Sports of The Times: Bowl Games Provide Respite in a Garden of Tedium
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College bowls do have their value, as I discovered Wednesday night, when I was stuck in a place I really did not want to be â the house of horrors called Madison Square Garden.
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The current Bowl Championship Series is a plague on college sports in general -- on college football specifically -- and shows a shortage of sense and a lack of imagination.
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ATLANTA -- It came down to simple math. Three teams trying to squeeze into two slots. No computer printout, no voter bias, no pleas by coaches could solve that problem for the Bowl Championship Series.
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Now that UConn is headed to its first bowl game, it&#39;s time for a course on the inner workings of all things bowl. Not the football matters.
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Maybe it's all those tiring banquets, photo ops and interviews. Maybe it's the extra pressure that comes with being a Heisman Trophy winner. Or maybe the so-called Heisman jinx doesn't even exist.
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The bowl season has arrived and college football fans can expect two things: lots of games and lots of points. By Kevin Rivoli, AP.
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We are in the midst of whatâs usually a prime season for sporting events. So why have most of them lost their luster?
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A complicated system involving three unbeaten teams vying for the two spots in the Bowl Championship Series national title game in the Orange Bowl Jan. 4
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When it happens, somehow it will change. It will change by making the remainder of the season more meaningful, extending the dreams of a BCS bowl bid, which is what it's all about at the highest level of college football.
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Game for the ages? Sorry. Game of the season? Nope. Game of the day? Maybe, but that was only because it was a Friday night and the college football schedule was light.
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It&#39;s hard to decide whether this fixture is a quaint anachronism, a free-flowing tribute to the game&#39;s glorious, money-free past or naked commercial opportunism.
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You can hear the sounds, and feel the energy, the tension, and the anticipation. College football will decide conference championships and bowl bids tomorrow. That's the main story.
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By now weâve established that the fans are tired of college footballâs bowl system, the prevailing opinion that weâd all like to see a playoff.
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The subjectivity and shouting never ends when it comes to the Bowl Championship Series, and isnÂt that college footballÂs ultimate appeal?
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Teams with aspirations of winning a national championship can't afford to wilt in the final minutes of a close game.
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Urban Meyer has been going on and on about the Bowl Championship Series, calling it an imperfect system that should be replaced with a playoff. Then, when the Florida coach had one last chance to lobby for his team, he decided it was time to clam up.
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MIAMI -- Game for the ages? Sorry. Game of the season? Nope. Game of the day? Maybe, but that was only because it was a Friday night and the college football schedule was light.