NCAA: Rants and Predictions Surrounding the Bowl Games

By Rick Reighard Sports Central Columnist

I have some ideas and predictions for college bowl games. These ideas might just save college football. Read on and find out why.

College football needs more bowl games. Yes, you heard correctly, thirty bowl games just doesn't do it for me. We need The Roto-Rooter Toilet Bowl. Think about this idea, we have the AP vote to decide who the worst two Division 1 teams in the country are. And then, we have them play to decide who the worst Division I team in the country is. Stick with me here, this will get a little confusing. The loser of that game will play the winner of the Division II title game. If the DII team wins, then the next football year, they will become a division one team, and the division one team will become a DII team. Wow! That was a mouthful.

There should be a bowl game in Hawaii. Then, maybe players will forget that the game they will be playing in will mean nothing and that their performances will be forgotten within a week, when the next game is played. Players won't care because they will get a vacation in Hawaii. Oh no! I forgot, there already is a bowl like this. The Pro Bowl.

While I am on the topic of the worst game in sports, the NFL needs to do something about the popularity of this game. First, move the game away from Hawaii, that way the game will be on during the night, when people are home. The game should also be played in the middle of the football season, when fans are interested in football. But here is my revolutionary idea for the NFL Pro Bowl: have the NFL all-stars play the XFL all-stars. That would be entertaining, and I wouldn't be surprised if the XFL squad made a game of it.

Here is my last idea to make the bowls better: how about by televising them, ESPN? I was all ready to watch the first game of the bowl season. I wanted to see this game because it was Ladanian Tomlinson's last game, and I did not get a chance to see him play this year. I started making some popcorn, grabbed a pop, and laid back in my recliner when ESPN announced the game would be on ESPN 2. In the bowl game's place, would be an exciting (and I say exciting sarcastically) hockey game. Hockey? I don't get ESPN 2, so I am stuck with hockey? This is America, not Canada. Why is hockey on instead of football? They really missed the boat on that one.

Now, here are my bowl predictions for the 2000 season (I did not take into effect point spreads, however, I would definitely take Oklahoma and the eleven points.)

Oklahoma over FSU Miami over Florida Notre Dame over Oregon State Purdue over Washington Michigan over Auburn Virginia Tech over Clemson Kansas State over Tennessee Ohio State over South Carolina Mississippi State over Texas A&M Air Force over Fresno State Northwestern over Nebraska Oregon over Texas

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