Doug Robinson: BCS has given us a bowl system full of flaws

The current bowl system that Hancock praises for working so well has produced a glut of boring games with silly names. Imagine that you're a football player who has dreamed of playing in a bowl game and lifted weights and run miles of wind sprints for years hoping one day to realize that dream. Then comes the big payoff: For the rest of his life, he can tell his children and grandchildren that he played in ...

The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.

Or: The Meineke Car Care Bowl.

Or: The Chick-fil-A Bowl. The TicketCity Bowl. The GoDaddy.com Bowl. The BBVA Compass Bowl (whatever that stands for). The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.

There are now 35 bowl games. That means 70 of college football's 120 Division 1A football teams will play in a bowl game — or 58 percent. It's difficult NOT to go to a bowl game. You've got to be really b-a-d to stay home in December.

This year's bowl lineup includes 13 teams with 6-6 records — BYU, UTEP, Louisville, Florida International, Georgia Tech, East Carolina, Illinois, Tennessee, Washington, Clemson, Georgia, Middle Tennessee and Kentucky.

Or you could look at it this way: 32 of the 70 bowl teams won just six or seven games this season. Eleven of the 35 bowls will pit two of those teams against each other in the same game, the worst of the worst being 6-6 BYU vs. 6-6 UTEP in the New Mexico Bowl.

Do you really think this is working, Bill Hancock?

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