For a handful of schools, football in 2017 is over.
Sure, for 82 of the 128 FBS teams there are still bowl games to be played. There are the big bowl games, the playoff bowl games: the Rose Bowl and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The lesser—but still really big—bowl games, the bowl games that can be program changers: the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl and the Capital One Orange Bowl, among others. Then there are a number of "lesser" bowl games, games that might be exciting or might feel like consolation prizes or might even be a little bit disappointing to be playing in.