I also believe that the more the playoff expands the more that is going to kill the bowl system. I know some people see that as a negative thing but I’m not among them.

Personally, I’m just fine with that. I think the bowls have long held back college football. There’s two or three that actually help college football and then there’s like 35 more that really don’t do anything for the sport one way or the other.

However, if we have learned anything through the playoff era to date it is that you can have a playoff system or a bowl system but probably not both.

The moment they implemented a four-team playoff, going to the Rose Bowl or the Sugar Bowl or the Orange Bowl no longer mattered as much as they did before because they were no longer the measuring stick for a successful season.

That feeling is only going to grow if/when the playoff expands. Hell, that feeling is probably going to grow even if the playoffs stays at four teams.

I look at bowl games the same way that I look at the newspaper industry and the butcher shop. I wish they’d all stay around forever because I’m getting older and they are vestiges of my youth. However, they are also relics of a bygone era and the sooner we accept that reality, the better off everyone will be.