[Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

[Mike Nolan]

> From: Aaron Wolfson <awolfson0 at gmail.com>

> The best proposal I've seen has been
> from Dan
> Wetzel<http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-playoff120208>of
> Yahoo. He suggests a 16-team tournament with home-site
> games and
> automatic bids for every conference (which IMO is the part
> that makes it
> work).

I think such a system might indeed spell the end of the bowl system as we currently know
it, but keep in mind that the bowl system as we currently know it is a relatively young
beast anyway.  In 1979 there were just 11 bowl games.  At the end of the 1990 season there 
were 19 bowl games.  At the end of the 2009 season there were 34 of them (including the BCS 
Championship game.)  And I probably watched 25 of them.  

I think you can credit ESPN (and assorted title sponsors) for much of that growth.  

It also wasn't all THAT long ago that the Big Ten only sent ONE representative to a bowl 
game and Notre Dame didn't go to any bowls at all.  
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Mike Nolan