Are CFB's Bowls Screwed, or Are We Just Old?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast · Dec 23, 2025 · 1h 18m

These are difficult times for the college football bowl games that aren’t part of the Playoff system. Player opt-outs were already a thing, and now entire teams don’t want to take part. At best, the games are internet memes featuring some enjoyable football on the side. At worst, nobody cares. How many of these problems are truly new, and how many of them feel worse than they are because we have a distorted picture of being young in the 1990s and 2000s?

Alex and Rodger challenge their priors on how much bowl season has changed and how much of bowls’ decline comes down to nostalgia.

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