This year the Rose Bowl was a consolation prize between Penn State and USC. It was quite the spectacle. Last second field goal to win the game. However, with the college playoffs in the picture all USC really won was a bowl game with history. While the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl victory earned the winning participant a spot in the college football playoff national championship. Making the Rose Bowl almost as meaningless as the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl this year. Now the Rose Bowl will have some more meaning reinstated when it will host the semi-final for the college playoffs. As one may catch on, these bowls have quite the Mickey Mouse names. Even the prestigious college bowls are not safe from being re-branded, I mean renamed. A person can search up the list of all the bowl games that are held and will catch on to the pattern in the naming of these football bowls. College football bowls do not matter any more. The College Football Playoffs has already pushed it to the back seat on this cash generating vehicle. However, these college bowls will not vanish any time soon. As long as these bowls continue to be named after corporations, the NCAA will gladly accept the money on behalf of the players. Due to their amateur status NCAA athletes are not allowed to receive any form of payment. I would like to clarify, the bowl games do not matter to most fans, the importance rest on the money being generated for a non-profit organization.