I don't plan on watching any of them.
Know what I'd like to hear out of a bowl game?
Some graduating Senior getting a career-ending injury, falling back on his degree, and becoming a success story in spite of his athletic upbringing.
And not out of pity for his injury, either, like a car salesman or a born-again preacher. Or a coach. Or some pretty-boy politician. Or some sports-broadcast journalist.
No, I'm talking about some kind of doctor or scientist. They use their mind to better themselves and society.
When "student-athletes" get promised a free ride through college, get injured, and then become academic successes without anything to show for it on the playing field or the Athletic Department's trophy case, how do you think the Alumni Association's boosters feel?
On the other hand, maybe I feel a little pity for the dumb thugs who get injured in their final moment of glory in the bowl game that don't have the brains to have made the most of their time in college.
But I doubt it. They shouldn't really have been there in the first place, eating up resources that should have been used for education.
I wonder how foreigners perceive our educational system in that regard. I mean, how often do you hear of some international student coming here on an athletic scholarship?
For all it shovels out to the colleges for appearance fees, the NCAA is still going to make a hell of a lot of money today.