In the past I liked seeing post season games but it seems like the matchups are getting worse…almost unwatchable.
Question: Is it just me or are there more lackluster college football games than ever?
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I think the tv product has declined in quality more so than the game itself. The 2 minute warning slows the game down and gives us more fan-unfriendly commercial breaks.
Love the games - the commercials are what makes watching so challenging!
It really is just you, which I say without intending to sound insulting.
Look at these scores from New Year's Day 1991:
Clemson 30 Illinois 0 (Illinois was the only team to beat Colorado and Clemson lost to GT by 2 points)
Ga Tech 45 Nebraska 21
Louisville 34 Alabama 7
Michigan 35 Ole Miss 3
#3 Miami 46 #4 Texas 3
Washington 46 Iowa 34 (Washington led, 33-7, in the late 3rd quarter)
They finished out with two one-point classics in the Sugar and Orange Bowls, but an exciting day was a stinker.
Or maybe New Year's Day 1986:
Texas A/M 36 Auburn 16
UCLA 45 Iowa 28 (never that close)
Tennessee 35 #3 Miami 7
Oklahoma 25 Penn State 10
Okay, sure you had a close Michigan-Nebraska game - and the last one (for the national title) was reasonably close until the final five minutes. Still - stinkers.
You can go every 4-5 years and the blockbuster games themselves serve up a pile of garbage.
It's worse now because of the portal and everything else.
But it's not nearly as much worse as folks think, they're just selectively remembering the good games.
Look at these scores from New Year's Day 1991:
Clemson 30 Illinois 0 (Illinois was the only team to beat Colorado and Clemson lost to GT by 2 points)
Ga Tech 45 Nebraska 21
Louisville 34 Alabama 7
Michigan 35 Ole Miss 3
#3 Miami 46 #4 Texas 3
Washington 46 Iowa 34 (Washington led, 33-7, in the late 3rd quarter)
They finished out with two one-point classics in the Sugar and Orange Bowls, but an exciting day was a stinker.
Or maybe New Year's Day 1986:
Texas A/M 36 Auburn 16
UCLA 45 Iowa 28 (never that close)
Tennessee 35 #3 Miami 7
Oklahoma 25 Penn State 10
Okay, sure you had a close Michigan-Nebraska game - and the last one (for the national title) was reasonably close until the final five minutes. Still - stinkers.
You can go every 4-5 years and the blockbuster games themselves serve up a pile of garbage.
It's worse now because of the portal and everything else.
But it's not nearly as much worse as folks think, they're just selectively remembering the good games.
I like how teams today are more willing to take a chance on 4th and short to medium. It’s not just Bama under CKD!
I thought it was just me getting older and less interested but I think you nailed it. Just not very watchable these days.
All these weird bowl names, makes you appreciate, the simple old bowl games like The Bluebonnet Bowl or The Sun Bowl..
Yeah, sometimes it is companies that I never heard of until that bowl game.All these weird bowl names, makes you appreciate, the simple old bowl games like The Bluebonnet Bowl or The Sun Bowl..
I absolutely cant stand all the commercials these days. Injured player they go to commercial, come back run one play and its 2 minute warning, back to commercial. Come back kick a FG back to commercial. Come back run 2 plays and end of qtr back to commercial. Come back run 1 play and player is down on the field, back to commercial. Come back and they take a TO to avoid delay of game penalty back to commercial.
I think there are two main reasons the bowl games are bad. Too many of them for one thing. Back in the 1970's when I started watching college football there may have been around a dozen bowl games but now I think there's around 40. Because there were fewer bowls back then you had to have a very good season just to get invited. Now teams that are 6-6 and even a few that were 5-7 got invited which is really silly. Players opting out is another thing that ruined it as it shows how little players care once they cannot win a championship.
The entire bowl season, with the exception of the teams in the CFP, is almost unwatchable. There are entirely too many crappy bowls with crappy teams. If you took the top 40 teams in the final polls minus the 12 teams playing in the CFP there would be 28 teams in 14 bowl games which would be a reward for a good, but great season. I guess as long as the money is flowing in ESPN isn't going to pull the plug.
If memory serves, that game was the one when Miami set the record for the highest penalty yardage against a team. Yet still won.
That was the Miami team that wore combat fatigues on the flight to the game and groomed their "bad boy" image.
TIdewater, not to argue with your memory, but I believe that was the 1986 Miami team who wore the fatigues on the airplane ride to the Fiesta Bowl for the 1987 game against Penn St. for the national title. Penn St. upset them 14-10 to be crowned national champions. The Cotton Bowl game in 1991 was just Miami being thugs and playing with a "let's show out" attitude and who cares about the penalties!
Please do challenge my memory. I believe you are right.
I just remember hearing the radio news of that 1991 game in which Miami racked up 202 yards in penalties and still beat Texas like a rented mule.
To me, it’s the acronym bowl games. Too many of today’s bowl games have teams named UTSA or FIU and the like. I associate acronyms with inferior college football. Also, the bowl games don’t have the same meaning they had before. Bowl season was always my favorite time of year, but no more, nothing excites about crappy bowls with crappy teams.
Also, teams with a losing record are playing in bowl games. Why?
Also, teams with a losing record are playing in bowl games. Why?
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The problem is the Group of 5 bowl games. If you are 7-5 or 6-6 in the Group of 5, you are a pretty bad team. There are some Group of 5 teams that deserve to be in a bowl, but that one last night between FIU and UTSA was not an example of it.
You are correct about the penalty record. And ulmb1 is right about the combat fatigues being prior to the Fiesta Bowl vs Penn State in 1986.
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