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The Valenti Show

Are bowl games becoming meaningless?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How many bowls do you even pay attention to anymore?

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0:00.0

Before we get to the people, we got a lot of lions callers, you know, that bowl fun segment,

0:08.0

ridiculous, we'll get some ticket text, but like, it's kind of a perfect bridge to show you how broken the sport is.

0:15.0

I mean, first of all, the idea that there's 42 bowl games,

0:20.0

making 84 teams in this country eligible is absurd. The average college football fan can't

0:28.0

name 50 college football teams, much less 84. Second of all, we've arrived at a place where I said this earlier, I made the joke.

0:38.0

Big-time Bowl games like the Orange Bowl are rendered useless.

0:42.0

Orange Bowl.

0:43.0

Georgia versus Florida State.

0:46.0

That game combined, Propet Casino,

0:50.0

over under opt-outs in that game 12 and a half.

0:53.4

I did that for you.

0:56.8

I was about to say probably about 12, Mike.

0:59.7

Okay. You know, so... And it... You've been working with me too.

1:04.0

But it but it brings up a topic you're going to get into later today which is you know now

1:10.0

Charlie Baker the president of the NCAA, has come out with what you always said the

1:16.5

NCA would do, is that once it spiraled out of control, the NCA would come back and Yep, here's a lifeboat.

1:24.0

Here's how we'll do this.

1:25.0

They're basically advocating for a new subdivision of college football

1:30.0

where teams can opt in.

1:32.0

The highest resourced teams is the terminology that was used,

1:36.4

can opt in, and by putting money in a trust for the players at a minimum of 30 grand a year for every

1:44.9

player that they will create a new level of college football. Now how many

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