ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit doesn't think players love football as much as they did decades ago.
Herbstreit criticized players who opt out of bowl games during ESPN's "College GameDay" show on Saturday morning. The network's top analyst openly wondered why non-playoff bowl games were "meaningless" to players who opted to skip the games to prepare for their NFL careers and said he didn't think that expanding the College Football Playoff to include more teams and more games would prevent players on top teams from opting out of games in the future.
"Isn't that what we do as football players, we compete?