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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
MSU must have shitty fans,* then, because any SEC, ACC, or Big XII team would have the fans lined up in RVs ready to go. The Pac-10 perhaps not, but they have the rockies to cross. If the first games aren't on campus, you do regions, and it's even easier to do than with basketball, since you know there's one in the west (LA, SF, Seat, Phoenix), one in the midwest (Minn. Stl., or Indy), one in the southwest (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) and one in the south (New Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville)
* Oops, I should point out that this is another problem with the "100 years of tradition bowl system"--there are too many bowls featuring crappy teams. Every team with a winning record gets to play, so it's nothing special. The payouts are tiny on these games. It usually costs the university money to play. They do it for the extra practice time that it allows, not because they get anything in return.
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I was surprised to find out last week that they changed the system t have this BCS Championship game. Shows how much attention I pay to college football.
As to shitty teams going to worthless bowl games, Mr. Man is aggravated that Wisconsin even made a bowl this year considering how horribly they played (all of this is heresay to me, as I didn't intentionally watch a single game this year), but he points out that Wisconsin will basically always be invited to some bowl game because they are known as a school whose fans travel. And yes, that is mainly because the fans want an excuse to get the hell out of Wisconsin in December/January.
I'd be happy if they did away with the bowls (one of my least favorite things about New Year's Day, other than the inevitable hangover) and, heck, I might even watch a college playoffs series. Intentionally.
