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How to Fix Bowl Season: Games Must Have March Madness Feel

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Here’s a fact: most bowl games aren’t interesting. They’re space-fillers on the clock, and it doesn’t really matter if you watch them or not.

This year, bowl TV ratings and attendance sagged, and so we at ROT have been thinking: how to we make bowl games more interesting?

Now for another fact: March Madness is interesting. Every matchup has drama baked in.

So in order to fix lagging bowl interest, why not make bowl games look more like March Madness? Right now, there’s too little intrigue going into the games. Many of the games are flat-out boring and the bowls are usually stuck with the same teams in the same location.