... too many bowl games in college football today. You may agree or disagree, but you have to admit with me, the bowl qualifications are too watered down.

In 1923, there was one bowl game, the “Grand daddy of them all” (as Jim Simpson would say) the Rose Bowl. It was the only “bowl” game in the country until the 1930’s. By 1940, the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Sun Bowl, and Hawaii Bowl were added.

When I was just a child of 10 in 1960, there were eight bowls. There were only four major bowls: Rose, Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowls.  They still had ties to conferences back in the old days.

The Pac-10 and the Big Ten winners played in the Rose Bowl. The Cotton Bowl always featured the Southwest Conference (later ...

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