[Goose]

Games like  the Orange Bowl today will sooner  (not later) kill the bowl games. FSU just didn't show up, both literally (the opt-outs) and figuratively.  The Ohio St. team that played Missouri  also wasn't the team that won all those games in the B1G, but then again, the Notre Dame that played Oregon State was missing some "important" players too. OTOH, Oregon State was missing both players and their coach. The attraction of these games is to see the "best", and when all those players opt-out the audience isn't getting anywhere near the "best" and will opt out too. In no world that I live in will people pay top dollar for these hot messes. It may take a couple of years, but after repeated examples of incompetence due to missing personnel, nobody will watch.

[Goose]

Games like  the Orange Bowl today will sooner  (not later) kill the bowl games. FSU just didn't show up, both literally (the opt-outs) and figuratively.  The Ohio St. team that played Missouri  also wasn't the team that won all those games in the B1G, but then again, the Notre Dame that played Oregon State was missing some "important" players too. OTOH, Oregon State was missing both players and their coach. The attraction of these games is to see the "best", and when all those players opt-out the audience isn't getting anywhere near the "best" and will opt out too. In no world that I live in will people pay top dollar for these hot messes. It may take a couple of years, but after repeated examples of incompetence due to missing personnel, nobody will watch.