Would We Watch This? A thought experiment for bowl season

Wouldn't you want to see Devonte Boyd play in a bowl game? - Troy Babbitt-USA TODAY SportsThe Mountain West had a hand in kicking off bowl season on Saturday, providing a national audience with a pair of exciting games from Albuquerque and Orlando. This, in spite of some consternation that 5-7 teams, such as the San Jose State Spartans, made it to the postseason by unusual means (read: not winning enough).

And it got me to thinking: Is there any good reason why all of college football shouldn't blow it out to end a long campaign? More football is better than less football, after all, and August will seem to be ages away in the next two week or so. Would we kid ourselves into believing we…