Bowl games have been associated with college football for about as long as the sport has been around.
There was a time, before the BCS and the College Football Playoff, when New Year’s Day bowl games actually decided national championships, but those days are long gone.
With the advent of the playoff, most bowl games are now an afterthought. With each passing season, the biggest storylines surrounding bowls not associated with the playoff centered around which players were opting out and which players had decided to actually play.
Less than one hour after it was announced that Clemson would be facing Penn State in the Pinstripe Bowl on December 27, those were the kind of discussions being had on social media.