I think we’re being a little selfish

Have you been reading or watching coverage of the bowl season? If you have, no doubt, you have heard relentless bitching about how many bowls there are, and how they aren’t important and that they are being forced to watch them. To this I say, shut up.
First of all, it’s football. Don’t you like football? Especially when it involves evenly matched teams on neutral fields? No? You only like it when the elite teams play in a tournament to crown national champions? Well, then it sounds like you like tournaments more than you like football. Good gravy, people, it’s still football in these bowl games. If you would look past the fact that it was Northwestern and Auburn or Idaho and Bowling Green, you would have caught some pretty good games.
And don’t tell me these games shouldn’t be played. Obviously, Bowling Green (or any MAC team for that matter) wasn’t going to be playing for a national title this year anyways, so if their bowl game didn’t matter, neither did their regular season. Why bother playing at all?
Why can’t the teams that aren’t playing in a national title play one extra game, if their entire season was pointless to begin with? Think about it. 95% of the players in the NCAA will not play another game after college. These are kids who have been playing since they were children, started practicing in high school all through the summer, went through 2 a days all the way through college, and you are telling them they can’t have the opportunity to play one last game? A reward for their hard work? Even if that reward is just a couple more weeks of work and a trip to Mobile to play another game?
The preponderance of bowl games is not preventing a tournament. If you are just throwing 8 teams in the tournament (or as the Victoria Times constantly proposes, 12), there are still 112 (108) teams that aren’t participating in said tournament. If anything, in the meantime,we should go back to making New Years Day the pinnacle of college football, with several of the top bowls on that day. Sure, keep the Championship later, but put all the others before the New Year. It might give the perception of some weight to the New Years Day games again. But please, don’t tell me these games don’t matter. And don’t complain about there being more football.