Bowl season is in full swing, with college football exhibitions replacing holiday classics on TVs across America. What we have now is much different than what it looked like 25 years ago.
Before it was a full-blown system, there were a handful of college football games that hosted the best teams in the sport in exotic locations. It ballooned to a little more than a dozen in the 70s and 80s. During the 90s and into the 00s, the bowl system doubled in size.
The CFP expansion threw a new wrinkle into the bowl system, absorbing the most prestigious games from the New Year’s Six.