> There are some real dud bowls. Too many bowl games, too many mediocre teams.
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>I don't always like all the bowl games, but remember that the NCAA basketball tourney allows 64 schools to the dance. (Well, 65, if you count the play-in game, and soon it will be 68). Though in that case, it's a tournament and not the football bowl structure.
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>But in the end, NCAA football is a business that has to make $$$ to continue. Rarely will I watch any bowls other than BCS bowls. so I really don't care how many non-BCS bowls they have.

Yes, understood. It is about money.

The local angle here is that Notre Dame and Northwestern, the closest BCS teams to Chicago, are both going to bowls despite having 7-5 records. Both their opponents went 7-5 as well. Those games are on my must-miss list <g>.