By Jordan Long
The NCAA football bowl season is here and 8 games have already been played. Tonight is the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, which features BYU vs. Wyoming. Two high profile players will not be appearing in their bowl games. They are Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and LSU’s cwho are going to get ready for the upcoming NFL Draft in April.
This is not a surprise. Stanford is appearing in the Sun Bowl and LSU is in the Citrus Bowl. A bowl game is a decent reward for the hard work these student athletes put into the season, but there are too many bowl games. The bowl games Stanford and LSU are playing in aren’t the biggest bowl games of the year. They don’t mean a whole lot, so why risk injury, which could cost them in the NFL draft. This is a smart move by both Leonard Fournette and Christian McCaffrey but it ends their college careers. The bowl game would have been the last time we saw them competing at the college level.
The only bowl games that really mean something are in the College Football Playoff. One is the Fiesta Bowl, featuring Ohio State and Clemson and the other is the Peach Bowl with Washington against Alabama. The winners will play in the National Championship at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida on January 9th.
The NCAA must expand the playoffs . There are way too many bowl games. A 6-6 record is all a team needs to get in to one. If they keep it the way it is, college players who are headed to the NFL draft will continue to skip meaningless bowl games. It is not fair to fans who may travel many miles to see a full squad. The NCAA must address this problem by reducing the number of bowl games or allowing the playoffs to have more teams compete.
How would you fix the bowl system so that players wouldn’t skip the games?
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