![]() The money is there, meaning bowls aren't going away any time soon. There will still be a plethora of games, because try as we might to find more productive things to do, we'll still end up on the couch watching Ohio and Nevada duke it out in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Most experts agree that such a profitable system will expand to include eight to 16 teams, and the question becomes what happens to the bowl games then. ![]() ![]() Even with the implementation of the four-team Playoff, the prestige of the top bowl games has been maintained. And now, if you include the College Football Playoff championship, there are 39. Then there were 15 in 1980, and 25 in 2000, with plenty dying along the way. Apparently somebody made money, because by 1938 there were five bowls - the Rose, Sugar, Sun, Orange and Cotton. 1902's Rose Bowl, the first postseason game, pitted a monstrous Michigan team against an overwhelmed local, Stanford. Guided Tours of BC Place Stadium The media lounge The Premium Suite areas The team locker rooms (when available) Access onto the field providing visitors. How the SEC was formed by leaving a 23-team super conference. Other current Power Five schools that joined the Southern Conference were Duke (1928), Wake Forest (1936) and West Virginia (1950). Give Cal credit: It was the only Pac-12 team to beat a Power 5 opponent in Week 1, even if it was UNC, which ranks last in this weeks ACC power rankings. Years ago, just getting to a bowl game was a major accomplishment. Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tulane and Vanderbilt joined the Southern Conference in 1922. SEC football can therefore be mapped to show the cores and peripheries of the. (And by the way, the map to the right? That's with conference flagship USC suffering NCAA sanctions.) Geographers can map these cultural expressions and ones like them to. Plus the Pac-12 controls big metros elsewhere, like in growing Arizona and Washington. Almost all of the Pac-12 is closer to the West Coast's hotbeds than schools from other conferences are Nick Saban's coaches have to travel 2,000 miles to swipe from high school star-studded Los Angeles, but only 600 to invade longtime Big 12 stronghold Dallas. ![]() Compare that to Cali, where only a small handful of non-West Coast powers (like Florida, Notre Dame, Oklahoma. Texas is the Big 12's breadbasket, but its current recruiting chief is an SEC school, Texas A&M. Florida is split between ACC and SEC schools. Of the big three blue-chip recruiting states, California is the one that most belongs to a single conference. How is it that the Pac-12's only a step behind in quality? It's one part massive revenue, one part great coaching hires, and one part geography. So the SEC has more talent than anybody else. ![]()
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