People that don’t like college football often complain about the bowls, and more specifically the number of them. It was a really enjoyable college football bowl season this year thanks to so many games being a quality watch — but that still doesn’t matter. The reason there are so many games is that it’s a fantastic television product that pulls in more viewers than almost every other sport out there except the NFL.
Notre Dame’s Gator Bowl against the South Carolina Gamecocks was a huge succes, and was the 6th highest watched game of bowl season — despite the vast number of opt outs (for one reason or another).