from the Fredercik News-Post:

There are 34 college football bowl games scheduled this year, about twice as many as there should be. They began the morning of Dec. 20 when Navy lost to Wake Forest in the EagleBank Bowl at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. and won't end until Jan. 8 with the BCS National Championship in Miami. I'm not counting the three all-star bowl games which will be played in January.

It could be worse. The NCAA sanctioned two new bowls this year -- the EagleBank and the St. Petersburg Bowl. But it had enough sense to turn down the Rocky Mountain Bowl, which would have been played in Salt Lake City.

I remember when bowls were a big deal. You actually had to have a winning record to get into one. Most were held on or around New Year's Day and they were something to look forward to watching.

Having so many bowl games today cheapens the whole thing. They would be better off getting rid of many of these bowl games and trying to schedule a National Championship Tournament featuring only the best teams in the country.

What really gets to me is that there are nine teams that finished with 6-6 records playing in bowl games. That's because all you need is six wins to get into one of these things. I can understand that being the case when teams played 10 or 11 games, but not with today's 12-game schedule. A team should at least have to have more wins than losses to get to a bowl game.

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