It's the time of year for the three most nauseating words in our nation’s college sports landscape: “The Bowl Season.”
It is the time of year where rivalries between strangers are forced upon us, and matchups between teams are created using every piece of logic except that which is in the game’s (and the fans') best interests.
This year we will be smothered with 35 games, involving 70 schools, stretched out well over the next month.
To put that into perspective, there are 120 total schools in the NCAA’s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (there's a mouthful), meaning that almost 60 percent of all D-I schools are apparently worthy of postseason exposure.
If you watch only one bowl game this year, the odds are strong that it will feature a team with at least five losses, as 29 programs come in with such a pristine record. Add in the teams with only four losses (12), and well over half of the programs in this year’s bowl season feature records that are the de...
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