And so it begins...

[SMU_Alumni11]

This cant be good news no matter how they spin it. It looks like the gap between P5 and non-P5 is getting wider and wider. I know we all knew it but I figure this will help cememnt the reality of it. From the article, it looks like only P5s will play P5s, except for a few bowl games that I imagine will be discontinued in a couple of years. What do y'all think? Is my imagination getting the better of me?

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9785566/bowl-games-being-created-miami-bahamas-boca-raton

[LA_Mustang]

39 bowl games is ridiculous. Stop it!

But please keep the blue jerseys!

[GRGB]

This cant be good news no matter how they spin it. It looks like the gap between P5 and non-P5 is getting wider and wider. I know we all knew it but I figure this will help cememnt the reality of it. From the article, it looks like only P5s will play P5s, except for a few bowl games that I imagine will be discontinued in a couple of years. What do y'all think? Is my imagination getting the better of me?

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9785566/bowl-games-being-created-miami-bahamas-boca-raton

attendance would be greatly increased, and fan appreciation / travel increased if 6-6 BCS teams stayed home in favor of better (10-2) non-BCS teams taking their spot in the better bowls. As it is, they do everything they can to secure that big school for the bowl (allowing 6-6 teams with a win over a 1aa, and ASU petitioned to allow them as a 6-6 team what last year with 2 of their wins over 1aa's).

This means these teams' fans have to decide whether or not to travel to that minor bowl (and they don't much)...they'd be more excited to travel to a bowl one year later with a better team. Absence make the heart grow fonder, but when you are in a bowl each and every year, even when you dip to 6-6, that's not helping attendance.

I recall 11-1 (or 10-2?) ranked NIU didn't get a bowl because the only one available was for the MAC champ, and they happened to lose one conf. game that year.

Easy solution: no 6-6 teams allowed. 7-5 min. then the small conferences won't be fabricating a bowl, because they will be allowed into more of the bigger (minor) bowls. (their good teams will).

[Bergermeister]

any school that wins 1 game should be allowed to go to a bowl.

[blackoutpony]

Nope, the writing is definitely on the wall. I pray that's there still a chance, but we'll have to see. This has been my fear ever since Louisville and Rutgers bolted.

[ClassOf81]

But please keep the blue jerseys!

[78pony]

I have tried to hint hint hint at this but folks, it is done. Over. Decided. That's why I have warned for a long time now that the fuse had been lot and we had no time to play with.

[No Quarter]

I have tried to hint hint hint at this but folks, it is done. Over. Decided. That's why I have warned for a long time now that the fuse had been lot and we had no time to play with.

lIT, LOT, LOTE?

But I am afraid the opinion rendered is correct.

[SMUer]

39 bowl games is ridiculous

Mediocre coaches everywhere rejoice!

[mrydel]

I don't care if they go to 60 bowls. Really has become no different than adding a 13th game only it gives fans an opportunity to go somewhere different, players get some swag, and it adds a little hoopla.

Main thing is not to be satisfied or brag about getting to the mediocre bowls. The goal is to get to the biggest bowl possible. Playing in the last game of the year is the target.

[Stallion]

Did the P5 not get SMU's Application for an Exemption and Bribe for rich, private schools with less than 15,000 fans in a city with 10 pro fanchises and a fanbase that has a lot more important things to do?

[PlanoStang]

How many P5 schools will there be? Rest of the NCAA schools at all levels should band together
to just kick them out, and not play them in any sports period.

[blackoutpony]

How many P5 schools will there be? Rest of the NCAA schools at all levels should band together
to just kick them out, and not play them in any sports period.

PlanoStang is making a strong push this morning for more first place votes in the delusional poll... In fact, we might need to form a bat sh@t crazy poll just for him

[sbsmith]

How many P5 schools will there be? Rest of the NCAA schools at all levels should band together
to just kick them out, and not play them in any sports period.

Way too many desperate and broke G5/1-AA schools out there for that to happen.