In your face, purists! 5-7 bowl teams get last laugh, go 3-0

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Armour: Count the ways college bowl system is broken

 

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Nancy Armour , USA TODAY Sports 6:52 p.m. EST December 7, 2015

It’s so bad, in fact, that more than a dozen teams with records of .500 or below “earned” the privilege of playing in the postseason. Of those, three are 5-7. But hey, they were selected based on their Academic Progress Rate, so that makes it all OK.

One of the arguments against the creation and now expansion of the College Football Playoff is that it would come at the expense of the other bowls. That a playoff would gut the time-honored traditions fans have come to know and love.

Please. The bowl system and everyone connected with it sold their souls long ago, making this year’s debacle as inevitable as it is embarrassing.

 

In your face, purists! 5-7 bowl teams get last laugh, go 3-0

 

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Dec 29, 2015 at 5:51a ET

Remember when all those college football purists screamed from the rooftops when a trio of 5-7 teams were extended -- and accepted -- bids to bowl games?