During the weeks without Mountain West football, the extra time lent itself to attempting new and creative ideas for posts. Today’s column is one of those ideas. Let’s breakdown bowl season and build it back up.
The Issue:
It’s pretty simple; there are a lot of bowl games. A lot. Forty of them, to be exact. Of course, they are meaningful to the teams playing, but to the casual fan, no one is interested in a 6-6 team playing a 7-5 team at 1 pm on a Thursday. Or worse, an 11-3 team playing a 6-6 team on a Saturday during primetime.