Bowl season, the most exciting time in college football. It’s all about those who have worked and sacrificed to be the best meet on the field of combat to determine who attained championship status. It’s the epitome of sport that the true believer awaits, confident that the purity is ensured by the preceptors of our academic institutions.
Kicking off the extravaganza a few days ago, Temple and Wyoming squared off in a battle of titans, as did powerhouses Ohio and Utah State. Wait a minute, these teams are supposed to be the cream of the crop, right?
Well, at least we can look forward to the Music City, Meineke Car Care and Gator Bowls. Six teams at 6 and 6. That is, not a winning season among them.
In a rare display of candor in the world of academia, you have the Fight Hunger Bowl, pitting a team with a five hundred record (Illinois) against UCLA, boasting credentials of 5-7. That’s not a typo. The featured players are a breakeven team going up against a loser. A loser ascended to Mount Olympus, albeit one from a large media market. At least that unmasks the true purpose behind all of this.
The only thing more sincere would be to hold the Who Cares? Bowl, as in, “Who cares who plays, as long as we can find sponsors with cash?” I propose that the combatants be the teams with the worst records and largest media markets.
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