College football fans pain through every season with this ridiculous BCS process. We deal with watching lousy and meaningless bowl games for a couple of weeks during the holiday season. Unless your team is playing in the bowl game it most likely won’t catch your interest (Oregon State and Pittsburgh should issue an apology to anyone who watched more than five minutes of the Sun Bowl this year).
At least you’ve convinced your wife every year you must watch all of these games in order to avoid tedious errands or work around the house when you have a couple of days away from work. Enjoy the chips and dip and try to catch a nap on the couch while you watch these very mediocre games. If you’re not watching Florida-Oklahoma, USC-Penn State, or TCU-Boise State this season you’re really watching a game that means very little. A playoff system would fix this problem but that debate is for another day.
Occasionally the bowl games create a great reason to keep watching them. The Rice Owls and Vanderbilt Commodores ended their bowl victory droughts this holiday season. Vanderbilt hadn’t won a bowl game since 1955 and Rice was last victorious in 1954. Can you imagine the jubilation of the fans for each of these schools on December 31st? Can you imagine your favorite team not winning a bowl game for over 50 years?
Any sport fan can feel for these programs and their fans as they celebrated their bowl victory. These programs alumni and fans finally had something to celebrate going into the next year. Fortunately most of us can’t understand the long wait they had to endure. Congratulations Vanderbilt and Rice. You’ve made a huge statement for the importance of bowl games every year.
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