Texas just finished a disappointing 5-7 for the second straight season, fired its coach – and is being viewed as a bowl eligible team.
Welcome to post-season college football, where winning isn’t everything, it isn’t even a requirement.
80 teams will play in 41 bowl games (including the 3-game playoff system), and it is entirely possible that, like last year, a number teams with losing records will play. As is everything else attached to the sport, money, specifically TV money, drove the inflationary expansion over the past several decades.
In the early 20th Century communities in the southern and western part of the U.