How many bowl college games are there

Ohio won 41 — 6. The one positive here is that these colleges are probably pretty proud about winning these games. Nothing shows the success of a season than raising a banner say that says Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl Championships up to rafters, right? Those are the bowl games worth watching if you ask me. Does playing in these bowl games help with recruiting? Does it feel good to end the season on a high note with a big win? School Streak Finder , Rivalry Finder. Harbaugh , W. Hayes , B.

Kelly , T. Osborne , P. Heisman , Bednarik , Maxwell , Outland , Groza Forfeits and Vacated Games , Random Page , We're Social Louisiana State 7. Texas 4. Alabama 5. Oklahoma 8. Spencer Hall, welcome. Thank you so much for joining us. MARTIN: First, some people may not be aware, but players electing to not play in these post-season games is relatively new.

So could you just talk a little bit about why bowl games have been considered important? And what's the shift been in recent years? HALL: The importance of bowl games used to be municipal. Bowl games were a great source of income and, I will say, buzz for places like Miami, which started the Orange Bowl, which was named because that's what everybody thought, you know, was the only thing that grew in Florida. So they were a nice way for communities and cities to really promote themselves and to get into boosterism while also staging a football game that everybody would show up for.

And for teams, they were a great reward, you know? And there were only - in the late '60s, early '70s, we're talking like eight bowl games, maybe 10 bowl games for all of the teams in college football. So really, not a whole lot of people got to participate in them. Flash-forward to the present, where we now have over 40 bowl games, depending on cancellations or what's going to happen.

And they still are a big reward for players, but there are more of them. They are simply not as valuable as they might have been if there were 10 of them now. MARTIN: So last week, Kirk Herbstreit, a co-host on ESPN's "College GameDay" - he's a former college player, and he's a big voice in the sport, I think it's fair to say - you know, criticized players who sit out bowl games, saying that they don't love the game as much as players in past generations.

I know this isn't the first time we've seen a commentator or former player or a coach kind of - I don't know how else to put this - try to shame players into playing games. I'm just interested in your take on this. HALL: Yeah. I heartily disagree, strenuously. How many adverbs you want to put on that? I disagree because this is now very much a business. And it's a business where I think a lot of people will dismiss players doing this by saying, well, maybe - this player isn't good enough to opt out.

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Both at the stadium and at home. It made NPR. It was perhaps the most-talked-about moment from this bowl season, and it had nothing to do with who won the national championship. Every year, a handful of pundits or fans question why there are so many bowl games — up to 43 originally planned this season.