The Past, Present and Future of the College Football Bowl Season

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The field for the College Football Playoff is set and with a new expanded 12-team format, this looks to be the most exciting path to the title that we have ever seen. And as we are quickly reminded, no matter how big the playoff bracket gets, someone is always going to be left out, and that someone is always going to have something to say about it. But what about those other 36 bowls? The ones that have nothing to do with winning a national title? Are they nothing more than a big show of pomp, circumstance and giant Pop Tarts? David Hale joins David Dennis Jr. to tell us what we can expect to see this bowl season, and beyond, as college football, in its second century of tradition, is evolving faster than it ever has. You can honor Jim Valvano and support ESPN’s V Week with a donation to the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Dennis Jr., hosting the ESPN Daily podcast today, and I want to share with you that across all of ESPN, it's V week.
0:12.8	This is something we do every year to honor our teammate Jim Valvano by supporting the V Foundation for Cancer Research,
0:19.4	the foundation that he announced in his unforgettable SP speech so many years ago.
0:24.6	Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
0:27.2	While lots of things have changed in the 30 years since that S.B. speech,
0:30.6	the need for cancer research hasn't.
0:33.0	When you give to the V Foundation,
0:35.0	100% of your donation goes directly to research, making the dream of
0:39.6	victory over cancer more possible every single day. If you're able, we hope that you'll donate.
0:46.5	Go to v.org slash donate now and help support the critical work of the V Foundation for Cancer
0:52.5	Research. Thank you.
0:56.0	All right, David, this may be true for college football fans, but I want to ask you personally,
1:01.7	is this really the most wonderful time of the year?
1:05.3	My wife did the Birmingham Marathon one time, and I did the half.
1:10.6	Okay. And the full marathon was just doing the half marathon twice.
1:14.9	And so I got to the end of the half marathon and thought, oh, these poor slubs doing this all over again.
1:21.3	That's kind of how I feel about getting to the end of the regular season and then starting the postseason of football.
1:27.5	I'm just signing up for another half marathon here.
1:30.3	Shout out to your wife being the true soldier finishing the whole marathon
1:33.9	while you watched it and enjoyed your cell.
1:37.5	But in the end, though, what would you say if you gave the State of the Union
1:41.2	on the College Bowl season, what would that be?
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