That game, against arguably one of the worst teams in the nation last year with so much on the line, should have been won by the Rebels.

I don’t fear them being motivated. I fear Utah not being motivated and even that seems like a stretch, since I doubt they’ve forgotten about 2007.

Especially when you realize teams probably LOSE money on these bowl games.

While I don’t like the old era where so many 8-9 win teams were left out of a bowl games (Utah went 8-3 in ‘78, 8-2-1 in ’81 and 8-4 in ’85 and didn’t make a bowl game), we’re over saturating things.

They really do need to slash these bowl games by a lot.

They are talking about adding one next year, and I could see talks about adding another.

I can also see a number of the smaller bowls go belly up.

Last year the NCAA realized they have too many already and issued a notice to the bowls that their might not be enough teams to fill all the bowl slots.

If the maximum number of teams with a winning record over the past four years, counting at most 1 team outside FBS per year the number of bowls should be increased. If the minimum of this value plus the teams with a 6-6 record and at most 1 team outside the FBS is less than the current number of bowl slots the number of bowls should be reduced.

This would suggest that between 30 and 33 Bowl games is appropriate. There are 34 this year. I have a design in the works that would allow 42-43 bowls to be accomodated each year. This will be included as a $120 Million increase to a proposal I recieved feedback from the BCS about this summer. I plan to have this prepaired by January.

Though not explicit in the rule changes, these changes to the NCAA rules could allow the formation of a plus one.